Longtime soap opera actor Jay Pickett dies at 60

Jay Pickett.
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Actor Jay Pickett, best known for his roles on the soap operas General Hospital, Port Charles, and Days of Our Lives, has died. He was 60.

Pickett was on location in Idaho filming the movie Treasure Valley when he died, director Travis Mills shared. The cause of death has not been announced, Mills said, but it "appears to have been a heart attack." Mills said Pickett "was doing what he loved: acting, riding horses, making movies. And he was magnificent."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.