Motion picture and television actor. His most prominent role was in the NBC soap opera, “Passions.” He also played a young grinch in Hollywood’s “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000). He won two Soap Opera Digest Awards for Outstanding Male Scene. Josh Ryan Evans appeared on the TV Series “Ally McBeal,” “Poltergeist: The Legacy,” “7th Heaven” (1996), “P.T. Barnum” (1999), and “Baby Geniuses” (1999). The 3’2″ actor was born with a rare disease that stunted his growth. Cause of death: Heart ailment