LOS ANGELES — Brad William Henke, an NFL player who later earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for playing a gay corrections officer in the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black," has died. He was 56.
The former defensive lineman "died peacefully in his sleep" on Tuesday, his agent, Sheree Cohen, said Friday. No cause of death was provided.
"Brad was such a wonderful, kind person and had a true passion for acting. Our thoughts are with his wife and family at this time," Cohen said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times.
