Lance, 60, was discovered dead at his Studio City home in Los Angeles early on Friday.
Lance Reddick, who starred in well-known TV shows like HBO's "The Wire," Fox's "Fringe," and movies like the "John Wick" series, which is getting ready to release "John Wick: Chapter 4" next week, passed away on Friday morning from natural causes, his representatives confirmed to Variety.
According to TMZ, which broke the news first, Lance, 60, was discovered dead at his Studio City home in Los Angeles early on Friday.
In the upcoming “John Wick: Chapter 4,” which is set to release in theaters on March 24, Reddick reprises his role as Charon, the concierge at the Continental Hotel in New York City who appeared in all four entries. Charon worked alongside Keanu Reeve’s un-retired hitman, notably looking after John’s new dog in the second installment and joining in on the gun-toting action in the third movie. Reddick was also slated to appear in the upcoming “Ballerina” spinoff, starring Ana de Armas.
Reddick’s first major TV role came on Season 4 of HBO’s prison drama “Oz” in 2000. He played Detective Johnny Basil, an undercover officer who tries to shut down the drug trade but soon becomes an addict himself and murders a corrupt cop by pushing him down an elevator shaft. After being sent to Oz, Basil gets stabbed to death by Seth Gilliam’s character Clayton Hughes.
HBO kept Reddick around and later cast him as Baltimore police lieutenant Cedric Daniels, one of the leads, on “The Wire” in 2002. He was in charge of the narcotics division and slowly rose through its ranks during the show’s five-season run, butting heads frequently with his superiors. In the show’s finale, he resigned from his post as commissioner and became a criminal defense lawyer.
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.
Reddick received a second police chief role in 2014, but this time it was on Amazon's "Bosch" series, which ran from 2014 to 2021. After receiving two nominations for "Fringe," he was nominated for a Saturn Award for the role of deputy chief Irvin Irving.
More recently, Reddick played Albert Wesker in the Netflix series "Resident Evil," a popular zombie video game adaptation, which ran for only one season last year. Additionally, he contributed voiceovers for the January release of Season 2 of "The Legend of Vox Machina" on Amazon. He also provided the voice for Commander Zavala in the venerable "Destiny" series as well as the antagonist Sylens in the two well-known PlayStation games "Horizon: Zero Dawn" and "Horizon: Forbidden West," both of which were released last year.
Reddick was cast as the Greek god Zeus in Disney+’s highly anticipated “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series, adapted from the popular tween books by Rick Riordan. His other upcoming role’s include Hulu’s “White Men Can’t Jump” remake, set to release May 19, Danny DeVito’s “St. Sebastian,” Netflix’s Shirley Chisholm biopic “Shirley,” Showtime’s “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” and the space drama “Apteros.”
Reddick is survived by his wife, Stephanie Reddick, and children, Yvonne Nicole Reddick and Christopher Reddick.