2022 certainly was a roller coaster of a year, but some of the lowest points were undoubtedly the moments when we had to bid farewell to some of showbiz’s brightest stars. Here are 21 late celebs we mourned this year, and whose legacies we’ll surely remember in the years to come … 1. Kirshnik Khari Ball aka Takeoff, 28 Takeoff, whose real name was Kirshnik Khari Ball, was shot dead at a bowling alley while playing dice alongside his uncle in Houston, Texas in the early hours of November 1, Variety reports. Takeoff was a member of the successful rap group Migos. Along with his uncle, Quavious Keyate Marshall aka Quavo, and cousin Kiari Kendrell Cephus aka Offset, the trio became one of the most influential rap groups of their generation with hit songs like “Versace”, “Bad and Boujee”, “Stir Fry”, “MotorSport” with Cardi B, and “Walk It Talk It” with Drake. The group was known for its unique rapping style in which the trio had short lyrics, where often another member would continue the rap with a single word or sound. 2. Traci Braxton, 50 Braxton was best known for starring with her sisters Toni, Towanda, Trina and Tamar in the reality series Braxton Family Values from 2011 to 2020 alongside their mother, Evelyn. In 2014, Braxton released her debut solo album Crash & Burn , with the single “Last Call” reaching 16th on the US Adult R&B chart, according to Billboard. She released her second and final album On Earth in 2018. She died on March 12 from oesophageal cancer, TMZ reported. 3. James Caan, 82 The Bronx-born actor will forever be known for playing the hot-tempered Sonny Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s classic 1972 mafia epic The Godfather . Caan received an Oscar nomination for the role and reprised the part in the final scene of 1974’s The Godfather II . A year before The Godfather , Caan became a star when he starred opposite Billy Dee Williams in the TV movie Brian’s Song , which earned Caan an Emmy nomination for his performance as the real-life cancer-stricken NFL player Brian Piccolo. But Caan’s raw performance in The Godfather made him an instant legend, and he solidified it over the decades with other memorable performances in Misery , Honeymoon in Vegas and Elf . Caan died on July 6, according to his official Twitter account. No cause was given. 4. Aaron Carter, 34 A teen pop-star in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Carter, who is the younger brother of Nick Carter from the Backstreet Boys , released his debut album Aaron Carter in 1997 at the age of nine. His follow-up album Aaron’s Party (Come and Get It) was released in 2000. He released five albums, several of which went platinum. He also starred as himself on shows like Lizzie McGuire and Sabrina the Teenage Witch . In 2009, he appeared on Dancing with the Stars . Carter died on November 5 after he was found dead in his bathtub inside his California home. No cause of death was given. 5. Robbie Coltrane, 72 Known over the world for playing half-human, half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter films , Coltrane was already a respected talent on both sides of the Atlantic for his acting skills before joining the huge franchise. In the 1990s, he became beloved on British TV when he played the lead of the crime series Cracker as a criminal psychologist. He would win the British Academy Television Award for best actor in three consecutive years for his work on the show. In films, his credits included: Mona Lisa , Henry V , Nuns on the Run , Ocean’s Twelve , Pixar’s Brave , and as Russian gangster Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in two James Bond films, 1995’s GoldenEye and 1999’s The World’s Not Enough . Deadline reported Coltrane died on October 14. No cause was given. ‘Financially independent’: How Meghan and Harry earn their millions 6. Charlbi Dean, 32 This talented actor seemed on the verge of major stardom as her coming movie Triangle of Sadness , the latest from the acclaimed director Ruben Östlund, won the Palme d’Or – the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival . The South African model-turned-actor was also known for playing the assassin Syonide in the CW series Black Lightning . Dean died on August 29, according to Deadline, and the cause of death was not revealed. 7. Gilbert Gottfried, 67 Gottfried became a pillar of stand-up for decades thanks to his harsh, grating voice while doing his routine. That style turned out to be the perfect voice for a Disney character. Voicing the sarcastic parrot Iago in Disney’s 1992 animated classic Aladdin made him beloved to millions. Through his career, Gottfried had consistent work voicing characters for SpongeBob Squarepants , Family Guy , and also Aflac’s duck mascot in the insurance company’s commercials. He was also a cast member on Saturday Night Live during the 1980-1981 season. NPR reported Gottfried died of a heart complication on April 12. 8. Taylor Hawkins, 50 As the ferocious drummer of the Foo Fighters, Hawkins gave the band its chart-topping rock sound and he also looked the part with his long blond hair waving up and down as he played in the background. Hawkins joined the Foo Fighters in 1997 and spent the rest of his life forging a career that made him one of the best drummers of his era. Hawkins was found unresponsive in his hotel room on March 25 before the band was to perform at a festival in Bogota, Colombia. No cause of death was given, but a tweet from the attorney general of Colombia, via NBC News, indicated that in a preliminary toxicology test, 10 substances were found in Hawkins’ system, including opioids, benzodiazepines, tricyclic antidepressants and THC – the psychoactive compound in marijuana. 