Mark Salling

Mark Salling (August 17, 1982 – January 30, 2018) was an American actor and musician.
Salling was known for his role as Noah "Puck" Puckerman on the television series Glee. Salling studied at the Los Angeles College of Music before working as a guitar teacher. He also worked as an occasional actor, appearing in Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996) and The Graveyard (2006) before gaining a recurring role in Glee in 2009. Initially a regular character, from the fifth season he was reduced to a recurring guest star role. On the show, he soloed and dueted on cover versions of various songs. Pursuing a music career, he established his own label, Pipe Dreams Records, in partnership with Fontana Distribution. On this label he released an album, Pipe Dreams, in 2010. In 2015, Salling was arrested for possession of child pornography. He pleaded guilty to the charges in 2017, but died by suicide on January 30, 2018, one month before he was to be sentenced.
==Personal Life==
Salling had dated model DJ Roxanne Dawn from January 25, 2010 until April 22, 2011. The two had a rocky relationship and Salling was sued by Dawn in 2013.
==Legal Troubles & Death==
On December 29, 2015, Salling was arrested at his Los Angeles home on suspicion of possessing several thousand photos and videos depicting child pornography, following a tip-off to the police from one of his ex-girlfriends. He was released later on $20,000 bail, but a search warrant found more than 50,000 images of child pornography, downloaded between April and December 2015, on his computer and USB flash drives. On May 27, 2016, he was charged with receiving and possessing child pornography. As a result of the charges, Salling was removed from the cast of Adi Shankar's film Gods and Secrets. On September 30, 2017, he pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, which was expected to result in Salling serving four to seven years in jail, registering as a sex offender, and entering a treatment program, among other conditions. The guilty plea was formalized on December 18, 2017, and Salling's sentencing date was set for March 7, 2018. However, Salling was found dead from an apparent suicide by hanging on January 30, 2018, near his home in the Sunland area of Los Angeles, six hours after he was reported missing.
==Filmography==
===Film===
Year	Title 	Character
1996	Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering	James Rhodes
2006	The Graveyard 	Eric
2011	Glee: The 3D Concert Movie 	Noah "Puck" Puckerman/Himself
===Television===
Year 	Title 	Character 	Episodes
1999 	Walker, Texas Ranger	Billy 	1 episode
2009–2015	Glee 	Noah "Puck" Puckerman	86 episodes
2010 	The X Factor 	Himself 	1 episode
2011 	The Glee Project 	Himself 	1 episode
2014 	Rocky Road 	Harrison Burke 	Film
2015 	Undateable 	John 	1 episode
2017 	The Middle 	Jackson 	1 episode
2017 	Superstore 	Steven 	2 episodes
==Discography==
===Studio Albums===
*Smoke Signals (2008)
*Pipe Dreams (2010)