He also provided voice work on Season 2 of Amazon’s “The Legend of Vox Machina,” which released in January. More recently, Reddick starred as Albert Wesker last year on Netflix’s short-lived series “Resident Evil,” an adaptation of the popular zombie video game. He played deputy chief Irvin Irving and was nominated for a Saturn Award for the role, after earning two nods for “Fringe.” In 2014, he was cast as another police chief, but this time on Amazon’s “Bosch” series, which ended in 2021. The group investigated cases relating to fringe science, pseudoscience and alternate timelines.

In the show’s finale, he resigned from his post as commissioner and became a criminal defense lawyer.Īfter “The Wire” ended in 2008, Reddick joined “Fringe” later that year as Phillip Broyles, a special agent for Homeland Security and head of the Fringe division. Daniels was in charge of the narcotics division and slowly rose through its ranks during the show’s five-season run, butting heads frequently with his superiors. He had previously auditioned for the roles of Bubbles (which went to Andre Royo) and William “Bunk” Moreland (Wendell Pierce). HBO later cast him as Baltimore police lieutenant Cedric Daniels, one of the leads, on “The Wire” in 2002. After being sent to Oz, Basil gets stabbed to death by Seth Gilliam’s character Clayton Hughes.

He played Detective Johnny Basil, an undercover officer who tries to shut down the drug trade but soon becomes an addict himself and murders a corrupt cop by pushing him down an elevator shaft.

His first major TV role came during Season 4 of HBO’s prison drama “Oz” in 2000. He moved to Boston in the ’80s and earned a Master of Fine Arts from Yale in 1994. He studied music composition and earned a Bachelor of Music from the University of Rochester. Known for playing hardened police chiefs and other men of authority, Reddick was born in Baltimore on June 7, 1962.

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