Beloved actor Bruce MacVittie, best known for his roles in “The Sopranos” and “Sex and the City,” has died. He was 65.
MacVittie died in a Manhattan hospital on Saturday, his wife, Carol Ochs, confirmed to the New York Times on Thursday.
No cause of death was disclosed.
Veteran character actor Bruce MacVittie has died at age 65. He is seen here playing Detective Hartigan in Netflix’s “When They See Us.”Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix
MacVittie became widely recognized for his role as Danny Scalercio on “The Sopranos,” as well as his recurring guest appearances on “Law & Order” and “As The World Turns.”
His career kickstarted on broadway, working as Al Pacino’s understudy in the 1983 production “American Buffalo.” He later took over the lead role.
MacVittie’s impressive credits span across many well-known shows, including guest roles in “Miami Vice,” “Sex and the City,” “Oz,” “Blue Bloods,” “Chicago Med,” and “The Deuce.”
The actor, who hailed from Providence, RI, also dabbled in films, appearing in “Stonewall,” “Hannibal,” and “Brooklyn’s Finest.”
Bruce MacVittie plays Danny Scalercio in “The Sopranos.”brucemacvittie.com
One of his final roles was starring as Detective Hartigan in the Emmy Award-winning Netflix limited series, “When They See Us.”
Tributes poured in after news of MacVittie’s death came to light.
I met the great Bruce MacVittie shortly after this. We’ve worked together often. He was a beautiful, honest actor and man. The real deal. Sending love to his friends and family. https://t.co/bP07qWyEaj
“I loved Bruce MacVittie,” Pacino, 82, told the New York Times. “His performances were always glistening and crackling; a heart and a joy to watch. He was the embodiment of the struggling actor in New York City, and he made it work. We will miss him.”
“Sex and the City” and “And Just Like That” star Evan Handler, who plays Charlotte York’s husband Harry Goldenblatt in the hit HBO shows, paid tribute to his former co-star.
“I met Bruce MacVittie more than forty years ago. We worked and played together repeatedly, as actors, and as friends, throughout the ensuing decades,” he wrote in a tweet.
In a follow-up tweet, Handler remembered how MacVittie was by his side during his “life-threatening illness” in the ’80s.
“The unflinching presence he granted anyone in need, no matter how dire or terrifying their circumstances,” he wrote. “Please let your friends know you love them, and let them know you’re as available as Bruce always was.”
Bruce MacVittie guest-starred on “Law & Order” multiple times between 1991 and 2006. He is seen here playing Bill Parker — opposite the late Jerry Orbach — in an episode from 2003.brucemacvittie.com
“Law & Order” franchise producer, Warren Leight, paid tribute to the late actor on Twitter.
“We’ve worked together often. He was a beautiful, honest actor and man. The real deal,” he wrote.
Bruce is survived by his wife, and their daughter Sophia Oliva Ochs MacVittie.
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“Shenanigans,” the 35-year-old captioned the snap on May 16, as she posed in between her former Laguna Beach co-stars in Nashville, Tenn.
Fans were quick to point out that both Jason, 35, and Stephen, 36, famously dated Kristin’s on-screen high-school nemesis Lauren“L.C.” Conrad, who later went on to star in the spin-off series The Hills. After Lauren left the L.A.-based show halfway through its fifth season, she was subsequently replaced by Kristin through The Hills‘ sixth and final season in 2010.
“Lauren Conrad likes this,” commented one fan, while another joked, “I just know LC is punching air because the queen of laguna is back.”
Jason posted the same pic on his own Instagram, account with the cheeky caption, “up to no good….”
The old MTV crew came back together for the soon-to-be-launched Laguna Beach rewatch podcast, Back to the Beach With Kristin and Stephen. According to Variety, Dear Media ordered 40 episodes featuring theVery Cavallari star and One Tree Hill alum—who also dated as teens—as they revisit the series, which ran for three seasons from September 2004 until November 2006.
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The podcast is slated to premiere this summer.
“Eighteen years later and we’re finally ready to revisit Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County,” Kristin told Variety on May 2. “Stephen and I can’t wait to take listeners behind the scenes of what really went down, how it impacted us, and to relive those high-school days—the good, the bad and the ugly.”
Keep scrolling to see what else the former stars of Laguna Beach and The Hills have been up to recently.
