Overview
- Guidera’s wife publicly confirmed in a Facebook post and to TMZ that he died on Saturday in a Los Angeles‑area hospital.
- She said he suffered a cardiac arrest in May and spent about three weeks on life‑support before his death.
- The family’s emotional Facebook message has been carried by entertainment outlets including Variety and TMZ.
- Guidera rose to public notice with a 1990 role in The Godfather Part III and gained wider recognition in 1995’s Species, for which he won an MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss.
- He appeared in several late‑1990s blockbusters such as The Rock, Postman and Armageddon, made fewer screen appearances after the early 2000s, and is remembered as a distinctive character actor whose supporting work reached mainstream audiences.