Los Angeles (USA) (EFE).- The American actor Tom Sizemore, one of the protagonists of “Saving Private Ryan” (Saving Private Ryan), is hospitalized in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Los Angeles, after suffering a brain aneurysm, according to local media.
Sizemore is in critical condition, in a situation in which it is necessary to “wait to see” his evolution, his spokesman, Charles Lago, explained to CNN, adding that “his family is aware and awaits further news” about the situation.
The 61-year-old actor, born in Detroit (Michigan), was part of the cast of several successful films, some of them related to the world of crime or war between the nineties and the beginning of the 21st century.
Among them is, in addition to “Saving Private Ryan” with Oscar-winning Tom Hanks, “Heat”, “Natural Born Killers” (“Born Killers”), “Pearl Harbor”, “The Relic” and “Black Hawk Down” (“Black Hawk shot down”).
CNN recalled that the actor used to play tough guys and perhaps his best-known role was that of Sergeant Mike Horvath in “Saving Private Ryan”, a war movie about World War II.
He was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2000 for his role in the miniseries “Witness Protection” and has appeared as a supporting role in episodes of the television series “Twin Peaks” and “Cobra Kai.”
The actor, who has been involved in numerous controversies and came to confess his addiction to drugs on television, was sentenced in 2003 for assaulting his ex-partner Heidi Fleiss, while in 2009 he was also accused of having mistreated his girlfriend.
In an interview with Fox News in 2021, Sizemore shared his intentions to get sober: “I’ve been trying to get sober since 1991…I’ve had a problem for a long time. He had periods, long periods, of sobriety and ended up relapsing, ”he explained then.
