Oscar winner Gene hackman and his wife, Stupidity Arakawawere found dead inside their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Wednesday, February 26. Hackman was 95 years old. His wife was 63 years old.
“On February 26, 2025, around 1:45 p.m., Santa Fe Sheriff deputies were sent to an address on Old Sunset Trail in Hyde Park where Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 64, and a dog was found died,” said the Bureau of Santa Fe. US Weekly Thursday, February 27.
“The unfair game is not suspected as a factor in these deaths for the moment, however, [the] The exact cause of the death was not determined. This is an active and underway investigation by the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Bureau, “said the press release.
THE Santa fe new Mexican was the first to report the news just after midnight, local time on Thursday, citing confirmation of the sheriff of the County of Santa Fe Adan Mendoza.
The winner of Jeffrey Mayer / Wireimage Oscar, Gene Hackman, and his wife, the classic pianist Betsy Arakawa, were married for more than 30 years before being found dead on Wednesday, February 26. Hackman was married for the first time in Faye Maltese from 1956 to 1986. The couple shared three children, Christopher, Elizabeth and Leslie. Maltese died in 2017. Superman’s actor […]
ABC News reported that Hackman and Arakawa, a classic pianist, were found dead on Wednesday when the police made a wellness check after a neighbor said he was concerned about their well-being.
Hackman has accumulated distinctions for his roles in films such as French connection And Unforgiven Before moving away from the spotlight.
Born in San Bernadino, California, in January 1930, Hackman was a sailor for five years and studied at the University of Illinois before leaving the college to continue the theater at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. He then worked at the New York Theater and finally made his debut on Broadway in the 1964 production of Any Wednesday. His performance helped him enter the film industry with a role in Lilith Later that year.
While his film career has prospered, Hackman won the nominations of the Oscars for the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde and the 1970s I never sang for my father. He then won his first Oscar for his representation of the detective Popeye Doyle in the years 1971 French connection. Hackman became a highly sought -after man, appearing in the 1975s Night move1981 Red1986 Hoosiers1987 No outing and 1988 Mississippi burning (for which he received another sign of Oscar’s head). He also showed his range with roles in 1974 Young Frankenstein and 1978 Superman.
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Hackman won a second Oscars for his representation of Little Bill Daggett in Clint Eastwood“S 1992 Western, Unforgiven. He then played in 1995 Court1998 State enemy2001 The Royal Tenenbaums2003 Jury on the run and 2004 Welcome to Mooseport.
Gene Hackman.
Kevin Winter / Getty imagesIn 2004, Hackman revealed in a rare interview that he had not had upcoming projects in preparation. Four years later, he confirmed his retirement to play, noting that he would only make another film in unique circumstances.
“I don’t know. If I could do it in my own house, perhaps, without disturbing anything and only one or two people,” he said Gq in 2008.
In an interview in 2020 with EmpireHackman has developed his decision to move away from the action. “The straw that broke the back of the camel was actually a stress test that I did in New York,” he said at the time. “The doctor advised me that my heart was not in the kind of form that I should put it under stress.”
Hackman married Arakawa in 1991. He left his three children in mourning, Christopher, Elizabeth and Leslie, with her deceased ex-wife, Faye Maltese.
