Francisco San Martin, an actor who appeared on the soap operas “Days of Our Lives” and “The Bold and the Beautiful, ” has died in Los Angeles.
The artist, who also had a visitor stay on the CW movie “Jane the Virgin, ” was pronounced dead Thursday by the Los Angeles County medical examiner. San Martin died at his Los Angeles home and his cause of death was ruled murder by “ligature hanging, ” according to the coroner’s information. He was 39.
San Martin was born in Mallorca, Spain, and raised in Montana , Forbes reported. He returned to Spain with his home and built as a teenager, going on to appear on level, in picture and on TV that before making his way back to the United States.
The professional originated the position of Dario Hernandez— a petty thief who comes to town to evaluate a cold case murder — on “Days of Our Lives, ” which moved to streaming on Peacock in 2022. San Martin played Dario for five times in 2011. His episode ended with his figure moving to Argentina, and the position was cast in 2016.
In 2017, San Martin played Mateo, a employee hired to lure Quinn Fuller on CBS ’ “The Bold and the Beautiful. ” His different funds that year was for playing movie star Fabian Regalo del Cielo, who courts Gina Rodriguez’s eponymous character in “Jane the Virgin. ” Due to that, he had a small part in the 2013 Liberace film “Behind the Candelabra. ”
San Martin’s suicide is the latest among shampoo musical stars. In 2023, “The Young and the Restless ” and “General Hospital ” actor Billy Miller died at years 43 after he “surrendered his existence ” to manic depression, his family said. Next January, Alec Musser of “All My Children” died by suicide at 50 and Robyn Bernard, who played Terry Brock on “General Hospital ” in the 1980s , was found dead in March in an open niche in Riverside County at age 64.
In October , Ron Hale, who played Mike Corbin on “General Hospital” and Dr. Rodger Coleridge on “Ryan’s Hope, ” died at 78. Next year , Leslie Charleson, who long played Monica Quartermaine on “General Hospital, ” died at 79 after reportedly suffering from a long illness.
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