{"id":16919,"date":"2026-08-23T20:08:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=16919"},"modified":"2026-08-23T20:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:08:56","slug":"fans-remember-the-star-who-kept-working-despite-everythingsee-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=16919","title":{"rendered":"Fans Remember the Star Who Kept Working Despite Everything\u2026See more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He became a household name as Dr. Mark Sloan on Grey\u2019s Anatomy before gaining another major following as Cal Jacobs in HBO\u2019s Euphoria. Throughout his career, Eric Dane also appeared in films including X-Men: The Last Stand, Marley &amp; Me and Valentine\u2019s Day, building a reputation as one of television\u2019s most recognizable actors. After revealing his ALS diagnosis publicly, he<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>continued working and raising awareness about the disease, making his final months especially meaningful to his fans and family. Eric Dane died at the age of 53 on February 19, 2026, with his death certificate listing respiratory failure, with ALS as the underlying cause.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; He became a household name as Dr. Mark Sloan on Grey\u2019s Anatomy before gaining another major following as Cal Jacobs in HBO\u2019s Euphoria. Throughout his career, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16921,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16919\/revisions\/16921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}