Josh Grisetti starred in the final season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and the Broadway production of “Something Rotten!” and “It should have been you.”
‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ actor and Broadway star Josh Grisetti dies at age 44
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California authorities have confirmed the cause of death of Broadway star and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” actor Josh Grisetti.
The 44-year-old man died by suicide on Friday, July 10, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department Coroner’s Division told Page Six, which first reported the development, and People on Thursday, July 16.
Days earlier, Grisetti’s theater co-star Rob McClure shared Grisetti’s death by suicide in an emotional Instagram post on Sunday, July 13th.
McClure captioned a photo of the two of them: “It is with a broken heart that I share that the wonderful Josh Grisetti took his own life on Friday.” “I’m not even ready to try to understand. My heart goes out to his wife and family who are trying to deal with this reality.”
USA TODAY has reached out to the coroner for further comment.
Josh Grisetti quits ‘Legally Blonde: The Musical’ days before death
In her last Instagram post, two days before her death, Grisetti said she had to leave the production of “Legally Blonde the Musical” at Italy’s Trentino Music Festival “for personal reasons” before it opened.
“I literally cried on the plane…When your heart is broken, small gestures go a long way…” she captioned a photo of the cast in costume, one of whom held a photo of Grisetti. In the video, the cast yelled, “Josh, we love you!”
He further added, “Love this group of misfits again!!”
Grisetti played Ralph, a comedy staff writer for The Gordon Ford Show, in Season 5 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. He starred in eight episodes of the period comedy.
He also played Louis in the first and only season of ABC’s crime comedy Knights of Prosperity in 2007, and also appeared in episodes of The Good Fight and Nurse Jackie, the television films Like Magic, The Gates, Super Agent, and the films Immigrants, Public Interest, and The Sandpiper.
In theater, the actor starred in the Broadway productions of “It Should Have Been You”, “Peter and the Starcatcher”, and the world premiere of “Something Rotten!”. During his nearly 20 years on stage, his other credits include Camelot, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, as well as roles as Mark Cohen in Rent, Lumiere in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Mr. Wormwood in Matilda, and Plankton in SpongeBob SquarePants.
Grisetti is also the director of the Musical Theater Fine Arts program at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of God in My Head, a comedic spiritual memoir that tells “the true story of a former Christian who stumbled upon God.”
Mr. Grisetti is survived by his wife, Mackenzie Grisetti;
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