‘Elite’ Star Julian Ortega Dead at 41 After Collapsing on Beach: Reports

Actor Julian Ortega has reportedly died after collapsing on a beach.

The actor, best known for appearing on Netflix’s Elite , went into cardiac arrest in front of a crowd of onlookers at Zahora Beach in Barbate, Spain on Sunday, August 25, according to The Sun .

Ortega was pronounced dead after paramedics attempted to revive him for 30 minutes. He was 41 years old.

Actress Silvia Marso commemorated Ortega on social media , calling him “a tremendous actor and a colleague of integrity, honesty and as good a person as his parents Gloria Muñoz and Jose Antonio Ortega.”

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Marso added, “I can’t even imagine how these parents, colleagues, so beloved in the profession, are. How horrible… I can’t take it in. Absolute sadness.”

Ortega played the manager of the La Cabana restaurant on six episodes of Elite in 2018.

More recently, he appeared on Spanish television shows including 4 estrellas , The Countryside , Untameable , Velvet , Nunc et in Hora and Caronte .

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