Cephas Jones, also a Tony nominee, played William 'Shakespeare' Hill in the NBC drama.
“Life imitated art today, and one of the most wonderful people the world has ever seen is no longer with us,” he said.Ron Cephas Jones and his daughter Jasmine Cephas Jones made Emmys history.“A massive loss,” he said on X, formerly Twitter. “Ron was the best of the best - on screen, on stage, and in real life. The coolest. The easiest hang and laugh. And my God: what an actor.
Jones, who grew up in Paterson, attended John F. Kennedy High School and studied theater at Ramapo College. The actor, who struggled with heroin addiction and relapse — he told the New York Times he was arrested for drug and managed to— once worked as a bus driver in Los Angeles. Later, when he went to New York for drug rehabilitation, his mother kicked him out when he started using again, and he would sleep on a bench in Paterson’s Eastside Park.
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