Actor Mike Heslin, whose most prominent role came on Taylor Sheridan’s Lioness, has died after an unexpected cardiac event and a week-long hospitalization. He was 30. The news was announced by his husband, Nicolas James Wilson.
Heslin appeared as Polo on two episodes of Lioness, Season 1. He also had a part in Lifetime’s The Holiday Proposal Plan last year as well as on Younger in 2016.
Wilson shared the news on his social media, where he goes by Scotty Dynamo.
“Michael was young, in perfect health, and the doctors have no explanation for what happened,” wrote Wilson. He then revealed the duo, married a little under a year, had been planning a family.
“You always told me that you felt like you were meant to be a dad, and I couldn’t agree more. You would be he world’s most perfect father.”
He ended with, “in the words of Shania Twain: I’ll love you ‘forever and for always.’ “
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