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Lauren Conrad
Literal LOL at Teen Vogue‘s Lisa Love telling Lauren, “You’ll always be known as the girl who didn’t go to Paris.” (A line actually lifted from Vogue‘s Anna Wintour, a 2019 Hills deep dive revealed.) More than a decade after that (admittedly questionable) decision and her subsequent split from Jason Wahler, LC has earned a few more laudatory descriptors: New York Times best-selling author; co-founder of The Little Market, with a mission to empower female artisans worldwide; and, of course, fashion designer, her Kohl’s Line LC Lauren Conrad just the start of her now wide-ranging lifestyle empire. Now long past fights outside Les Deux, she married Something Corporate rocker and law school grad William Tell in a 2014 Pinterest wedding of our dreams. In 2019, their second son, Charlie Wolf Tell, joined older brother Liam James Tell.
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Kristin Cavallari
The star of E!’s Very Cavallari and everyone’s favorite bad girl went from being a (well-compensated) s–t-stirrer to full-on boss with her successful lifestyle brand, Uncommon James opening its second brick-and-mortar location in Chicago last fall. Rounding out her growing empire: a Chinese Laundry shoe line and two cookbooks, with True Comfort coming out Sept. 29, a little more than two years after New York Times best-seller, True Roots.
Teammates for 10 years, she and retired NFL quarterback Jay Cutler welcomed sons Camden Jack Cutler and Jaxon Wyatt Cutler and daughter Saylor James Cutler before splitting in April 2020.
One of the more surprising reinventions saw The Hills‘ resident villains transform into dedicated parents to 2-year-old Gunner Stone Pratt, entirely self-aware of their place in the annals of reality television. Following an admittedly rocky season that saw them take their marital problems (either real or contrived for headlines) to any show that would have them—Celebrity Big Brother (UK version), I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here, Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars—they successfully lobbied to make Speidi famous again, spearheading 2019’s The Hills: New Beginnings reboot. “Reality TV is kind of a career for Spencer and I at this point,” Heidi explained to Vogue. Though, having learned from their years of overspending, they also have a few side hustles thanks to their podcast and his Pratt Daddy crystal business.
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Lo Bosworth
Truthfully, LC’s BFF would prefer to be excluded from this narrative. When an exec gauged her interest in returning to The Hills, “I was like, ‘F–k no!'” she recalled on a 2018 episode of her Lady Lovin’ podcast. “I don’t want any association with any of those people. The dissociation from all those people is what I’m hungry for.” Which, to be fair, sometimes that happens when you change careers. Now based in NYC, The International Culinary Center grad and The Lo-Down author founded Love Wellness, a line of personal care products for women, in 2016. In 2020, she told E! News, “I live such a different life now than I did 10 years ago.”
In March 2021, Lo shocked fans when she revealed on Instagram that she had secretly suffered a traumatic brain injury in an accident two years prior.
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Brody Jenner
His original stint on The Hills saw him juggling purported romances with both Lauren and Kristin and set the tone for the interest in his love life that would continue even after he stepped off camera to lean into his work as a DJ. (His 2015 E! series Sex With Brody may not have helped things.) Though it appeared he’d found his forever when he wed now-Hills costar Kaitlynn Carter in a 2018 Indonesian ceremony, the two ended their romance in 2019. He’s gone on to date TikTok star Daisy Keech, model Josie Canseco and Briana Jungwirth—Louis Tomlinson‘s ex.
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Audrina Patridge
A reality TV pro at this point, Lauren and Heidi’s camera-ready neighbor followed up her Hills gig with a 2010 spin through the Dancing With the Stars ballroom, her own VH1 series, Audrina and a short-lived hosting stint on NBC’s traveling series 1st Look. Now back on MTV with Speidi, Brody, et. al, she also dove into the world of designing with her Prey Swim line. And while she’s dated after her messy divorce from BMX biker Corey Bohan, revisiting an old romance with Ryan Cabrera and sharing an entirely unsuccessful dinner date with Justin Bobby Brescia, her number one these days is daughter Kirra Max Bohan.
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Whitney Port
The girl who did go to Paris (except, not really, as she revealed to Vogue) enjoyed a brief stint in The City in 2008 before heading back to Los Angeles, with future husband Tim Rosenman, an associate producer on her NYC-based spinoff, in tow. A judge on the eighth cycle of Britain & Ireland’s Next Top Model, she now juggles her Love, Whit line with Rent the Runway and With Whit podcast alongside her return to The Hills and her son SonnySanford Rosenman.
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Stephen Colletti
When he’s not giving us new material for our LC-Kristen-Stephen love triangle fan fic, Laguna’s resident heartthrob is focused on building a pretty solid acting career. He was a recurring castmember on the CW’s One Tree Hill for five seasons and starred as Taylor Swift‘s love interest in her “White Horse” music video. He also had a temporary gig as an MTV VJ on Total Request Live (the original, not the reboot). In 2018m he appeared in the TV movie Hometown Christmas. In January 2021, he and OTH co-star James Laffertydebuted a Hulu series, Everyone Is Doing Great.
