Soap Opera Star Billy Miller Dead at 43, Team Cites Depression

Billy Miller — a longtime cleaning soap opera star, who starred on a few of the most well-known exhibits within the style — has died, and it feels like he was battling some demons … TMZ has realized.

A rep for the actor tells us Miller handed away Friday in Austin, TX. A precise trigger hasn’t been revealed, however we’re instructed he was combating manic melancholy on the time of his dying. His crew suggests he could have taken his personal life.

It is extremely surprising and unhappy information for the cleaning soap neighborhood, as BM was one of many brightest stars within the biz for an excellent whereas. The man had unimaginable runs on each ‘The Younger and The Stressed’ in addition to a memorable function on ‘Basic Hospital.’

He starred in over 700 episodes for the previous — taking part in Billy Abbott — and acted in practically 600 episodes for the latter, taking part in totally different characters. Along with these two iconic exhibits, he additionally starred in ‘All My Youngsters’ within the mid-2000s, which kicked off his cleaning soap profession.

Miller’s work on daytime TV was acknowledged and praised by his friends — he received Emmys in 2010, 2013 and 2014 for Excellent Lead and Supporting Actor in a Drama Collection for his function on ‘Y&R.’ He was additionally nominated a handful of different instances, together with for ‘GH.’

He did not simply work on soaps, both, BTW — BM acted in various different TV sequence and flicks … reminiscent of ‘CSI: NY,’ ‘Justified,’ ‘Ringer,’ ‘Citadel,’ ‘Ray Donovan,’ ‘Fits,’ ‘Reality Be Informed,’ ‘The Rookie,’ ‘NCIS’ and others. He additionally starred in flicks like ‘American Sniper’ and extra.

Miller is survived by his mom, Patricia, and his sister, Megan … in addition to different prolonged household and buddies. He was solely 43.

RIP