Actor Bill Paxton dies

Actor Bill Paxton has died. Paxton's family announced the actor's death on February 26.

It is reported that the 61-year-old actor died from complications after surgery. Representatives of the family did not disclose any other details and asked that their right to privacy be respected.

• Bill Paxton was born in 1955 in Texas. He began acting in the 1980s, one of his first big screen appearances being a cameo in The Terminator (1984).
• Paxton's best-known credits include Aliens (1986), Predator 2 (1990), True Lies (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Tornado (1996), and Titanic. (1997). Paxton's last film was Cruel Dreams, released in 2016.