- Lance Reddick died of natural causes at the age of 60.
- Reports has confirmed this with his agent.
- Reddick most recently appeared as Albert Wesker in Netflix’s short-lived series ‘Resident Evil.’
Lance Reddick, who participated in prominent TV shows such as ‘The Wire,’ ‘Fringe,’ and ‘Bosch,’ as well as films such as the ‘John Wick‘ trilogy, which is due to premiere ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ next week, died of natural causes at the age of 60.
Reports has confirmed this with his agent. According to reports, who broke the story first, he was discovered dead at his Studio City home in Los Angeles on Friday morning. Reddick reprises his role as Charon, the concierge at the Continental Hotel in New York City who appears in all four entries, in the upcoming ‘John Wick: Chapter 4′, which is due to hit theatres on March 24.
Charon collaborated with Keanu Reeves’ unretired hitman, most notably caring for John’s new puppy in the second chapter and joining in on the gun-toting action in the third. Reddick was also set to appear in Ana de Armas’ forthcoming ‘Ballerina’ spinoff. Reddick was born in Baltimore on June 7, 1962, and is most known for portraying tough police officers and other men of power.
He got a Bachelor of Music in music composition from the University of Rochester. He relocated to Boston in the 1980s and graduated from Yale with a Master of Fine Arts in 1994.
His first notable television appearance was in Season 4 of the prison drama ‘Oz,’ in 2000. He portrayed Detective Johnny Basil, an undercover detective who seeks to stop the drug trade but gradually becomes addicted himself and kills a corrupt cop by shoving him down an elevator shaft. After being taken to Oz, Basil is stabbed to death by Clayton Hughes, played by Seth Gilliam. In 2002, he was cast as Baltimore police lieutenant Cedric Daniels, one of the show’s stars.
He had previously auditioned for the parts of Bubbles (which went to Andre Royo) and William ‘Bunk’ Moreland (which went to William ‘Bunk’ Moreland) (Wendell Pierce). Daniels was in command of the drugs section and gradually progressed through its ranks over the course of the show’s five seasons, regularly clashing with his superiors.
In the series conclusion, he resigned as commissioner and went into criminal defence practise.
After ‘The Wire’ finished in 2008, Reddick joined ‘Fringe’ the following year as Phillip Broyles, a Homeland Security special agent and chief of the Fringe section. The committee looked at instances involving fringe science, pseudoscience, and alternate timelines.
He was cast as another police commander in 2014, this time on Amazon’s ‘Bosch,’ which ended in 2021. After receiving two nominations for ‘Fringe,’ he was nominated for a Saturn Award for his performance as deputy chief Irvin Irving.
Reddick most recently appeared as Albert Wesker in Netflix’s short-lived series ‘Resident Evil,’ an adaptation of the classic zombie computer game. He also contributed to Season 2 of Amazon’s ‘The Tale of Vox Machina,’ which debuted in January. His other voice appearances include the villain Sylens in two famous PlayStation games published last year, ‘Horizon: Zero Dawn’ and ‘Horizon: Forbidden West,’ as well as Commander Zavala in the long-running ‘Destiny’ franchise.
Reddick was cast as the Greek deity Zeus in Disney+’s highly anticipated ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ series, based on Rick Riordan’s famous preteen books. His other forthcoming appearances include Hulu’s version of ‘White Guys Can’t Jump,’ which will be released on May 19, Danny DeVito’s ‘St. Sebastian,’ Netflix’s Shirley Chisholm biopic ‘Shirley,’ ‘The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,’ and the space drama ‘Apteros.
He also starred in ‘Lost,’ ‘CSI: Miami,’ ‘American Horror Story: Coven,’ ‘The Blacklist,’ ‘One Night in Miami,’ ‘Angel Has Fallen,’ and ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ during the course of his nearly 30-year career.
His wife, Stephanie Reddick, and children Yvonne Nicole Reddick and Christopher Reddick survive him.
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