Lance Reddick, finest recognized for his position in The Wire, has died aged 60.
A spokesperson for the US actor stated he “handed away instantly this morning from pure causes”.
They added: “Lance can be significantly missed. Please respect his household’s privateness at the moment.”
Reddick was finest recognized for his position within the crime drama The Wire, which ran for 5 seasons between 2002 and 2008.
The present was set in Baltimore, Reddick’s hometown, and he performed police lieutenant Cedric Daniels, who was agonisingly trapped within the messy politics of the town’s police division.
Reddick appeared in all 60 episodes alongside stars together with Dominic West, Idris Elba, Wendell Pierce and Michael Ok Williams.
Pierce stated Reddick’s demise was “sudden, sudden, sharp, painful grief for our creative household” and praised him as a “man of nice energy and style” in addition to being the “epitome of class”.
Extra just lately, Reddick starred within the John Wick film franchise alongside star Keanu Reeves. He performed lodge concierge Charon in all 4 motion pictures, with the final one due for UK launch subsequent week.
He was typically put in a swimsuit or a crisp uniform in his performing roles, enjoying tall, taciturn, and stylish males of distinction.
“I am an artist at coronary heart. I really feel that I am superb at what I do. After I went to drama faculty, I knew I used to be at the very least as proficient as different college students, however as a result of I used to be a Black man and I wasn’t fairly, I knew I must work my butt off to be the very best that I’d be, and to be seen,” he informed the Los Angeles Instances in 2009.
Lance Reddick, Keanu Reeves, and Adrianne Palicki arrive on the LA screening of John Wick in 2014
Tributes have poured in on social media from pals and followers after information of his demise, with filmmaker James Gunn calling Reddick “an extremely good man, and an extremely proficient actor” in a tweet.
Actor Michael Warburton described him as a “hell of an actor”.
Screenwriter BJ Colangelo tweeted that Reddick “improved each single undertaking simply by being there”.
Born and raised in Baltimore, Reddick was a Yale College drama faculty graduate who loved a style of stardom after faculty by touchdown visitor or recurring roles on CSI: Miami and Legislation & Order: Particular Victims Unit, in addition to showing in a number of motion pictures together with The Siege and Nice Expectations.
Amongst his upcoming tasks embrace twentieth Century’s remake of White Males Cannot Bounce and Shirley – Netflix’s biopic of former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
In 2021, Reddick earned a SAG Award nomination for his position in Regina King’s movie One Night time In Miami.
It was additionally in 2021 that his co-star in The Wire, Michael Ok Williams, was discovered lifeless on the age of 54. New York Metropolis’s health worker later dominated he had died of acute drug intoxication.
