Anthony Guidera, an actor and mannequin who performed pilots for Michael Bay in The Rock and Armageddon and shared a memorable kiss with Natasha Henstridge in Species, has died. He was 65.
Guidera died Saturday in a Los Angeles-area hospital, his spouse, Valarie, told TMZ. He was taken off life help after he had suffered a coronary heart challenge at their house on Could 11, she mentioned.
The hunky Guidera additionally appeared in Scott Winant’s ’Til There Was You (1997) and Kevin Costner’s The Postman (1997) and portrayed a gun vendor in Charles Burnett’s The Annihilation of Fish (1999).
And on tv, he confirmed up on all the things from Renegade, Baywatch, Star Trek: Deep House 9, Purple Shoe Diaries and Hope & Gloria to Nash Bridges, Acapulco H.E.A.T., Angel, ER and, on a 2005 episode for his final credit score, L.A. Dicks.
Within the sci-fi horror movie Species (1995), directed by Roger Donaldson, Guidera’s character doesn’t know Henstridge’s Sil is an alien/human hybrid organism when he forces her to kiss him — to disastrous results.
The second was acknowledged because the yr’s greatest kiss on the 1996 MTV Film Awards.
“This kiss between alien man-eater Natasha Henstridge and Anthony Guidera in Species is scary-good — emphasis on the scary,” Michelle Darrisaw wrote in a put up for Oprah Every day. “It’s not every day that puckering up results in an exploding head.”
Born in San Francisco on Oct. 18, 1960, Guidera moved to Paris and traveled around the globe for a couple of decade whereas making commercials and modeling underneath the identify James Guidera.
He carried out in performs in Paris, studied with Robert Lewis at The Actors Studio in New York and landed his first onscreen position as a bodyguard in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Half III (1990), engaged on that movie for 5 months.
