{"id":635073,"date":"2026-04-27T23:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635073\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:51:14","slug":"menace-ii-society-actor-samuel-monroe-jr-on-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635073\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Menace II Society’ Actor Samuel Monroe Jr. on Life Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Menace II Society’ Actor
\n Samuel Monroe Jr. Fighting For His Life in Hospital<\/p>\n

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\n April 27, 2026
\n 9:26 AM PDT
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\n April 27, 2026
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12:51 PM PT — The family of Samuel Monroe Jr. has posted a GoFundMe <\/a>to help with his considerable medical bills. The post says in part … “Every donation, no matter the size, will help ease the burden on Samuel\u2019s family and ensure that Kingston and Brooklynn have the support they need while their father fights for his life.”<\/p>\n

Samuel Monroe Jr., best known for his work in the ’90s classic film “Menace II Society,” has been hospitalized … and the situation is serious.<\/p>\n

Family tells TMZ … the actor is on life support in a SoCal hospital for the past three days — and he’s battling meningitis. As for the prognosis, we’re told it’s unclear, and the family is getting daily updates.<\/p>\n

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Samuel’s mother posted about the situation on Facebook<\/a>, saying in part … “God don\u2019t make no mistakes, but he is gracious, and I am humbly asking for his mercy and grace for Sam. I love you, son, to the moon and back 100 times.”<\/p>\n

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The 52-year-old actor has appeared in a slew of films and TV shows, including “Tales from the Hood,” “Set It Off,” “The Players Club,” “Out All Night” and “NYPD Blue.” Samuel also appeared in “Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood,” the Wayans Brothers’ spoof of 1990s L.A.-based crime dramas.<\/p>\n

Get well soon, Samuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Menace II Society’ Actor Samuel Monroe Jr. Fighting For His Life in Hospital Published April 27, 2026 9:26…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-635073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}