His brief screen career was a story of happy accidents. Raised in Northern California, he moved to New York on a whim. He was working in a chicken restaurant when he was scouted by a HBO representative who worked with prominent casting agent Jennifer Venditti. Assuming the woman was a scammer, he was wary. “I was confused and didn’t want to give her my phone number,” he recalled. “I thought it was a scam.
His father, also named Conor, grew up in Ashbourne, where he captained the local rugby team. He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980s before settling in Oakland, in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Conor snr, who died in May, was remembered by his former rugby team-mates as a “gentle soul” and “force of nature”. He was laid to rest in Ashbourne a week before Cloud’s death. Angus had travelled to Ireland for the funeral.
But Hollywood must have seemed like a pipe dream when he moved to New York on a whim. Before being cast in Euphoria, he was waiting tables in a “chicken and waffle restaurant” near the Barclay Centre in Brooklyn.Fezco was initially written as a minor character and was supposed to die at the end of the first series. But he became an immediate hit with audiences: viewers were drawn to Cloud’s vulnerable and generous portrayal of a drug dealer with a heart of gold.
he seemed both slightly frazzled and completely underwhelmed by the attention. This was made clear in a viral clip from the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscars Party in which he mumbled through an interview