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Lance Reddick, star of The Wire, dead at 60

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Lance Reddick, an actor who was one of the central performers in HBO’s The Wire, has passed away at age 60. TMZ first reported the story, citing law enforcement sources who said that Reddick’s body had been found at 9:30 a.m.

on Friday (March 17); Variety confirmed the actor’s death with his representatives. No cause of death has been revealed, though his passing reportedly “appears to be natural.” The FADER has reached out to the Los Angeles Police Department for more information.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Reddick was a dutiful student of the fine arts, receiving a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music and attending Yale’s School of Drama for a Master of Fine Arts (“I started acting because I thought it would help my music career,” Reddick told The Guardian in 2010).

After a run of guest roles in the '90s, Reddick appeared as John Basil in HBO's prison drama Oz. In 2001 he was cast in The Wire, an HBO drama program widely regarded as the greatest series ever filmed, chronicling the police department in Reddick’s hometown.

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