Lance Reddick, star of ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick,’ dead at 60 – National | 24CA News
Lance Reddick, an actor well-known for his roles within the John Wick motion pictures and HBO’s The Wire, has died on the age of 60.
Reddick died “suddenly” Friday morning, his publicist Mia Hansen mentioned in an announcement, attributing his loss of life to pure causes. His loss of life was first reported by superstar web site TMZ.com.
Reddick, who performs the character of Charon within the John Wick motion pictures, had been on a press tour for the franchise’s fourth instalment and was set to go to The Kelly Clarkson Show subsequent week.
The actor appeared to skip out on the New York City premiere of John Wick 4 on Wednesday, posting a video of himself along with his canine on social media as an alternative. It’s not clear why he selected to not attend the occasion.
Reddick was typically put in a swimsuit or a crisp uniform throughout his profession, enjoying tall taciturn and stylish males of distinction. He was finest recognized for his function as straight-laced Lt. Cedric Daniels on the hit HBO collection The Wire the place his character was agonizingly trapped within the messy politics of the Baltimore police division.
“I’m an artist at heart. I feel that I’m very good at what I do. When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a Black man and I wasn’t pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed,” he instructed the Los Angeles Times in 2009.
He additionally had roles in small display screen productions together with American Horror Story, Fringe, Bosch, Oz and Lost.
Reddick earned a SAG Award nomination in 2021 as a part of the ensemble for Regina King’s movie One Night in Miami. His upcoming tasks embrace twentieth Century’s remake of White Men Can’t Jump and Shirley, Netflix’s biopic of former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm. He was additionally slated to seem within the John Wick spinoff Ballerina, in addition to The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.
The Baltimore-born-and-raised Reddick was a Yale University drama faculty graduate who loved some success after faculty, but it surely was on season 4 of Oz, enjoying a doomed undercover officer despatched to jail who turns into an addict, that Reddick had a profession breakthrough.
“I was never interested in television. I always saw it as a means to an end. Like so many actors, I was only interested in doing theater and film. But Oz changed television. It was the beginning of HBO’s reign on quality, edgy, artistic stuff. Stuff that harkens back to great cinema of the ’60s and ’70s,” he instructed The Associated Press in 2011.
“When the opportunity for Oz came up, I jumped. And when I read the pilot for The Wire, as a guy that never wanted to be on television, I realized I had to be on this show.”
Reddick is survived by his spouse, Stephanie Reddick, and kids, Yvonne Nicole Reddick and Christopher Reddick.
— with information from The Associated Press
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