© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: File Photo: Actor Tom Sizemore attends the premiere of the film ‘The Expendables 3’ in Los Angeles August 11, 2014. REUTERS/Phil McCarten
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(Reuters) – Tom Sizemore, an American actor best known for his roles in “Saving Private Ryan” and “Black Hawk Down”, was hospitalized in Los Angeles after suffering a brain aneurysm on Saturday morning and is in critical condition. said his manager. .
“He is currently in critical condition and it is a wait and see situation,” the 61-year-old actor’s rep, Charles Lago, wrote in an email.
Sizemore, whose film and television career has spanned decades, is best recognized for his roles as the battle-hardened sergeant opposite Tom Hanks in 1998’s “Saving Private Ryan,” and as an Army Ranger battalion commander in ” Black Hawk Shot Down” from 2001..” He was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2000 for best actor in a miniseries or movie made for television for his role in “Witness Protection.”
Sizemore has battled drug addiction for nearly his entire career and has had multiple run-ins with the police. A 2007 documentary series, “Shooting Sizemore,” chronicled his efforts to get his life and career back on track after he was convicted of assaulting his ex-girlfriend and entered rehab for methamphetamine and heroin use.
The actor has been arrested for driving under the influence and possession of drugs several times in recent years.