{"id":197094,"date":"2025-12-21T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/197094\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:20:07","slug":"james-ransome-star-of-the-wire-and-it-chapter-two-dies-at-age-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/197094\/","title":{"rendered":"James Ransome, star of The Wire and It: Chapter Two, dies at age 46"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">James Ransone, an actor best known for playing Ziggy Sobotka in The Wire and It: Chapter Two, has died at age 46, according to LA medical authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The actor died from suicide, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>If you or anyone you know needs help:<a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeline.org.au\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lifeline<\/a> on 13 11 14Aboriginal &amp; Torres Strait Islander crisis support line <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.13yarn.org.au\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">13YARN<\/a> on 13 92 76<a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mensline.org.au\/Home.html\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MensLine Australia<\/a> on 1300 789 978<a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Suicide Call Back Service<\/a> on 1300 659 467<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Ransone played the dock worker-turned-petty criminal throughout The Wire season two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He also played Eddie Kaspbrak in the horror anthology It, and had roles in HBO&#8217;s Generation Kill, indie film Tangerine, and Black Phone 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Ransone was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and throughout his career openly documented his struggles with heroin addiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In a <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/film\/james-ransone\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2016 interview<\/a>, he said he wrestled &#8220;with the catharsis of acting&#8221; due to the roles he leaned towards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;As a result of that I don&#8217;t always feel good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Ransone, an actor best known for playing Ziggy Sobotka in The Wire and It: Chapter Two, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,111796,111794,111793,111795],"class_list":{"0":"post-197094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-it-chapter-two","12":"tag-james-ransone","13":"tag-the-wire","14":"tag-ziggy-sobotka"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}