Jonathan Pienaar, the prolific South African star of films like Blood Diamond and series like Cape Town, has died at the age 63.\n<\/p>\n
Pienaar’s ex-wife, the dancer Rosana Maya, confirmed his death on Nov. 10 with a post to her official Facebook. Over a photo depicting Pienaar clad in leather in medium close-up, Maya wrote, “Most beautiful man, unique soul\u2026 like your wolves, you gave so much for so little\u2026 the world is a lesser place without you in it, my sadness too deep. Fly with angels my love.”\n<\/p>\n
Jonathan Pienaar in ‘The Three Investigators and the Secret of Terror Castle’.<\/p>\n
Buena Vista International\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
Maya confirmed to the South African news site News24<\/a> on the same day that Pienaar died at his home in the Auckland Park neighborhood of Johannesburg. She noted that the actor’s health had been “deteriorating” as of late, stating that his death was the result of “heart failure.”\n<\/p>\n “I had a nurse here looking after him, and she said that she went in to see him and he said, ‘Where am I?’ and fell asleep again. When the nurse went to give him his medication, he passed on,” she shared.\n<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our\u00a0EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n Pienaar was born on Sept. 16, 1962. After studying drama at and studied drama at Pretoria’s Tshwane University of Technology, previously known as Technikon Pretoria, he leaped from local stage roles to national screen roles, to turns in international films and series.<\/p>\n