New York: Lance Reddick, a personality actor who specialised in intense, icy and probably sinister authority figures on TV and movie, together with The Wire, Fringe and the John Wick franchise, has died. He was 60.

Reddick died “abruptly” on Friday morning, his publicist Mia Hansen mentioned in a press release, attributing his demise to pure causes. His demise was first reported by movie star web site TMZ.com.

Tributes flashed throughout social media after information of the demise, with filmmaker James Gunn calling Reddick “an extremely good man, and an extremely proficient actor” in a tweet and Wendell Pierce, Reddick’s co-star on The Wire paying tribute on Twitter. “A person of nice power and style,” he wrote. “As proficient a musician as he was an actor. The epitome of sophistication.”

Reddick was typically put in a go well with or a crisp uniform throughout his profession, enjoying tall taciturn and stylish males of distinction. He was greatest identified for his function as straight-laced Lieutenant Cedric Daniels on the hit HBO sequence The Wire, the place his character was agonisingly trapped within the messy politics of the Baltimore police division.

“I’m an artist at coronary heart. I really feel that I’m superb at what I do. After I went to drama faculty, I knew I used to be a minimum of 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 most effective that I’d be, and to be seen,” he informed the Los Angeles Occasions in 2009.

Reddick additionally starred on the Fox sequence Fringe as particular agent Phillip Broyles, the neatly dressed Matthew Abaddon on Misplaced and performed the multi-skilled Continental Resort concierge Charon within the John Wick films, together with the fourth within the sequence that releases later this month.

He earned a SAG Award nomination in 2021 as a part of the ensemble for Regina King’s movie One Night time in Miami. Reddick performed recurring roles on Intelligence and American Horror Story and was on the present Bosch for its seven-year run.

His upcoming initiatives embrace twentieth Century’s remake of White Males Can’t Soar and Shirley, Netflix’s biopic of former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm. He was additionally slated to look within the John Wick spinoff Ballerina, in addition to The Caine Mutiny Court docket-Martial.