9. Anne Heche, 53 Heche was a fixture on TV and films since the 1990s. She was known for her supporting roles in the films Donnie Brasco , Volcano and I Know What You Did Last Summer . She then went into more leading roles in Six Days, Seven Nights opposite Harrison Ford and in Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot remake of Psycho . Heche was also known for her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s. The couple broke up in 2000. Heche was declared legally dead on August 14 by her spokesperson, more than a week after she crashed her car into a house in Mar Vista, California, causing a “heavy fire” that left her badly burned, authorities said. Why do celebrity deaths spark wild conspiracy theories? 10. Artis Leon Ivey Jr. aka Coolio, 59 Ivey was among hip-hop’s biggest names of the 1990s with hits like “It Takes a Thief”, “Fantastic Voyage” and “C U When I Get There”. Ivey, who went by the stage name Coolio, became a fixture in the West Coast rap scene in that decade. But he would gain worldwide notice with the song “Gangsta’s Paradise”, which was used in the 1995 film Dangerous Minds starring Michelle Pfeiffer. It became the bestselling single of that year and won Coolio a Grammy for best rap solo performance. His representative confirmed that Coolio died on September 28 but no cause was given. 11. Leslie Jordan, 67 Though Jordan’s career began in the late 1980s, he found stardom later in life. He won an Emmy for playing Beverly Leslie, the wealthy socialite, in the hit NBC sitcom Will & Grace . Jordan also starred on TV shows Ally McBeal , Ugly Betty , Reba , Nash Bridges and Call Me Kat . The actor was also a beloved figure during the early days of the pandemic when he would post hilarious and heartwarming videos to Instagram twice a day for over two months. In the short videos, Jordan weighed in on current moments in pop culture, and shared things that brought him joy (including his sticker collection) with followers. LA Times reported Jordan died on October 25 after he drove his car into the side of a building in Los Angeles. 12. Naomi Judd, 76 Naomi Judd and her daughter Wynonna made up the legendary country music band The Judds, who landed 14 No 1 songs over three decades. The Judds were recently inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and were planning an arena tour in the fall before Naomi’s death. The duo stopped performing in 1991 after Naomi was diagnosed with hepatitis and Wynonna continued with a solo career. Naomi is also the mother of actress Ashley Judd. Variety reported she died on April 30 due to mental illness. Weeks later, Ashley revealed on Good Morning America that the cause of death was a self-inflicted firearm wound. 13. Angela Lansbury, 96 A legendary actress on both the stage and screen, over her 70-year career Lansbury won five Tonys, six Golden Globes, and an honorary Oscar in 2013. She’s best known for starring in CBS’s long-running murder mystery Murder She Wrote , and playing the motherly teapot in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast . She also sang its famous title song. She scored her third best supporting actress Oscar nomination in 1963 for her role in The Manchurian Candidate . Her previous supporting actress Oscar nominations were for her first film, 1944’s Gaslight , and the following year’s The Picture of Dorian Gray . Lansbury died on October 11 of natural causes. 14. Ray Liotta, 67 Liotta’s acting career spanned more than four decades; he often played tough guys thanks to his sinister laugh and hard-to-miss New Jersey accent. His breakout role was playing psycho Ray Sinclair opposite Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels in the 1986 cult classic Something Wild , which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. But the actor would find stardom four years later when he played Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s 1990 classic Goodfellas . As Hill, based on the real-life mobster who became an FBI informant in 1980, Liotta was a powerhouse on-screen, performing opposite two seasoned Hollywood actors, and Scorsese regulars, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. Most recently, Liotta had memorable roles in Noah Baumbach’s 2019 drama Marriage Story and The Many Saints of Newark in 2021. “Younger people, like 14-, 15-year-old kids, come up to me, and they’ll say that they saw a movie of mine,” Liotta said in 2018, adding that he’s “very, very lucky” he did films that “will live for a long time”. Deadline reported Liotta died on May 26; no cause was given. 15. Meat Loaf, 74 With his bestselling album Bat Out of Hell and his acting in films including The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Fight Club , Michael Lee Aday, known professionally as Meat Loaf, was famous for his larger-than-life performances. His songs “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” and “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” became global hits, with the latter earning him a Grammy. An announcement was made on his Facebook page, revealing Meat Loaf had died on January 20, but no cause was given. 