Andre Noble, who stars in the film
Sugar, which has been playing to great success at the leading gay and lesbian film festivals this summer, died from inadvertant poisoning on July 30. According to a news release, Noble, 25, died a few hours after he came in contact with a poisonous plant known as
monkshood on a small island near his Newfoundland home.
Noble appeared in productions of Shakespeare's
Hamlet,
As You Like It and
Twelfth Night and he co-founded a new theater group in Toronto, The Young Company. He began his television career by appearing in the popular CBC mini-series "Random Passage," TVO/TFO's "Ta Voix Dans La Nuit" and the TV-movie "Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story."
He made his feature film debut as "Adam" in Jacob Tierney's
Twist, a modern retelling of
Oliver Twist, which opened in Canada in 2003 and is currently in limited release in the U.S. through Strand Releasing. Noble then got what might have been his breakout role as the lead in
Sugar, an adaptation of Bruce LaBruce's "JD" stories directed by John Palmer. Noble played "Cliff," an 18-year-old suburban boy who heads into the city and falls in love with a seductive, crack-addicted hustler, played by Brendan Fehr ("Roswell").
Sugar is currently in theatrical release in Canada through ThinkFilm; it will be released on DVD/VHS in the United States by TLA Releasing and ThinkFilm on November 16, 2004.
In his memory, Noble's family has set up a scholarship fund in his name for the Theatre Department at the Sir Wilfred Grenfell School of Fine Arts in Newfoundland. Tel: 709-256-1600.
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