Actor Kamar de Los Reyes, who played the role of a troubled cop Antonio Vega on the ABC’s soap opera ‘One Life to Live’ and lent his voice to the villain Raul Menendez in ‘Call of Duty’ video games, is no more. De los Reyes succumbed after a brief battle with cancer on Christmas Eve, Variety reported. He was only 56.
At the time of his demise, the actor was busy working on the show ‘All American’ and had filmed parts for Hulu’s series ‘Washington Black’ and Marvel’s upcoming ‘Daredevil’ series. De los Reyes was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and was raised in Las Vegas.His move to Los Angeles was in the late 1980s to pursue acting. He spent his growing up years studying singing and dancing.
His big break came on the long-running ABC soap Opera ‘One Life to Live’ which was under running from 1995 through 1998. He played the character of Antonio Vega, who was serving a life sentence for murder when he’s introduced but is later revealed that he was acting in self defence.
In the popular 2012 video game ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops II’, de los Reyes carried on the role of the antagonist Raul Menendez, a Nicaraguan arms dealer and terrorist who sparked another Cold War in a futuristic 2025. He reprised the character in “Call of Duty: Black Ops IV” and “Call of Duty: Vanguard.”
Most recently, he was seen in a recurring role as Jobe on Fox’s ‘Sleepy Hollow’ in 2017, as a detective on ABC’s ‘The Rookie’ in 2021 and as a college football coach on the CW’s ‘All American’ in 2022.
