find out who is the actor of “The Mask” found dead in an apartment in the United States

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The cause of death has not been released, according to the NBC News website.

Report of the death was initially published in the New York Daily News, before being officially confirmed. According to businessman Gregg Edwards, Greene was found dead in his apartment on the Lower East Side.

Throughout his career, Greene has built an image strongly associated with violent or morally ambiguous characters. Besides Zed in “Pulp Fiction,” he plays the villainous Dorian in “The Mask,” also released in 1994 and starring Jim Carrey. Both roles helped cement his reputation as a particularly effective actor in dark characters.

Despite this on-screen profile, Edwards portrayed Greene as someone very different outside of work. “No one played a bad guy better than Peter,” the businessman said, before adding that the actor had “a soft side that most people have never seen, and a heart of gold.”

Edwards also explained how the body was discovered. He was informed that music had been playing in Greene’s apartment for more than 24 hours, leading to an audit, according to NBC News. The businessman also said that he had spoken to the actor earlier in the same week, indicating that the death had come unexpectedly.

In 1993, he starred in the film “Clean, Shaven”, in which he played a man with schizophrenia suspected of murder and who, in certain scenes, self-harms. The performance was praised by critics at The New York Times, who said Greene transformed the role into “an intensely angsty and unstable character, someone who didn’t even need to cut herself to get the audience’s attention.”

In addition to starring roles, Greene has had notable appearances as an actor in well-known productions. In “The Usual Suspects,” he plays Redfoot, a fence who provides information to a group of criminals about a jeweler’s robbery that ends in the victim’s death. In “Training Day,” Jeff played a detective who ends up shot and killed by Denzel Washington’s character Alonzo Harris as part of an attempt to cover up the cold-blooded murder of a former narcotics division agent.