Lance Reddick, star of The Wire and John Wick, has died at the age of 60

Charismatic Lance Reddick died on Friday, March 17 of “natural causes” at his home in Studio City, a northern suburb of Los Angeles. He was only 60 years old.

Born in Baltimore, little Lance attends Friends School. As a teenager, he developed a passion for music and studied at the Peabody Preparatory Institute at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. Also passionate about theater, he moved to Boston and attended the Yale School of Drama in the early 1990s.

He played in many plays, in 1994 he received a master’s degree in fine arts. Then went through many castings. Lance Reddick landed his first role on the New York TV series Undercover in 1996. He continues to make alternating appearances in film (Secrets of Silence, Curfew) and television (New York Special Unit, The Corner).

In 2000, he portrayed his first major character in the fourth season of Oz. A police officer becomes an informant in a prison at the center of this HBO cult series to break up a drug ring. With this allowance, Lance gets more film roles, as evidenced by his performances in I Dreamed of Africa, Not a Word, Bridget, Brother to Brother and Tennessee.

But it was on the small screen that he found his most famous role, as Lt. Cedric Daniels in the HBO series On listening (The Wire). This character of an honest and hard-working senior police officer with a legendary cold blood deserves all the praise. In 2008, after stopping On wire, Lance Reddick found another important role in Fringe, a science fiction and horror series.

This is the director of the Fringe section. Again, this character is very professional. The program runs from 2008 to 2013. At the same time, it rotates at an impressive pace. Thus, he appeared in several successful TV series The Blacklist and American Horror Story.

He also works as a voice actor in many animated programs. On the film side, he played supporting roles in Jonah Hex, On Their Own Wings, White House Down, Oldboy, The Guest, Search Party and John Wick. In the latter, he plays a concierge at the Continental Hotel who is also Winston’s right-hand man. A character he takes on in three sequels to this blockbuster action film starring Keanu Reeves.

From 2014 to 2020, he played Baltimore-based Irving Irving on the detective series Harry Bosch. On the big screen, Lance Reddick has appeared in The Domestics, Monster Party, Little Woods, La Chute du president, Pour l’amour de Sylvie, One Night In Miami and Godzilla vs Kong.

In the early 2020s, the charismatic comedian mainly devoted himself to dubbing and also played a recurring character in Resident Evil – The Series. Before his death, he directed several upcoming films and series, including John Wick’s 4th opus, in theaters March 22, and a remake of the cult comedy White People Can’t Jump.