Actor Lance Reddick, police chief on The Wire, useless at age 60

LOS ANGELES — Actor Lance Reddick, greatest recognized for his commanding presence as a no-nonsense police chief on the acclaimed tv drama The Wire and for his supporting work within the John Wick action-film collection, died on Friday (March 17) at age 60, his publicist mentioned.

Reddick died out of the blue on Friday morning of pure causes, in keeping with an announcement issued by the publicist, Mia Hansen. No additional particulars in regards to the circumstances of his dying have been instantly disclosed.

Superstar information web site TMZ.com, citing regulation enforcement sources, reported the performer had been discovered useless at his residence within the Studio Metropolis district of Los Angeles at round 9.30am.

His dying got here simply days earlier than the deliberate March 24 launch of the fourth instalment within the John Wick franchise, through which Reddick reprised his function as a lodge supervisor named Charon, an ally of the title character, knowledgeable murderer pressured out of retirement, performed by Keanu Reeves.

Reddick scored his first main display function as police chief Cedric Daniels on the HBO crime drama The Wire, set in his hometown of Baltimore. The present, which aired for 5 seasons starting in 2002, was broadly hailed as one among tv’s biggest dramas for its gritty portrait of city battle as instructed from the attitude of police, narcotics sellers and the individuals caught between them.

Tall, with a shaved head and a aptitude for portraying low-key however imposing authority figures, Reddick later performed an analogous function as a big-city police chief on the Los Angeles-based cop drama Bosch, a present from the streaming service Amazon Prime.

He additionally appeared in a pair of reveals co-created by J.J. Abrams, beginning with season 4 of the ABC collection Misplaced. That character was quickly killed off, making means for Reddick to affix the solid of Fringe, a Fox community collection through which he performed the pinnacle of an FBI unit investigating the paranormal.

Different tv credit embody the HBO jail collection, Oz as undercover police detective Johnny Basil, the Emmy-winning FX anthology collection American Horror Story enjoying a Voodoo grasp named Papa Legba, and the forthcoming Disney+ collection Percy Jackson and the Olympians because the Greek god Zeus.

Movement image work past John Wick included appearances in such thrillers as Angel has Fallen, Monster Social gathering and Godzilla vs. Kong. He was additionally recognized to online game fans because the voice of the character Commander Zavala within the Future model shooter franchise.

A classically educated pianist, Reddick attended the Peabody Preparatory Institute to review music, labored within the Walden College’s summer season music idea and composition programme, and finally obtained a bachelor’s diploma in classical composition from the College of Rochester’s Eastman College of Music.

He launched a jazz album, Contemplations and Remembrances in 2007.

{A photograph} of Reddick posted on his Instagram account the day earlier than his dying confirmed the smiling actor, seated on a settee in his front room surrounded by 4 pet canine.

Fellow actor Wendell Pierce paid tribute his Wire co-star on Twitter, calling Reddick a “man of nice energy and beauty” and the “epitome of sophistication”.

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“You made your mark right here. RIP,” Pierce mentioned.

Reddick is survived by his spouse, Stephanie, whom he married in 2011, and the couple’s son and daughter.

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