Adrian Schiller death: The Last Kingdom actor dies ‘suddenly’ aged 60

British actor Adrian Schiller has died “abruptly and unexpectedly” aged 60.

In addition to the historic collection The Final Kingdom, through which he performed Aethelhelm, Schiller was identified for enjoying Cornelius Penge in ITV collection Victoria.

The star’s agent introduced the information on Thursday (4 April).

Expertise company Scott Marshall Companions, who represented Schiller for greater than three many years, wrote in an announcement: “He has died far too quickly, and we, his household and shut pals are devastated by the loss.

“His dying was sudden and sudden and no additional particulars round its trigger are but out there.

“A prodigiously proficient actor, he had simply returned from Sydney, the place he had been showing in The Lehman Trilogy and was trying ahead to persevering with the worldwide tour in San Francisco.”

London-born Schiller had been a professionally credited actor for the reason that early Nineties, with appearances in exhibits akin to Prime Suspect (1992 and 1993), Ghosts (1994) and the TV film RKO 281 (1999).

The 2000s noticed Schiller proceed to rack up credit throughout British dramas and comedies, together with A Contact of Frost (2000), My Household (2001), Choose John Deed and Silent Witness (2007).

One among his most recognisable roles got here in 2018 when he joined the third season of the historic drama collection The Final Kingdom as Aethelhelm, the richest man in Wessex, and one of the crucial highly effective.

Schiller can also be identified for enjoying Mr Penge, a member of the royal family, in Victoria for 3 seasons from 2016 to 2019.

In January, Schiller performed a legal named Drake Underwood in an episode of the BBC detective collection Father Brown. The episode, titled “The Father, The Son”, centred on a heist gone mistaken.

Additionally identified for his theatre work, Schiller was among the many solid within the World Battle II play The White Manufacturing unit at Marylebone Theatre final yr.

Elsewhere within the assertion, Schiller’s agent additionally stated he “loved a various and profitable profession throughout all media”.

The agent added: “Our deepest condolences go to his household, who ask for privateness at this most tough of occasions.”