Overview
- His family said he died Thursday, Feb. 19, after a “courageous” fight with ALS, asked for privacy, and noted he spent his final days with Rebecca Gayheart and their daughters, Billie and Georgia.
- Best known as Dr. Mark Sloan on Grey’s Anatomy (139 episodes) and Cal Jacobs on HBO’s Euphoria, he continued working and had filmed scenes for Euphoria’s third season.
- Tributes were shared by Euphoria creator Sam Levinson and Grey’s Anatomy colleagues including Kevin McKidd and Kim Raver, with remembrances also from Alyssa Milano and Ashton Kutcher.
- Patrick Dempsey recounted a rapid decline about a week before Dane’s death, saying he was losing the ability to speak, was bedridden, and had difficulty swallowing.
- Netflix released a previously recorded posthumous message Dane addressed to his daughters, as coverage also highlighted ALS’s lack of curative treatments and ongoing trials such as low-dose IL‑2 and an FDA‑authorized study of pridopidine.