Lance Reddick is an American theater, film and TV actor and musician born in Baltimore, Maryland. He starred in The Wire as Cedric Daniels, appeared in Oz as Detective Johnny Basil and appeared in the fourth and fifth seasons of Lost. He now has a prominent role in Fringe. Previously Reddick also starred in two episodes of Law & Order. Reddick attended Friends High School in Baltimore, Maryland, graduating in 1980. As a teenager, he studied music both at the Peadbody Preparatory Institute, and a summer program teaching music theory and composition, The Walden School. After attending the... Eastman School of Music, he moved to Boston in the 1980s, then enrolled in the Yale School of Drama in 1991. 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 four actors from Oz to star in the drama . 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.
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