Todd’s warm personality and dedication to his craft endeared him to colleagues and fans alike.
Rel Dowdell, the director of Film Studies at Hampton University, who directed it in 2012 Changing the gamereleased a statement saying, “Tony was a masterful actor who was truly chameleonic; he prepared for each role with the utmost meticulousness. He was truly one of a kind.”
Virginia Madsen, Todd’s co-star in the first Candyman film, mourned the actor’s death in a video on her Instagram account.
She said: “My beloved. May you rest in power, sweet to the sweet in heaven. The great actor Tony Todd has left us and is now an angel. As he was in life. More later, but I can’t do that right now. love you.”
In the video she called Todd ‘my lover’ Candyman” and thanked fans for their “kind wishes”.
Todd is survived by his wife Fatima and their two children, Alex and Ariana.
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