Star of "The Wire" and "John Wick" Lance Reddick passes away at age 60

 Star of "The Wire" and "John Wick" Lance Reddick passes away at age 60

Lance Reddick, who starred in well-known TV shows including "The Wire," "Fringe," and "Bosch" and movies like the "John Wick" series, which will premiere "John Wick: Chapter 4" next week, passed away on Friday morning from natural causes, his representatives confirmed to Variety. He was 60.

He was discovered dead at his Los Angeles home in Studio City early on Friday, according to TMZ, which broke the story.

Reddick returns as Charon, the concierge of the Continental Hotel in New York City, in the upcoming "John Wick: Chapter 4," which will hit cinemas on March 24. Charon has featured in all four installments. In the second and third films, Charon collaborated with Keanu Reeves' comeback hitman, caring for John's new puppy and engaging in on the gun-toting action. Moreover, Reddick was supposed to show up in the upcoming "Ballerina" spinoff, which would feature Ana de Armas.

Reddick was born in Baltimore on June 7, 1962, and is well-known for playing tough police officers and other men in positions of power. At the University of Rochester, he majored in music composition and received his Bachelor of Music. He relocated to Boston in the 1980s and graduated from Yale in 1994 with a Master of Fine Arts. In 2000's fourth season of HBO's prison drama "Oz," he played his first significant TV role. He portrayed Detective Johnny Basil, an undercover detective who first sets out to stop the drug trade but quickly becomes a heroin addiction. He then pushes a dishonest cop to his death by forcing him down an elevator shaft. After being taken to Oz, Clayton Hughes, played by Seth Gilliam, stabs Basil to death.

Then, in 2002, HBO cast him as one of the main characters in "The Wire," Baltimore police lieutenant Cedric Daniels. He had previously gone through the audition process for the parts of William "Bunk" Moreland and Bubbles, which went to Andre Royo (Wendell Pierce). Over the five seasons of the programme, Daniels, who oversaw the drugs branch, gradually moved through the ranks while regularly sparring with his superiors. He left his position as commissioner in the series finale and went into the field of criminal defence.

After “The Wire” ended in 2008, Reddick joined “Fringe” later that year as Phillip Broyles, a special agent for Homeland Security and head of the Fringe division. The group investigated cases relating to fringe science, pseudoscience and alternate timelines. In 2014, he was cast as another police chief, but this time on Amazon’s “Bosch” series, which ended in 2021. He played deputy chief Irvin Irving and was nominated for a Saturn Award for the role, after earning two nods for “Fringe.”

Most recently, Reddick played Albert Wesker in the Netflix series "Resident Evil," a popular zombie video game adaption, which ran for only one season last year. Also, he contributed voiceovers for the January release of Season 2 of "The Tale of Vox Machina" on Amazon. His previous voice performances includes Commander Zavala in the venerable "Destiny" series as well as the antagonist Sylens in two well-known PlayStation games, "Horizon: Zero Dawn" and "Horizon: Forbidden West," both of which were published last year.

Reddick was chosen to play the Greek deity Zeus in the much awaited "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series on Disney+, which is an adaptation of the well-known preteen novels by Rick Riordan. His other future projects include the May 19 premiere of the Hulu version of "White Guys Can't Jump," "St. Sebastian" starring Danny DeVito, "Shirley" on Netflix, "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" on Showtime, and "Apteros," a space thriller.

He also made appearances on "Lost," "CSI: Miami," "American Horror Story: Coven," "The Blacklist," "One Night in Miami," "Angel Has Fallen," and "Godzilla vs. Kong" throughout the course of his nearly 30-year career.

Yvonne Nicole Reddick, Christopher Reddick, and Stephanie Reddick, his wife, survive him. In his hometown of Baltimore, momcares.org is where donations may be made.