{"id":799047,"date":"2026-07-13T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799047\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:29:09","slug":"josh-grisetti-the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-something-rotten-star-dies-at-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799047\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Grisetti, &#8216;The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,&#8217; &#8216;Something Rotten!&#8217; star, dies at 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American actor Josh Grisetti, who starred on theater stages and appeared in the fifth season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, died by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/suicide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">suicide<\/a> on Friday. He was 44.<\/p>\n<p>His death was announced on Instagram on Sunday by his close friend and Something Rotten! co-star, actor Rob McClure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cIt is with a shattered heart that I share that the brilliant Josh Grisetti took his own life on Friday. I\u2019m not ready to even attempt to understand,\u201d McClure wrote. \u201cMy heart is with his wife and family as they try to deal with the reality of this. Some of my all-time favorite memories were by this man\u2019s side&#8230; Just a cataclysmic loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Grisetti\u2019s agent, Rick Ferrari, said, \u201cI am completely devastated. That\u2019s all I can say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grisetti was born in Washington in December 1981. He studied drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and later trained in musical theater at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/article-901524\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boston<\/a> Conservatory.<\/p>\n<p>He began his career in regional productions before appearing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/must\/mustsee\/article-901133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">musicals<\/a> Diner, It Shoulda Been You, and Something Rotten!. His role in the latter became one of his best-known performances and earned him two Drama Desk Award nominations.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside his theater work, Grisetti also appeared in film and television. In 2007, he appeared in the sitcom The Knights of Prosperity and later acted in the films The Immigrant and The Namesake. His most prominent television role was as Ralph Emerson in the fifth and final season of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/the-marvelous-mrs-maisel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel<\/a>, which aired in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American actor Josh Grisetti, who starred on theater stages and appeared in the fifth season of The Marvelous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9858,49,48,428,75,23115,13511,281348],"class_list":["post-799047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-death","tag-entertainment","tag-musical","tag-suicide","tag-the-marvelous-mrs-maisel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}