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‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Star Nicholas Brendon’s Cause of Death Revealed

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‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Star Nicholas Brendon’s Cause of Death Revealed
May 5, 2026 6:21am PT ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Star Nicholas Brendon’s Cause of Death Revealed

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The cause of death for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” actor Nicholas Brendon has been revealed, nearly two months after he died at 54.

According to a report from the coroner’s office in Putnam County, N.Y., obtained by People, Brendon died of atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease. Pneumonia and previous myocardial infarction were listed as contributing factors, and the “mechanism of death” was 90% blockage in the right coronary artery. Brendon’s family had said in a statement on March 20 that he had died in his sleep of natural causes.

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