A Hollywood-based Kenyan actor has passed on. Odera Owiso collapsed on Friday while rehearsing on stage in Kentucky, USA.
The actor had flown from Los Angeles Santa Monica where he lives. Efforts to resuscitate him failed and he was pronounced dead a few minutes later.
Owiso had spent the last week acting on location in Washington DC in a new film Measure Plus Dido.
Born to Kenyan parents in Khartoum, Sudan and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, Owiso Odera is a Los Angeles based actor whose television credits include Blue Bloods Numb3rs, The Unit, Flash Forward. Fans of the The Originals will remember him as Baba Tunde.
Source: Nairobinews.nation.co.ke