Mark Margolis, best known for portraying Hector Salamanca in AMC’s “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” has died at the age of 83.
Margolis passed away Thursday at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City with his wife Jacqueline and only child Morgan at his bedside following a short illness. His son Morgan Margolis, who is the CEO of Knitting Factory Entertainment, was the one to announce the news.
A Philadelphia native born in 1939, Margolis started as a student of Temple University before moving to New York City to study acting. He counted the Actors Studio’s Stella Adler, the Group Theatre’s Lee Strasberg and the actor Barbara Loden among his teachers. Under Adler, Margolis began his theatrical career, which included starring in “Infidel Caesar,” a Broadway show based on Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.”
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