Ron Cephas Jones, ‘This Is Us’ actor who won 2 Emmys, dies at 66

LOS ANGELES — Ron Cephas Jones, a veteran stage actor who won two Emmy Awards for his role as a long-lost father who finds redemption on the NBC television drama series “This Is Us,” has died at age 66, a representative said Saturday. “One of the most wonderful people the world has ever seen is no longer with us,” Brown said in an Instagram post after Jones’ death. Ron Cephas Jones, “This Is Us” actor, dies at 66; “Blue Beetle” unseats “Barbie” atop U.S. box office; K-pop stars attend K-Con in LA. He was nominated for a Tony Award and won a 2022 Drama Desk Award for the Broadway role as a truck-stop cook in playwright Lynn Nottage’s “Clyde’s.” A native of Paterson, New Jersey, Jones graduated from nearby Ramapo College, where he had intended to study jazz but switched to theater during his sophomore year.