No official cause of death has been confirmed.
Actor Mark Salling, who starred as Noah “Puck” Puckerman on the hit TV musical series “Glee,” has died. He was 35.
Although no official police or coroner’s report has been made public, a law enforcement official not authorized to speak publicly says Salling was found hanging in a riverbed area in the Tujunga neighborhood of Los Angeles, according to the Associated Press. The official says the actor’s death is being investigated as a suicide.
Salling had recently plead guilty to possession of child pornography and was scheduled to be sentenced March 7. Under the agreement, prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence the actor to four to seven years in prison and be required to register as a sex offender. A search warrant had turned up more than 50,000 images of child pornography on Salling’s computer.
Former “Glee” actor Mark Salling (right) arrives at federal court in Los Angeles on Monday, Dec. 18,2017.| AP Photo/Reed Saxon
Salling had appeared in only a handful of projects before his breakout role in “Glee,” the popular Fox TV series about students in a high school glee club and their circle of family and friends. It aired from 2009-15.
Earlier credits included 1996’s “Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering,” a 1999 guest role on the Chuck Norris series “Walker, Texas Ranger” and a part in the 2014 TV movie “Rocky Road.” A singer-songwriter as well as actor, he released two albums: “Smoke Signals” in 2008 and “Pipe Dreams” in 2010.
Salling’s character on “Glee” was a member of the school’s football team who ends up joining the glee club. One of his character’s friends was another jock-turned-singer, Finn Hudson, who was played by Cory Monteith. Monteith died in 2013 from a toxic mix of alcohol and heroin, according to a coroner’s finding.
