Paramedics arrived shortly after 3 a.m. and rushed him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Wactor appeared in the ABC daytime soap between 2020 and 2022. His character, Brando Corbin, joined the show as the son of Gladys (Bonnie Burroughs), who was previously believed to be dead. Brando married Sasha (Sofia Mattsson) and eventually died after being stabbed by The Hook.
Wactor’s friends and coworkers paid their tributes.
Mattsson, who played his on-screen wife and later widower, shared she was “utterly heartbroken.”