{"id":300619,"date":"2026-02-20T07:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300619\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:27:07","slug":"eric-dane-euphoria-and-greys-anatomy-star-has-died-at-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300619\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Dane,\u00a0‘Euphoria’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’\u00a0Star, Has Died at 53"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tVeteran actor Eric Dane<\/a>, who starred as the unforgettable Dr. Mark Sloan \u2014 a.k.a. McSteamy\u00a0\u2014 in\u00a0Grey\u2019s Anatomy and the hit HBO drama Euphoria<\/a>, died on Thursday. He was 53. News of his death arrives 10 months after he shared his diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis\u00a0(ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s Disease, with the public.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWith heavy hearts, we share that Eric Dane passed on Thursday afternoon following a courageous battle with ALS,\u201d read a statement from the actor\u2019s family, per People<\/a>. \u201cHe spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife, and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center of his world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThroughout his journey with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocate for awareness and research, determined to make a difference for others facing the same fight,\u201d his family added. \u201cHe will be deeply missed, and lovingly\u00a0remembered always. Eric adored his fans and is forever grateful for the outpouring\u00a0of love and support he\u2019s received.\u00a0The family has asked for privacy as they navigate this impossible time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn April of last year, Dane shared that he was diagnosed with ALS, a rare degenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. When appearing on television and social media, Dane would often share the challenges of living with the disease and advocate for awareness and research into ALS.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI will never forget those three letters,\u201d he told Diane Sawyer on\u00a0Good Morning America<\/a> when discussing how his life changed learning of the diagnosis. \u201cIt\u2019s on me the second I wake up. It\u2019s not a dream.\u201d At the time, he said his right side had stopped functioning while his left side was still working. \u201cI\u2019m fighting as much as I can. There\u2019s so much about it that\u2019s out of my control,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tEric William Dane was born on Nov. 8, 1972, in San Francisco, California. His father died of a gunshot wound when Dane was seven years old. \u201cHe was a Navy man and ended up becoming an architect and interior designer. He was a troubled soul,\u201d the actor told Gulf Times <\/a>in 2014.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAn athlete in high school, Dane initially had no intention of acting. \u201cI was a water polo player in high school and my season was short and I ended up getting roped into playing Joe Keller in\u00a0All My Sons,\u201d he told the publication. \u201cAnd I fell in love with it. I was, like, this is the greatest feeling ever!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe moved to Los Angeles in 1993 and struggled for several years, taking on film and television roles on\u00a0Gideon\u2019s Crossing,\u00a0Charmed, Saved By the Bell, Married With Children,\u00a0and\u00a0X-Men: the Last Stand. In 2006, he landed his career-making role as the handsome plastic surgeon Dr. Mark Sloan in\u00a0the\u00a0ABC\u00a0medical drama\u00a0Grey\u2019s Anatomy.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was a character he fully embraced. \u201cI felt like I had an artistic obligation to not shy away from that part of the character. And to a degree, there\u2019s a lot of me in that guy,\u201d he told Glamour<\/a> in 2019. \u201cBut I think at the end of the day, you tend to give people what they\u2019re asking for, because it\u2019s the path of least resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter leaving the show in 2012, Dane would go on to star as a Naval commander in the dystopian suspense series The Last Ship\u00a0for five seasons before finding his way to Euphoria. The HBO teenage drama debuted in 2019 and among its brilliant cast, Dane delivered one of the most menacing portrayals as the father of Nate Jacobs, played by Jacob Elordi.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his 2014 Gulf Times interview, Dane elaborated on his \u201clove-hate\u201d relationship with acting. \u201cWhen I love it, I love it more than anything,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd when I\u2019m not feeling it, I have a deep disdain for it. I don\u2019t know if I can articulate exactly why, but I think with anything there\u2019s a balance, and you can\u2019t have an intense amount of love for something if you don\u2019t have the polar opposite of that for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tLast October, Dane\u00a0revealed that he had to\u00a0miss a planned appearance at the Emmy Awards\u00a0<\/a>because of a head injury tied to his ALS diagnosis. The actor was set to present an Emmy alongside his old\u00a0Grey\u2019s\u00a0co-star Jesse Williams, but had to pull out at the last minute.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the injury prevented Dane from attending the ceremony, it didn\u2019t stop him from flying to Washington, D.C., a couple of days later to meet with lawmakers and advocate for more funding for ALS research. (There is still no cure for the disease, nor is it fully understood what causes ALS.)<\/p>\n

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\n\tOf taking on his role as an advocate, especially when he has the resources to access certain types of care not available to all with ALS, Dane told\u00a0The Washington Post, \u201cI have been an open book about certain things in my life. This is something I felt compelled to share with people. I don\u2019t really have a dog in the fight, per se, when it comes to worrying about what people are going to think about me. This is more of a: \u2018How can I help? How can I be of some service?\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran actor Eric Dane, who starred as the unforgettable Dr. Mark Sloan \u2014 a.k.a. McSteamy\u00a0\u2014 in\u00a0Grey\u2019s Anatomy and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,56441,56442,85,46,5365],"class_list":["post-300619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-eric-dane","tag-euphoria","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}