{"id":195735,"date":"2025-12-22T02:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195735\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T02:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:51:09","slug":"actor-james-ransone-dies-age-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195735\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor James Ransone dies age 46"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Ransone, the actor who played Ziggy Sobotka in the HBO series The Wire and appeared in many other TV shows and movies, has died. He was 46.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner\u2019s office said in online records that Ransone died by suicide on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ransone\u2019s film credits include It: Chapter Two, The Black Phone and Black Phone 2, and he appeared in TV shows including the cop drama Bosch and Poker Face.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wtgh-suicide-helplines-depression-youthline-lifeline-PYWLZGFFA5HBPBQ5HV6CPI2BOM.png\" alt=\"Where to get help.\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Where to get help. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>Messages seeking comment were left for representatives of Ransone, as well as with a spokesperson for the medical examiner&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Ransone, the actor who played Ziggy Sobotka in the HBO series The Wire and appeared in many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,64,417,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-195735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-television","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}