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About Joseph Cure
- Joseph O'Connell Cure (December 10, 1983 – November 8, 2015) was an American ice hockey player and actor.
- Cure made his film debut in Walt Disney Pictures' Miracle in 2004.
- Cure was cast as Mike Ramsey, the youngest member of the "Miracle on Ice" U.S.
- ice hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics.Cure, one of three siblings and a native of Bloomington, Minnesota, began playing ice hockey when he was five years old.
- He was playing bantam minor ice hockey before high school.
- In 2002, he and his hockey team from the Academy of Holy Angels won the Class AA Minnesota state hockey tournament.
- He graduated from the Academy of Holy Angels in 2002.
- Cure then relocated to Texas, where he played junior ice hockey.
- He attended Baylor University before being cast in Miracle.Cure, who had no acting experience at the time, auditioned for a part in the Disney's Miracle, a film focusing on the Team USA's Miracle on Ice at the 1980 Olympics.
- Cure, the youngest actor cast as a player in the film, portrayed Mike Ramsey, the youngest player in the 1980 US ice hockey team.
- The film opened on February 6, 2004.
- In a 2004 interview before filming began, Cure recalled the audition process, "I'm out in L.A., auditioning and pretending to be an actor, hoping somebody buys it." Miracle marked his film debut.
- Ten years later, in a 2014 interview with the Minnesota magazine, Let’s Play Hockey, Cure noted "The story of ‘Miracle’ is truly a love story about 20 young boys coming together and taking on the world.
- … Being a part of ‘Miracle’ forever changed the way I view the Olympics."Cure received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008.
- He moved to Bozeman, Montana, where he completed a post baccalaureate pre-med program.
- While applying to medical school, he was pursuing a master's in neuroscience at Montana State University by 2016.Cure was killed in a traffic accident on Montana Highway 287 in Madison County, Montana, on November 8, 2015, at the age of 31.
- Slick conditions on Highway 287 caused his vehicle to skid and roll over several times.
- A passenger, who was also a Montana State student, was seriously injured in the accident.
- Cure was survived by his parents, Bob and Mary Cure, and two siblings, Kelly and Randy.
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