Julian Ortega, the actor best known for his role in the Netflix series “Elite,” has died. He was 41.
The Spanish star suffered a cardiac arrest on Zahora beach in Barbate, Spain, on Sunday, according to The Sun.
He was reportedly pronounced dead at the scene after paramedics tried to resuscitate him for 30 minutes.
Ortega’s Instagram comments were flooded with emotional messages from fans and fellow actors reacting to his death.
His last post was shared on March 19.
It was a tribute to a show Ortega worked on. In Spanish, he said that the other people he worked with “made me learn, enjoy and have fun with colors.”
Ortega was best known for his role in “Elite,” a Spanish teen drama series that aired on Netflix for eight seasons from 2018 to 2024.
The series followed an elite high school home to wealthy and privileged teenagers.
Ortega appeared in six episodes of the series as the manager of La Cabaña restaurant, according to his IMDb.
The first season of “Elite” was streamed to more than 20 million accounts in its first month of release, Netflix announced in 2019.
Ortega’s other notable acting credits include the Spanish series “4 estrellas”, “The Countryside”, “Caronte”, “Untameable” and “La sue se avecina”.
According to his IMDb, he completed work on the upcoming film “Trompeta” before his death.
Ortega’s mother, Gloria Munoz, is also an actress.
Munoz, 76, is known for the films “Pellet,” “Hopelessly Devout” and “The Flower of My Secret,” as well as the series “A Different View” and “Dangerous Moms,” according to her IMDb.
Most recently, she starred in Eva Longoria’s Apple TV+ series “Land of Women.”
