Lance Reddick
Lance Reddick
Lance Reddick is an American actor and musician. He is best known for portraying Cedric Daniels in The Wire and Phillip Broyles in Fringe. He is also known for playing Detective Johnny Basil on Oz and Matthew Abbadon in the fourth and fifth seasons of Lost...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth31 December 1962
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
stress people dynamics
When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
real organization wire
The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
community african-american entertainment
The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.
historical black wire
Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.
auditions instinct notes
Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
drama school character
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
trying actors might
From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast.
stars artist rocks
You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
get-better progress
You either get better, or you don't progress.
mean actors want
I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.