Award-winning actor Christopher McFarlane has died.

“I am still in shock,” comedian and actor Christopher ‘Johnny’ Daley told OBSERVER ONLINE.

“I got up this morning and I heard Chris had died, I thought it was a rumour but it was confirmed by close friends and relatives, I am literally still trying to process the news.”

Broadcaster Dahlia Harris also tweeted “Caan tek no more. Chris.”

She could not be reached for comment.

“I only heard he was in the hospital and he passed this morning, it was sudden,” actor Junior ‘Half a Dog’ Williams said.

McFarlane has had a stellar career in local theatre and film.

While still a student at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, McFarlane was nominated for an Actor Boy Award for his performance in Dennis Scott’s ‘An Echo in the Bone’.

He eventually won the Actor Boy Award for Supporting Actor for his performance in Basil Dawkins’ ‘Who God Bless’ and followed that with another Actor Boy award, this time for Best Actor in a Lead Role for his outstanding work in ‘A Tempest’.

McFarlane has held major roles in productions such as ‘A Raisin in the Sun’, ‘Against His Will’, ‘Country Duppy’, ‘What is Fi Yuh’ and for a sterling role in the play ‘Judgement’

He was nominated for Best Actor in a Lead Role for his work in ‘Appropriate Behaviour’. He also landed leading roles in several Jamaican films such as ‘Ghett’a Life’, ‘Goathead’ and ‘Better Mus’ Come’.