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Lance Reddick Biography

Lance Reddick (born December 31, 1962) 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 Abaddon in the fourth and fifth seasons of Lost. Additionally, Reddick provided both the voice and likeness for video game characters Martin Hatch in Quantum Break and Sylens in Horizon Zero Dawn. He voices the character Commander Zavala in the Destiny video game franchise.

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Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

Cheaper, Cheaply, Friendly, Quality, Tech, Way

A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn't really flatline much. When I did The Wire, that's when I thought all the doors would open, but that's when things flatlined. I had a really hard time just getting seen for film, which was the next step.

Climb, Film, Hard Times, Open, Wire

What's interesting is, most of the people who are fans of the The Wire who black people or cops. . . most of the people in the industry are the crew: writers, actors and directors. And so they understand what it is that we do, so they think, "Wow, what a incredible group of amazing actors. " It's funny, I think there are a couple of reasons why we have never gotten any nomination for anything except for writing.

Couple, Writing, Thinking, Industry, Nomination, Reasons

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire. ' It was historical. It was black cinema.

Black, Historical, Nothing, Top, Wire

As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.

Character, Color, Creating, Opportunity

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

American, Job, Jobs, Journalism, Stuff

Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.

Character, Characters, Different, Played, Transform

I feel like my public life isn't necessarily my own. I'm starting to get used to how to maneuver and operate in New York in a way that I don't get stopped all the time. I just pretty much say "Thank you. " But one of the things is to try to keep moving. Not to stop too long, because people try to get into a conversation with you all the time. The hardest thing is on the subway, or when people try to chase you down.

Moving, Long, People, Maneuver, Public

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

Actor, Actors, Growing, Growing Up, Imagined, Would Be

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.

Artist, Hard, Rocks, See, Stars, Stylistically

I'm an artist at heart.

Artist, Heart

I graduated in '94 from Yale and New York Undercover was my first gig on TV. I was really all over the place with roles, which is what I wanted to do.

Gig, Graduated, Place, Undercover, Yale, York

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.

Character, Drama, Early, Like, Played, School

Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.

Ifs, Make, Movies, Victim, Want

I started to realize, a lot of times if you go into your memory, your sense memory, you know more than you think you do, from having watched and listened.

Know, Memories, Memory, Realizing, Thinking, Watched

I did an Off-Broadway show that was a comedy written by Ann Meara. We were like a family, and we did that show for a year. On Oz, I did feel like the cast members were friends and there was a lot of bonding. That said, there was a lot of testosterone. Once again, it was full of really intense theater actors with this writing that was really intricate and subtle.

Bonding, Comedy, Intense, Writing

I was coming from a theater background. I had an obsession with classic film and cool, interesting, intelligent television. I didn't really understand the way the mainstream television industry worked. I just thought "The wire is so good that it's going to be a huge hit, and we'll get awards up the yin-yang forever. " That's what I thought!

Intelligent, Interesting, Forever, Huge, Film

That's what David Caruso said to me. We were talking about the whole Emmy thing, and he said that one of the things about awards in this town is that a lot is about the drama - like the drama of the performance. And he said "Your show, The Wire, looks so real, it almost looks like a documentary. And people who aren't artists - a lot of people who vote for this stuff - don't get it. "

Artist, Drama, Real, Said, Things, Town

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

African, African American, American, Community, Entertainment

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

Audition, Auditions, Instinct, Notes, Right

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