Tony Award-nominated actor Nick Cordero has had his right leg amputated after suffering complications from the coronavirus. His wife Amanda Kloots wrote on Instagram that Cordero "made it out of surgery alive and is headed to his room to rest and recover."
Cordero had been treated with blood thinners to help with clotting in his leg, but his doctors had to stop the treatment because it was causing internal bleeding. "We took him off blood thinners but that again was going to cause some clotting in the right leg, so the right leg will be amputated today," said Kloots. Cordero entered the intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on March 31 and has been on a ventilator and unconscious after contracting COVID-19.
Cordero played a mob soldier with a flair for the dramatic in 2014 in Broadway's Woody Allen 1994 film adaptation of "Bullets Over Broadway," for which he received a Tony nomination for best featured actor in a musical. He moved to Los Angeles to star in "Rock of Ages." Cordero originated the role of Earl in "Waitress" on Broadway, as well as the role of Sonny in Chazz Palminteri's "A Bronx Tale." He also appeared in several episodes of "Blue Bloods" and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" as well as "Lilyhammer" and he had a role in the film "Going in Style."
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