The actor, who plays Hawkeye in the Marvel movies, is hospitalized in “critical condition” after an accident in Nevada on Sunday.
He is one of the faces of the Marvel galaxy, this ultra-lucrative film franchise that fascinates superhero fans. American actor Jeremy Renner, 51, is in “critical but stable” condition after an accident in Nevada on Sunday while clearing snow, his spokesperson told the US news site Deadline. He adds that he is “excellently taken care of” at the hospital, where he was transported by helicopter.
Little information is known about the circumstances of this accident. According to HollywoodReporter, police were called Sunday morning to the actor’s home near Mount Rose-Ski Tahoe, about 40 miles from Reno. The region saw a winter storm hit on New Year’s Eve, causing power loss to 35,000 homes in several counties.
The announcement of this hospitalization comes a few weeks before the release of season 2 of Mayor of Kingstownin which he holds the main role, the next project to date of this actor who has been playing blockbusters for ten years and has seen his name mentioned at the Oscars twice.
Thanks to a serial killer
Born in California in 1971, Jeremy Renner began his acting career in the mid-1990s. After playing a lazy student in the schoolboy comedy Full alarm in 1995, he multiplied minor roles in television series for ten years. He appears in episodes of Deadly Games, Angel Where The experts.
Luck began to turn in 2002 when he landed the leading role in Dahmerfilm by David Jacobson about the serial killer who traumatized the United States by murdering 17 young men between 1978 and 1991. Twenty years before the homonymous Netflix series, phenomenon of last fall, the feature film obtains good reviews and Jeremy Renner’s performance is hailed, giving his career the boost it’s been waiting for.
The following year, he co-starred with superstars Colin Farrell and Samuel L. Jackson in the action movie SWAT elite unit. The following years bring him again small roles on television, but also the recognition of his peers: Minesweepers by Kathryn Bigelow (2009) and The Town by Ben Affleck (2010) earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. Minesweepers was particularly noticed and won six statuettes at the high mass of American cinema in 2010.
After the critical success, the commercial consecration. It arrived in 2010 thanks to the Marvel universe, in which he made his first foray in 2011 with Thor, where he plays the superhero Hawkeye (Eil-de-Faucon, in VF). After this first minor appearance, his character will only gain momentum over the productions (avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War; Avengers: Endgame, Black Widow) until you get your own series, Hawkeyeairing in 2021 on Disney+.
New face of American action
Far from locking himself into this role of archer, he continues in parallel to appear in big Hollywood productions. In 2011, he gave the reply to Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. He takes over from Matt Damon by becoming the hero of the fourth Jason Bourne the following year, he shares with Marion Cotillard the poster of The Immigrant by James Gray in 2013…
In 2014, he was one of the stars of the five-star cast ofamerican bluff, by David O. Russell. He gives the reply to Robert de Niro, Jennifer Lawrence, Christian Bale and Amy Adams. He will find the actress three years later for First contact, by Denis Villeneuve. This science fiction film is the subject of seven nominations for the 2017 OScars, including that of the best film.
Actor… but not only
Besides the big screen, Jeremy Renner leads two careers in parallel. Also a musician, he explored this other passion with two EPs released in 2020, TheMedicine and Live For Now.
According to Bloomberg, he is also passionate about home renovations. He would have made a specialty of buying buildings in poor condition to put them back on their feet and resell them for a profit, as reported Slash Movie. And this hobby will also be the subject of a documentary series expected on Disney + this year.
Entitled Renervations, the program will follow the American actor as he “travels the world” to renovate homes in struggling communities. On the private side, he has a daughter with Canadian model Donni Pacheco, from whom he divorced in 2014.
