Updated On: 24 March, 2020 12:09 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
The actress took to social media to inform her followers that her father had passed away due to COVID-19.

Sophia Myles with her father. Picture/Instagram: s.o.p.h.i.a.myles
COVID-19, aka Coronavirus, has brought the world to its knees. From global lockdowns to thousands of people dying due to it, the deadly virus has transformed the world into something else altogether. Besides the general public, a number of famous personalities, too, have been diagnosed with coronavirus; case in point, Tom Hanks and actress wife Rita Wilson.
Recently, Transformers actress Sophia Myles took to social media to inform her fans and followers that her father had passed away and the cause of his death was coronavirus. She wrote on Twitter: "RIP Peter Myles. My dear Dad died only a few hours ago. It was the Corona Virus that finally took him."