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Adan Canto, the Mexican actor known for his roles in TV series such as \u201cThe Cleaning Lady\u201d and \u201cDesignated Survivor\u201d as well as for playing Sunspot in the film \u201cX-Men: Days of Future Past,\u201d died on Monday. He was 42.<\/p>\n
His death was confirmed by his publicist, Jennifer Allen, who said the cause was appendiceal cancer. She did not say where he died.<\/p>\n
In an acting career that spanned more than a decade, Mr. Canto played a range of roles including a furious criminal hellbent on having control, a poised politician and a fiery comic book hero.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Mr. Canto said in a 2013 interview with Collider<\/a> that he had \u201calways been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In \u201cThe Cleaning Lady,\u201d which premiered on Fox in 2022, Mr. Canto played the gangster Arman Morales, who recruits a woman, played by Elodie Yung, into his criminal organization after she witnesses a murder. The show is entering its third season this year.<\/p>\n He also played the politician Aaron Shore in \u201cDesignated Survivor,\u201d a political drama on ABC that starred Kiefer Sutherland and Maggie Q. In 2014, Mr. Canto starred as the mutant Sunspot in \u201cX-Men: Days of Future Past,\u201d his first major film role.<\/p>\n