Lance Reddick Biography

Lance Reddick (born June 7, 1962) is an American theater, film and TV actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Cedric Daniels in The Wire and Phillip Broyles in Fringe. He is also known for playing Detective Johnny Basil on Oz, the cable TV drama series about the fictional Oswald State Correctional Facility and for his appearances as Matthew Abbadon in the fourth and fifth seasons of Lost. Previously Reddick also starred in two episodes of Law & Order.

Life and career

Reddick was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Friends High School in Baltimore, graduating in 1980. As a teenager, he studied music both at the Peabody Preparatory Institute and a summer program teaching music theory and composition at The Walden School. After attending the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, he moved to Boston in the 1980s, then enrolled in the Yale School of Drama in 1991.

He was cast as Cedric Daniels in the acclaimed HBO series The Wire after having also auditioned for the roles of Bubbles and Bunk Moreland.

Reddick joined ABC's hit series Lost in 2008, where he played Matthew Abaddon, an employee of Charles Widmore, in multiple episodes. He was the third of five actors from the HBO hit series, Oz to star in the drama (along with Harold Perrineau, Ken Leung, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Fred Koehler). Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have said they were interested in Reddick for the part of Mr. Eko but he was unavailable due to filming The Wire so they approached Akinnuoye-Agbaje instead.

Reddick released his debut album Contemplations & Remembrances in 2007 and in early 2008 he was cast in a key role for the pilot of Fringe in which fellow Oz actor Kirk Acevedo also had a regular role. Reddick played Phillip Broyles, the head of an FBI department investigating paranormal activities. Reddick described the hard-driving character as "a real ass. But he's also one of the good guys." Like Lost, Fringe is co-created and produced by J. J. Abrams.

There was some doubt about whether Reddick could appear in both Lost and Fringe in the 2008-09 television season. However, Abrams stated that while being a series regular on Fringe, he would do episodes of Lost whenever required.

Reddick's acting career has been a combination of stage, TV and film. In 2013, he was in the thriller, White House Down.

Personal life

Reddick currently resides in Los Angeles, CA with his wife, Stephanie. In addition to his acting career, Reddick also stars in the YouTube web series DR0NE, of which he is a co-producer. He is also a promoter for Cree Light Bulbs.

Filmography

Film and Television
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1996	New York Undercover	Oscar Griffin	Episode The Enforcers
	Swift Justice	Jim Stark	Episode Bad Medicine
1997	The Nanny	Stage hand	Episode Fair Weather Fran
	What the Deaf Man Heard	George Thacker	TV movie
1998	Great Expectations	Anton Le Farge
	The Fixer	Tyrell Holmes	TV Movie
	Witness to the Mob	Foreman Trial 2	TV movie
	Godzilla	Soldier on Manhattan Bridge	Uncredited
	The Siege	FBI Agent Floyd Rose
1999	The West Wing	D.C. Police Officer	Episode In Excelsis Deo
2000	Falcone	Det. Willis Simms	Episodes Windows, That's Amore and But Not Forgotten
	I Dreamed of Africa	Simon
	The Corner	Marvin	Episodes Corner Boy Blues and Everyman's Blues
2000"2001	Oz	Desmond Mobay / John Basil / Det. Johnny Basil	12 episodes
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Dr. Taylor	6 episodes
2001	Don't Say a Word	Arnie
2001"2004	Law & Order	Capt. Gasana / FBI Special Agent Jamal Atkinson	Episodes Soldier of Fortune and City Hall
2002	Bridget	Black
	Keep the Faith, Baby	J. Raymond Jones	TV Movie
	100 Centre Street	Kwame Sekou	Episode Fathers
2002"2008	The Wire	Lt. / Maj. / Col. Cedric Daniels	58 episodes
2003	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Jack Bernard	Episode Probability
2004	Brother to Brother	James Baldwin
2005	Independent Lens	James	Episode Brother to Brother
2005"2006	CSI: Miami	FBI Agent David Park	Episodes Vengeance, 10-7 and One of Our Own
2006	Dirty Work	Manning
2007	Numb3rs	Lieutenant Steve Davidson	Episode End of Watch
2008	Tennessee	Frank
2008"2009	Lost	Matthew Abaddon	4 episodes
2008"2013	Fringe	Phillip Broyles	85 episodes
2009	The Way of War	The Black Man
2010	Jonah Hex	Smith
	Svetlana	Lance	Episode Snatchengil for the Stars
2011	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Reggie	Episode Frank's Brother
	Steve Niles' Remains	Ramsey
2012	Won't Back Down	Charles Alberts
	The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes	Falcon	Episode "Nightmare in Red"
	Tron: Uprising	Cutler	Various Episodes
	Drone	Nissen	YouTube film
2013	St. Sebastian	Ives
	Beware the Batman	Ra's al Ghul	Voice role
	White House Down	General Caulfield
	Oldboy	Daniel Newcombe
2014	Search Party		Post-production
201?	The Guest		Filming

Discography

• (2007) Contemplations & Remembrances