NEW YORK — Lance Reddick, a character actor who specialised in intense, icy and maybe sinister authority figures on Television and film, such as “The Wire,” “Fringe” and the “John Wick” franchise, has died. He was 60.
Reddick died “suddenly” Friday early morning, his publicist Mia Hansen stated in a assertion, attributing his demise to pure results in.
Wendell Pierce, Reddick’s co-star on “The Wire” compensated tribute on Twitter. “A man of excellent toughness and grace,” he wrote. “As talented a musician as he was an actor. The epitome of class.” “John Wick — Chapter Four” director Chad Stahelski and star Keanu Reeves stated they dedicating the forthcoming film to Reddick and were “deeply saddened and heartbroken at the loss.”
Reddick was typically place in a go well with or a crisp uniform throughout his profession, taking part in tall, taciturn and sophisticated men of difference. He was greatest known for his purpose as strait-laced Lt. Cedric Daniels on the hit HBO collection “The Wire,” where by his character was agonizingly trapped in the messy politics of the Baltimore police department.
“The Wire” creator David Simon praised Reddick on Twitter: “Consummate skilled, devoted collaborator, pretty and mild male, loyal good friend. Could go on, but no, I just can’t go on. This is gutting. And way, way, way much too soon.”
“I’m an artist at coronary heart. I really feel that I’m very great at what I do. When I went to drama university, I understood I was at minimum as talented as other college students, but mainly because I was a Black male and I wasn’t really, I understood I would have to do the job my butt off to be the greatest that I would be, and to be noticed,” Reddick told the Los Angeles Periods in 2009.
Reddick also starred on the Fox sequence “Fringe” as a unique agent Phillip Broyles, the neatly-dressed Matthew Abaddon on “Lost” and performed the multi-proficient Continental Hotel concierge Charon in Lionsgate’s “John Wick” films, which includes the fourth in the series that releases later on this month.
“The planet of Wick would not be what it is without having Lance Reddick and the unparalleled depth he brought to Charon’s humanity and unflappable charisma. Lance leaves powering an indelible legacy and hugely spectacular body of operate, but we will try to remember him as our wonderful, joyful buddy and Concierge,” Lionsgate mentioned in a statement.
Reddick attained a SAG Award nomination in 2021 as element of the ensemble for Regina King’s film “One Night in Miami.” He performed recurring roles on “Intelligence” and “American Horror Story” and was on the clearly show “Bosch” for its 7-12 months operate.
His forthcoming assignments incorporate 20th Century’s remake of “White Adult men Can’t Jump” and “Shirley,” Netflix’s biopic of former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm. He was also slated to seem in the “John Wick” spinoff “Ballerina,” as perfectly as “The Caine Mutiny Courtroom-Martial.”
The Baltimore-born-and-raised Reddick was a Yale University drama university graduate who loved some results after school by landing visitor or recurring roles “CSI: Miami” and “Law & Order: Exclusive Victims Device.” He also appeared in quite a few films, which includes “I Dreamed of Africa,” “The Siege” and “Great Expectations.”
It was on season 4 of “Oz,” actively playing a doomed undercover officer sent to jail who will become an addict, that Reddick experienced a occupation breakthrough.
“I was in no way intrigued in tv. I usually observed it as a indicates to an conclude. Like so many actors, I was only fascinated in accomplishing theater and film. But ‘Oz’ improved tv. It was the starting of HBO’s reign on quality, edgy, inventive things. Stuff that harkens back again to terrific cinema of the ’60s and ’70s,” he advised The Associated Push in 2011.
“When the possibility for ‘Oz’ came up, I jumped. And when I read through the pilot for ‘The Wire,’ as a male that never ever required to be on television, I realized I experienced to be on this demonstrate.”
Reddick attended the prestigious Eastman School of Songs, exactly where he studied classical composition, and he performed piano. His very first album, the jazzy “Contemplations and Remembrances,” came out in 2011.
He had a recurring job as Jeffrey Tetazoo, director of the Central Intelligence Company, on the CBS collection “Intelligence.” On “American Horror Story: Coven,” he portrayed Papa Legba, the go-amongst in between humanity and the spirit earth.
Reddick is survived by his spouse, Stephanie Reddick, and little ones, Yvonne Nicole Reddick and Christopher Reddick.
His death was very first claimed by superstar web-site TMZ.com.
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