Alex Duong, a stand-up comedian and actor who appeared on Blue Bloods, died on Saturday in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 42. Duong's death was announced by his friend Hilarie Steele via a GoFundMe page that was set up in February 2025 to help the comedian pay for medical expenses as he was battling alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and highly aggressive soft tissue cancer."With the heaviest hearts, we share that our dear Alex passed away peacefully this morning, surrounded by love and dear friends," Steele wrote in a post on March 28. "He was comfortable and thankfully out of pain.