{"id":704608,"date":"2025-12-21T23:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:51:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:51:20","slug":"james-ransone-the-wire-and-it-chapter-two-actor-dies-at-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/james-ransone-the-wire-and-it-chapter-two-actor-dies-at-46\/","title":{"rendered":"James Ransone, \u2018The Wire\u2019 and \u2018It: Chapter Two\u2019 Actor, Dies at 46"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tJames Ransone, most known for his roles in The Wire<\/em>, It: Chapter Two<\/em> and The Black Phone<\/em>, died on Dec. 19. He was 46.<\/p>\n

\n\tRansone died by suicide, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn on June 2,\u00a01979, in Baltimore, Maryland, Ransone studied at the George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology<\/a> before attending the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan for a year.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe earned his first onscreen credit in 2001\u2019s The American Astronaut<\/em>, but he scored his most notable role in The Wire <\/em>in 2003. He played Chester \u2018Ziggy\u2019 Sobotka in season two of the HBO drama, which centered on street-level drug dealing to the\u00a0Port of Baltimore.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2019, Ransone starred as Eddie Kaspbrak in It: Chapter Two<\/em>, alongside Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader and Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd. In the sequel, set 27 years after the first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club had grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back.<\/p>\n

\n\tRansone also played Max in 2021\u2019s The Black Phone<\/em> and 2025\u2019s Black Phone 2<\/em>, starring Mason Thames and Ethan Hawke. The first installment centered on a 13-year-old boy who\u2019s being held in a soundproof basement by a sadistic, masked killer. When a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring, he soon discovers that he can hear the voices of the murderer\u2019s previous victims.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong Ransone\u2019s dozens of other acting credits were Poker Face<\/em>, SEAL Team<\/em>, Deadwax<\/em>, The First<\/em>, Mosaic<\/em>, It Happ<\/a>ened In L.A.<\/em>, Bosch<\/em>, Sinister 2<\/em>, Oldboy<\/em>, Low Winter Sun<\/em>, Empire State<\/em>, Treme<\/em>, Sinister<\/em>, How to Make It in America<\/em>, Hawaii Five-0<\/em>, Generation Kill<\/em>, Law & Order<\/em>, Nola<\/em> and Third Watch<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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James Ransone, most known for his roles in The Wire, It: Chapter Two and The Black Phone, died on Dec. 19. He was 46. Ransone died by suicide, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. Born on June 2,\u00a01979, in Baltimore, Maryland, Ransone studied at the George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-mediaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}