Iconic Fashion Model and Actor Dies: Renauld White Was 80
White grew to become the second Black mannequin to seem on the duvet of ‘GQ’ and likewise starred in CBS’ ‘The Guiding Gentle.’
Renauld White, the trailblazing mannequin and actor who starred on the CBS cleaning soap opera Guiding Gentle, has died. White handed away on Wednesday, June 26 on the age of 80. He’d been in hospice care at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, his longtime buddy and clothier Jeffrey Banks confirmed to Girls’s Put on Each day (WWD). A explanation for demise was not disclosed.
“It’s with super disappointment that I report that my dearest buddy and work colleague, RENAULD WHITE, left us yesterday,” Banks wrote in a June 27 Instagram tribute. “Modeling for me from the very begin of my profession, RENAULD was all the time the right gentleman and a fantastic ambassador for my model. When first launched to my Mom she claimed immediately that he was my ‘older brother.’ I solely wished that was so.”
Banks continued, “I shall miss our talks and occasions collectively, however will all the time bear in mind the boundaries you broke within the trend business and the love you shared as a trusted buddy. Good night time candy Prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy relaxation.”
NEW YORK – OCTOBER 25: Mannequin Renauld White attends the third Annual Thurgood Marshall School Fund FRONT ROW trend present at Roseland Ballroom on October 25, 2008 in New York Metropolis.
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White is remembered for his trailblazing modeling profession, throughout which he broke racial boundaries. He started his modeling profession within the Nineteen Sixties, with Banks, whom White first met in 1971 at a becoming for Ralph Lauren, telling WWD that White “was a groundbreaker. There have been only a few Black fashions on the time. He actually broke boundaries.” After strolling the runway for Invoice Blass in 1969, White went on to seem in reveals by Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, and extra, and likewise labored for the likes of Yves Saint Laurent, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Versace, Armani, and Cerutti. In November 1979, he grew to become the second Black mannequin to seem on the duvet of GQ, following Urs Althaus in November 1977.
Outdoors of modeling, White additionally loved a profitable appearing profession, most notably showing as William Reynolds in Guiding Gentle. The CBS cleaning soap, set within the fictional Midwest city of Springfield, ran for 57 years between 1952 and 2009, with White starring on the present for 2 years between 1986 and 1987. His different appearing credit embrace 2014’s Gun Hill and the 2017 film Central Park, based on his IMDb profile. The Morning Name reviews that White additionally had a job in The Stepford Wives.
White’s funeral will happen at 11 a.m. on July 12 on the Whigham Funeral House in his hometown of Newark, New Jersey.