# Friends and co-stars pay tribute to ‘sweetheart’ Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte

https://mins.news/en/video/98436

- BBC News, 2026-10-13 17:30 UTC
- Culture
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NSPhuBB5U4

> US actor RJ Mitte, known for playing Walter White’s defiant son in Breaking Bad, has died aged 34. His representative described his death as tragic, and his publicist confirmed that he took his own life in Brownsville, Texas. Mitte lived with cerebral palsy and drew on his own experience.

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