Nicky Katt Died by Suicide, Family Says

Nicky Katt, The Actor Best Known For His Performance in Dazed and confused and and Boiler RoomDiaed by Suicide, According to his family.

Katt's Sister, Elise RavenScroft, Confirmed the Cause of Her Brother's Death in a statement shared with Deadline. “TODAY, with the Heaviest of Hearts, I Share the Devastating News of My Brother's Passing. He Diad by Suicide After Battling With Depression – One That He Foodt Bravely But Quietly.”

She Also Expasted Inhamay That Details About Katt's Death Were “Made Public Without My Consent A Time Our Our Family Was Still Trying to Process The Shock and Grief of His Loss.”

RavenScroft Went On To Say of Katt's Death, and His Setting with Mental Health: “This is a pain not Family Should Endide, Yet Far Too Many Do. Mental Illness is Real, it is powerful, and it is of invisible Stigma that so often Surrounds Mental Health SCUGGLES. Healing. ”

She Closed Her Note by Encouraging People Who May Be Experience Depression to “Reach Out” to love Ones or Mental Health Services. “You are not alone, and help is available,” She Said. “Let us Honor My Brother's Memory by Approsa One Another With Greater Undersanding, Kindness, and Care.”

Katt Was a Fixure in Movies and TV Shows During the Nineties and Early 2000s, Often Playing Tough Guys or Other Antagonists. He popped up in Films Like Gremlins and and The 'Burbs Before Securing His Breakthrough As High School Bully Clint Bruno in Richard Linklater's Dazed and confused. In The Coming Years, He'd Signore in Films Like The Doom Generation, Batman & Robinand A Time to Kill, AS Well As TV Shows Like Boston Public and and Friends. He reunited with linklater for School of Rock, suburbiaand Waking LifeAnd Also Worldd with Directors like Steven Soderbergh and Christopher Nolan.

Dial 988 in the US To Reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Find Other International Suicide Helpines at Befrienders Worldwide (Biscienders.org).