16. Moses J. Moseley, 31 Moseley is best known for playing one of Michonne’s zombies on The Walking Dead. He also starred in Queen of the South , the Watchmen TV series, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Moseley’s manager, Tabatha Minchew, said that Moseley was found dead in Stockbridge, Georgia, on January 26. The cause of his death has not been released. 17. Olivia Newton-John, 73 Best known for playing Sandy in the big-screen version of Grease , Newton-John always looked to be having the most fun in the room. She became a cult-movie fixture in 1980 with the critically bashed (and now beloved) Xanadu . On the music side, Newton-John won four Grammy Awards and released 26 studio albums over her career. Her singles “If You Love Me, Let Me Know” from 1974, and 1975’s “Have You Never Been Mellow” would hit No 1 on the Billboard charts in the US. But her biggest song came in 1981 with “Physical”. It spent 10 weeks at No 1 on Billboard and has been covered by the likes of Kylie Minogue and Dua Lipa. Meet Dua Lipa’s new rumoured romance, TikTok rapper Jack Harlow Newton-John was diagnosed with cancer three separate times. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, which spurred her advocacy for breast-cancer awareness and screenings. She was diagnosed again in 2013, but this time the cancer had spread to her shoulder. In May 2017, the singer revealed she was diagnosed for a third time and that the cancer had spread to her lower back. In 2021, she said she was still living with cancer and using cannabis to help with the symptoms, per Fox News. Her husband John Easterling confirmed in a statement posted on social media that the star died aged 73 on August 8. 18. Sidney Poitier, 94 Poitier was a trailblazing actor who – along with a career filled with landmark acting, directing, and producing roles – was also a voice for civil rights in the 1960s and an ambassador for his beloved home country of the Bahamas. He made history when he became the first African-American actor to win the Oscar for best actor for his performance in 1963’s Lilies of the Field . He was also the Bahamian ambassador to Japan from 1997 to 2007 and from 2002 to 2007, he was the ambassador of the Bahamas to Unesco. President Barack Obama presented Poitier with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009, the US’ highest civilian honour. Poitier died on January 7 at his home in Los Angeles. TMZ reported the cause of death was a combination of heart failure, Alzheimer’s dementia and prostate cancer. 19. Bob Saget, 65 Saget, the stand-up comedian and actor, was best known for his role as Danny Tanner in the ABC sitcom Full House , which ran from the late 1980s to mid-1990s. He also hosted America’s Funniest Home Videos . But for millions, he will always be known as their “TV dad” thanks to his kind-hearted performance as Tanner. Saget was found dead in a hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, Florida, on January 9. No cause was given, but a preliminary autopsy found “no evidence of drug use or foul play”. You’re fired! 11 celebs and public figures who recently lost their jobs TMZ reported on February 9 that Saget died of a brain bleed after hitting his head. “Authorities don’t know what object he hit – possibly the headboard – but there was an obvious bruise on the back of his head,” according to the site. “Authorities believe Bob did not know the severity of the injury and got under the covers and went to sleep. We’re told he never woke up and died from a brain bleed.” 20. André Leon Talley, 73 Talley was Vogue’s fashion news director from 1983 to 1987, its first black male creative director from 1988 to 1995, and then its editor-at-large from 1998 to 2013. As the right-hand of Vogue’s creative director and editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, Talley’s fashion sense and outspokenness made him famous beyond the magazine world. The fashion icon was also a close confidant of designers Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, Paloma Picasso, Diane von Furstenberg and countless others. His friend Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, confirmed Talley died on January 18 in hospital after a series of health struggles, according to Vogue. 8 most controversial celebrity outfits of 2022, from Kim K to Dua Lipa 21. Kirstie Alley, 71 With her striking looks and her fantastic comedic abilities, Kirstie Alley became one of the biggest stars of the 1980s. Her debut gained her instant stardom when she played a Vulcan in 1982’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. She followed that with starring in a wide range of roles through the decade from TV films to the slapstick comedy Summer School . But in 1987, she landed the role that would make her a superstar when she was cast as bar manager Rebecca Howe on the hit show Cheers . She was on the show from 1987 to 1993 and won an Emmy in 1991. She would go on to win a second Emmy in 1994 for the TV drama David’s Mother . But her talents weren’t just for the small screen. She starred opposite John Travolta in the hit comedy Look Who’s Talking in 1989. She also starred in its two sequels. Her children announced on her Twitter account that Alley died on November 5 due to cancer. This article originally appeared on Insider . Want more stories like this? Follow STYLE on Facebook , Instagram , YouTube and Twitter . If you are having suicidal thoughts, or you know someone who is, help is available. For Hong Kong, dial +852 2896 0000 for The Samaritans or +852 2382 0000 for Suicide Prevention Services. 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