{"id":363850,"date":"2025-12-22T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363850\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:28:13","slug":"it-chapter-two-sinister-actor-james-ransone-has-died-at-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363850\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It: Chapter Two,&#8217; &#8216;Sinister&#8217; Actor James Ransone Has Died at 46"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Ransone, who played the adult version of Eddie Kaspbrak in It: Chapter Two, died by suicide on Friday. He was 46.<\/p>\n<p>A frequent collaborator of Scott Derrickson, Ransone co-starred in Sinister, Sinister 2, The Black Phone, Black Phone 2, and V\/H\/S\/85.<\/p>\n<p>His other horror credits include Kristy, Prom Night (2008), Family Blood, and \u201cDeadwax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outside the genre, Ransone was known for playing Ziggy Sobotka in the second season of \u201cThe Wire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ransone also appeared in Tangerine, Oldboy (2013), \u201cGeneration Kill,\u201d In a Valley of Violence, Inside Man, The Next Three Days, and \u201cTreme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ransone\u2019s wife, Jamie McPhee, wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSisLfbElmV\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, \u201cI told you I have loved you 1000 times before and I know I will love you again. You told me \u2013 I need to be more like you and you need to be more like me \u2013 and you were so right. Thank you for giving me the greatest gifts \u2013 you, Jack and Violet. We are forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/supporting-jamie-jack-and-violet-after-loss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gofundme<\/a> has been set up to support Jamie and their two young children.<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts, call the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 for free, confidential support 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3923053\" data-attachment-id=\"3923053\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/news\/3923047\/it-chapter-two-sinister-actor-james-ransone-has-died-at-46\/attachment\/jamesransone-it\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JamesRansone-it.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"JamesRansone-it\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;James Ransone in \u2018It: Chapter Two\u2019&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JamesRansone-it.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JamesRansone-it.jpg?fit=740%2C416&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3923053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JamesRansone-it.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3923053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Ransone in \u2018It: Chapter Two\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Ransone, who played the adult version of Eddie Kaspbrak in It: Chapter Two, died by suicide on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,2852,178813,206,112397,130642],"class_list":{"0":"post-363850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-it","10":"tag-james-ransone","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-sinister","13":"tag-the-black-phone"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}