{"id":22827,"date":"2026-04-09T13:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=22827"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:30:01","slug":"game-of-thrones-actor-passed-away-at-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=22827","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 Actor Passed Away At 35!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ad_ph\">\n<hr data-start=\"96\" data-end=\"99\" \/>\n<p data-start=\"101\" data-end=\"297\">Actor and writer Michael Patrick has died at 35. The Irish actor\u2014who appeared in Season 6 of <em data-start=\"194\" data-end=\"211\">Game of Thrones<\/em>\u2014passed away in hospice care, his wife Naomi Sheehan shared on Instagram on April 8.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"299\" data-end=\"464\">Patrick had been battling Motor Neuron Disease, a progressive illness that attacks nerves controlling movement. His family did not disclose his specific diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"466\" data-end=\"796\">\u201cLast night, Mick sadly passed away in the Northern Ireland Hospice,\u201d Sheehan wrote. \u201cHe was diagnosed February 1, 2023, admitted 10 days ago, and passed peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Mick was an inspiration to everyone who knew him. He lived fully, with joy, laughter, and abundance of spirit. Eat. Drink. Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"798\" data-end=\"960\">Patrick\u2019s final social media post came on February 6, noting his neurologist had given him about a year to live, but he still had plans and hope for the future.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"962\" data-end=\"1300\">A Cambridge graduate, Patrick performed in multiple Shakespeare productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company and continued acting even after his illness required a wheelchair. In 2024, he starred as Richard III at Belfast\u2019s Lyric Theatre. On TV, he appeared in <em data-start=\"1225\" data-end=\"1242\">Game of Thrones<\/em> and BBC series including <em data-start=\"1268\" data-end=\"1279\">This Town<\/em> and <em data-start=\"1284\" data-end=\"1297\">Blue Lights<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUa4Mk8Akdy\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Ftiphero.com&amp;rp=%2Fgame-of-thrones-actor-passed-away-at-35%3F%3Dths%26fbclid%3DIwY2xjawREiJBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEzRVhRWWl6Sm0xSWxJVzB5c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHpIXRBSoav-VLPrsKI8127fJvVvqDOF1c-cc9y_KiAWlDkq4Q#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A1267.4000000059605%2C%22ls%22%3A485.5%2C%22le%22%3A1245.7000000178814%7D\" height=\"1469\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor and writer Michael Patrick has died at 35. The Irish actor\u2014who appeared in Season 6 of Game of Thrones\u2014passed away in hospice care, his wife Naomi Sheehan shared on Instagram on April 8. Patrick had been battling Motor Neuron Disease, a progressive illness that attacks nerves controlling movement. His family did not disclose his&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=22827\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 Actor Passed Away At 35!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22831,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827\/revisions\/22831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}