Nicky Katt, well-loved indie character actor from Dazed and Confused & Boiler Room, dead at 54

Last Updated on April 14, 2025 If you’re like me, and you grew up on a steady diet of nineties indie films, Nicky Katt was a familiar face. While rarely the lead, Katt could always be relied on to contribute memorable character roles to some of the coolest movies of the era, and now Deadline is reporting that the actor has died at only 54 years old. No news on the cause of death has been released, but it’s a sad loss for the industry – as far as I’m concerned, he never really got his due.Most of you reading this will probably remember him best for his role in Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, where he played a “greaser” wannabe fifties throwback who beat up Adam Goldberg’s character after getting a beer poured on his head. For my money, one of Katt’s best roles was in The Limey, where he played a memorably glib hitman named Stacy, who made the mistake of underestimating Terence Stamp’s titular character. He was a favorite of that movie’s director, Steven Soderbergh (as well as Li...