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Jessica Smith
KCav’s Laguna Beach pal has largely stayed away from reality television after her run on the MTV show ended. Following a brief return to notoriety, thanks to a 2007 DUI arrest, she settled into a quiet life in Texas with her husband, Michael Evans, “the most kind, patient, strong, amazing, loving and ridiculously handsome human I’ve ever met,” as she put it on Instagram, and their four children. Though she has her own blog and Amazon shop, mostly, she jokes on Insta, she’s “just trying not to lose a kid.”
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Jason Wahler
The resident bad boy of Laguna Beach and The Hills ran into nothing but trouble after his time on the reality series: drugs, DUIs, fights, arrests…you name it. It wasn’t until he appeared on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. DrewPinksy that he finally cleaned up. Wahler went on to marry girlfriend Ashley Slack, a relationship he claims is his first sober one, and he and “the most beautiful, loving, kind and caring woman I know” welcomed daughter Delilah Ray in August 2017. In February 2021, the couple revealed they are expecting their second child.
The founder and owner of Widespread Recovery, he continues to be open about his struggles, both on The Hills: New Beginnings and his YouTube series, JAWS Diaries with Jason & Ashley Wahler.
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Stephanie Pratt
Originally brought in to face off with Lauren, she befriended her instead, leading to seemingly unending drama between Stephanie and brother Spencer. Following years across the pond appearing on UK reality fare such as Celebrity Big Brother and Made inChelsea—and one 2015 memoir detailing her struggles with bulimia, crystal meth and staying out of trouble—she headed home to The Hills….to resume stirring up drama. After a scathing takedown of her castmates (she labeled sister-in-law Heidi “evil” and Audrina “crazy”), Stephanie announced she won’t be returning for season two.
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Casey Reinhardt
Though she wasn’t an original castmember of Laguna Beach, her arrival to the reality series was a memorable one. Since then, Casey launched a successful foray into the world of confections by opening Casey’s Cupcakes in Orange County. She even won Food Network’s Cupcake Wars in 2011. Her home life, meanwhile, is just as sweet. Wed to Sean Brown (a relative of the late Nicole Brown Simpson) since August 2015, they share daughter Kensington Kelly Brown and son Sean Brown Jr.
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Dieter Schmitz
Lauren and Stephen’s bestie left the Beach behind for his future in hospitality and hotel management, moving first to New York and, in 2019, to Washington, D.C. where he works as general manager of the Lore Group, leading the February opening of Riggs Washington DC. He’s still tight with his high school crew, though, Lauren, “proud groomsman” Stephen, Trey Phillips, and Loren Polster turning out for his 2016 Monterey, Calif. wedding to Isabell Hiebl. The pair welcomed their first child, son Nico Josef Schmitz, in September 2018.
Lukas Gage LOVES Working With Penn Badgley (& Why That Scares Him)
No sleuthing needed to step into your middle school shoes.
Earlier this month, Penn Badgley announced a new podcast, and now it’s almost here. He shared in a tweet on May 16 that Podcrushed will be out May 18, and he’ll be the one narrating listener-submitted stories from everyone’s most awkward stage in life: middle school.
“Coming-of-age stories from that crushing time we call middle-school in the US (11-14ish),” he wrote in the tweet. “I narrate stories submitted by you & interview guests with my two co-hosts who are chill former teachers.”
What does Penn know about middle school? Well, nothing. The You star admitted in a teaser he posted May 16 that he is a “middle school dropout.” Instead, he spent his pre-teen life taking on Hollywood. Penn will be accompanied by Nava Kavelin, a former middle school director, and Sophie Ansari, a former fifth grade teacher, for the weekly podcast with SiriusXM’s Stitcher.
The 35-year-old actor will narrate embarrassing, sad and shocking middle school stories.
“The butterflies in my stomach are turning into, I don’t know,” Penn narrated in the teaser. “But suddenly I feel hot and wet and… No, no, no, no, no. Am I peeing?”
In a joint statement from the three hosts, they wrote, “Podcrushed began as a way to dig into people’s most awkward and funny moments in middle school, in order to highlight the universality of getting crushed in some way.”
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“But as stories started rolling in from all over the world, the humanity of it all floored us—there weren’t only stories of heartbreak, humiliation and delicious comeuppance, but also stories exploring confusion, identity, and loss,” they continued. “What the show makes clear is that these experiences unite us all, and we can’t wait for you to hear it.”