DEATH ALAN ARKIN. American actor Alan Arkin, best known for his role in Little Miss Sunshine, has died aged 89.
Hollywood is in mourning. Alan Arkin, an American actor who had a 70-year career, died Thursday, June 29, 2023 at his residence in Carlsbad, California. The comedian was 89 years old. It was his two sons who announced his death to People magazine, without giving further details on the causes of death of the octogenarian.
Alan Arkin is best known in France for his role in the independent comedy Little Miss Sunshine, released in 2007. For the role of the grandfather of this dysfunctional family who goes on a road trip, he won the Oscar for best actor in a supporting role. We had also seen him in the films Argo, The Russians Are Coming or The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, for which he was also nominated for an Oscar. Alan Arkin was also more recently nominated for an Emmy Award for his role in the Netflix series The Kominsky Method.
Born March 26, 1934, Alan Arkin began his acting career on stage in Chicago. He made his Broadway debut in the play From the Second City in 1961, before winning a Tony Award two years later for his role in Enter Laughing. He also had a career on the small screen in a few series and TV movies.
He made a name for himself in the 1960s with the films The Russians Are Coming (1966) and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968). For these two performances, he won Oscar nominations, without leaving with the famous statuette. If he is less noticed thereafter, he nevertheless appears in the cast of films well known to the public, such as Edward Scissorhands and Welcome to Gattaca.
Alan Arkin returned to the limelight in the 2000s, first by integrating the cast of the Central Court series. Then, the release of the independent film Little Miss Sunshine allowed him to gain unprecedented fame. Thanks to his performance as a grandfather addicted to heroin, he won the Oscar for best actor in a supporting role. Subsequently, we could see him in the films Max the threat, Marley and me, Sunshine cleaning or even The private lives of Pippa Lee. From 2018 to 2019, he starred in both seasons of The Kominsky Method opposite Michael Douglas.
Alan Arkin was married three times: in 1955, he married Jeremy Taffe, with whom he had two children: Adam Arkin and Matthew Arkin. After their separation, he married Barbara Dana in 1964. Since 1996, he was married to Suzanne Newlander, with whom he lived in Carlsbad, California.
