Corey Parker, known for his roles in “Will & Grace,” “Friday the 13th: A New Beginning,” and more, has died, according to his family. He was 60.
Parker’s aunt told TMZ that the actor, whose first roles date back to the 1980s, died Thursday after a battle with cancer. Additional details were not immediately available.
An online fundraiser previously established for Parker, who had become an acting coach, said in April 2025 that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones. The diagnosis came after Parker broke his hip in August 2024.
In an October update, Parker described his cancer as “aggressive,” adding that hormone therapy had worked “only for a few months” and that the cancer had “been growing and spreading all this time.” A November update from Parker said the cancer had spread to his “skull, entire spine, shoulders, clavicles, sternum, ribs, arms, pelvis, hip bones, [and] legs.”
In January, Parker reportedly told his classes that he would “not be able to continue teaching.” The most recent update to the fundraiser, posted in mid-February, Parker said his family had “started to prepare the house for the time when we will begin hospice care.”
In a statement shared via BGB Studio, Parker’s sister, Noelle, said she believes “he left this world weightless, at peace & surrounded by love.” Risa Bramon Garcia, a casting director with the studio, added that she had “known and loved you for the past 45 years.”
“You were a massive part of my creative work, my creative family, for decades,” Bramon Garcia wrote. “It meant everything and full circle when you joined our BGB community as a teacher, and we navigated the work together, all of us, always coming back to the truth and the potential of storytelling, of the actor’s endless power. You kept us all honest and brave and hopeful and about art.”
Parker – whose mother, Rocky Parker, was also an actress – began acting when he was just 4 years old, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
earned his earliest acting credits in the 1980s, his IMDb page shows. That includes an uncredited role as a bully in the TV series, “As the World Turns,” and a one-episode appearance on “The New Leave It to Beaver” series.
Then, in 1985, Parker was cast as Pete in “Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.”
Parker’s resume also included appearances in episodes of “ABC Afterschool Specials,” “Thirtysomething,” “Eddie Dodd,” and “Blue Skies,” among other shows. His most notable TV roles were as Neil Barash on “Flying Blind,” Dr. John Morgan on “Love Boat: The Next Wave,” and Josh on “Will & Grace.”
His last credits came in 2017 with an episode of “Sun Records” and an appearance in the short, “Winding Brook.”
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