Lance Reddick

Lance Reddick was proof that authority on screen is a craft, not a costume. As Cedric Daniels in The Wire or Charon in John Wick, he could make stillness feel like an event; that ramrod posture and resonant voice carried decades of stage discipline underneath. What I admired most was his generosity as an actor — he made everyone around him look better while rarely seizing the spotlight himself. That he was also a trained musician makes sense; his performances had a musician's feel for timing and restraint. His death in 2023 left a hole in cinema nobody has filled. Character actors like him are the quiet load-bearing walls of great storytelling.

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Name (English)

Lance Reddick

Name (Japanese)

ランス・レディック

Reading

らんす・れでぃっく

Born

June 7, 1962 – March 17, 2023

Origin

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / stage actor / musician / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Tiger

University

University of Rochester

• Official sitehttp://www.lancereddick.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/thereallancereddick/
• Xhttps://x.com/lancereddick
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance%20Reddick
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q322056

Tags

• Maryland
• television actor
• film actor
• stage actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.