He also appeared in music videos by Noah Cyrus, Juice Wrld, Becky G, and Karol G. Conor Angus Cloud Hickey was born on July 10, 1998, and grew up in Oakland, California.

[8] While working at Woodlands restaurant close to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, Cloud was scouted by Euphoria casting director Jennifer Venditti; he initially thought she was trying to scam him.

[11] He had never acted prior to his role on Euphoria, his only experience in the field having been when he built sets and worked on lighting and sound for his high school's theatre department.

[20] Prior to his death, he was supposed to star in the film adaptation The Things They Carried which is based by Tim O'Brien on the events of the Vietnam War.

[11][15] The cause of death was an accidental multiple drug overdose,[22] a lethal mix of methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, and benzodiazepines, the Alameda County Coroner's Bureau told NBC News in September 2023.