Lance Reddick’s ‘precarious position’
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Lance Reddick doesn’t get to smile a lot on the job.
As federal agent Phillip Broyles in Fox’s hit drama “Fringe,’ he is icy -- and possibly sinister -- as the head of an interagency team investigating a pattern of bizarre, deadly incidents.
Flip the channel and you might also catch the Baltimore-born-and-raised actor in his recurring role as the stern and smartly dressed Matthew Abaddon, whose last name may be a fearful omen for the survivors of the plane crash of ABC’s “Lost.’
And he was rarely happy in his best-known role as the ambitious Lt. Cedric Daniels in HBO’s ‘The Wire,’ where his character was trapped between the political miasma of the Baltimore Police Department and the never-ending wave of drug dealers wreaking havoc in the inner city.
Given his strait-laced gallery of characters, it’s almost surprising to see Reddick flash a real smile away from the cameras. In fact, he’s almost unrecognizable from his on-screen personas, appearing younger, less worldly and a bit self-conscious.
(Photo by Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)