Reddick will appear in a remake of White Men Can’t Jump as Charon in a Wick spin-off, Ballerina in the Shirley Chisholm biopic, Shirley, and as Capt Blakely in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. John Wick 4 has just been released, and he also leaves behind a store of work that has yet to be seen. In 2007 he released an album of his own music, Contemplations and Remembrances. He was the voice of the Falcon in the animated Avengers (2012), and of the villain Ras Al Ghul in Beware the Batman (2013), as well as voicing Commander Zavala in the Destiny video game series, and Sylens in Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) and Horizon Forbidden West (2022).Īlong the way he finally got to be a rock star, playing a cop in the music video of Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s ’03 Bonnie & Clyde. Recurring parts in CSI:Miami (2005-06) and Lost (2008-09) followed, and he played James Baldwin in the 2004 movie Brother to Brother. In 2000 he was cast in David Simon’s The Corner, which led to his part on The Wire, while he also attracted attention with a memorable role as an undercover police officer gone bad in the prison drama Oz (2000-01). He wound up gaining a master of fine arts degree at Yale Drama School in 1994, and two years later landed his first television role, on New York Undercover he debuted on-screen in 1998’s ill-judged modern-set Great Expectations. Photograph: Niko Tavernise/Thunder Road/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock Forced to lie in bed, he contemplated how he could support his family, and decided to turn to acting, where he noticed there were more auditions available. Crucially, on a night shift at a newspaper delivery depot, he injured his back shifting bundles of papers. He took a degree in composition at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music and moved to Boston, intending, in his words, to become a rock star.īut his style of music, influenced by Miles Davis and Sting, never fitted a rock star template, and having married his college sweetheart, Suzanne Louis, in 1986, and had two children, he found himself working odd jobs, including as a singing waiter on a riverboat. His musical talent was apparent at Friends School of Baltimore, and he went on to study at the city’s Peabody Institute, a secondary school specialising in the performing arts.

Reddick was born in Baltimore to Solomon, a lawyer, and Dorothy (nee Gee), a teacher. Reeves then handed him a note thanking him for “what he brought to the character of Charon”.īosch also afforded Reddick the chance to play the piano, thoughtfully improvising at home as if to sort out his thoughts this might be seen to reflect his own hard path to acting success. He was so good that the star of Wick, Keanu Reeves, given a day off from shooting for his birthday, told his girlfriend he wanted to visit the set, just to watch Reddick in action.

On film he was head of the secret service in Angel Has Fallen (2019), and he played Albert Wesker, boss of the Raccoon Police special tactics unit, in the Netflix TV adaptation of the zombie video game Resident Evil (2022). Reddick’s highlights in variations of authority-figure themes came in the TV series Fringe (2008-13), running a unit of Homeland Security Corporate (2018-20), as a CEO and Intelligence (2014), where he was head of the CIA.

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