Harry Potter actor Paul Grant passes away at 56 after collapsing outside King’s Cross station

Paul Grant, who is known for his work on the Star Wars and Harry Potter franchises, has passed away at the age of 56. According to The Guardian report, Grant was found outside King’s Cross station in north London on Thursday afternoon. He was pronounced dead at 3.49am on Monday but had been declared brain dead before that following his collapse. The cause of death has not been disclosed.

Grant is known for playing an Ewok in Return of the Jedi and played a goblin in the Harry Potter franchise. He was also in two cult classic films, 1988's Willow, starring Val Kilmer and 1986's Labyrinth, with Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie. He also appeared in the 1985 film Legend starring Tom Cruise.

“I’m heartbroken… No girl deserves their dad to be taken away… He was so well known and loved [for his work]. He’s gone too soon,” Grant’s daughter Sophie Jayne Grant said in a statement to Sky News. A London ambulance personnel shared, “We were called at 2.08pm on Thursday 16 March to reports of an incident at St Pancras Station, Euston Road.”

“We sent an ambulance crew and a medic in a response car. We treated a man at the scene and took him to hospital as a priority.” After Grant's tragic passing, Maria Dwyer, his girlfriend, along with his two daughters and a son, his stepchildren and grandchildren, are left to mourn and carry on his memory.

Dwyer also paid tribute to her late boyfriend saying, “Paul was the love of my life. The funniest man I know. He made my life complete. Life is never going to be the same without him.”

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