This Is Us Actor Ron Cephas Jones Dies  

Aug 20, 2023, 09:10 IST

Pragati Awasthi

Ron Cephas Jones, best known for playing William Hill in the Emmy-winning drama This Is Us, has died. He was 66. 

His representative has confirmed that Cephas passed away due to a ‘long-standing pulmonary’ issue. 

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Ron earned four Emmy nominations and won two — first in 2018, and the second in 2020 — in the outstanding guest actor in a drama series category. 

The actor is survived by his only daughter Jasmine. In 2020, Jasmine and Ron became the first father-daughter duo ever to win Emmys in the same year. Jasmine won Emmy for her performance in #FreeRayshawn. 

In a 2021 interview with The New York Times, Jonas shared his health battle with the world, revealing that he has an obstructive pulmonary disease and underwent a double lung transplant in 2020. 

Apart from This Is Us, Jones has been part of several television shows like the Truth Be Told, Law & Order: Organized Crime, Looking for Alaska and others. 

Born on January 8, 1957, in New Jersey, Jones was first meant to study jazz, but later he switched to theatre. 

After graduating from Ramapo College, he moved to Los Angeles, where he drove a bus for the next four year

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