{"id":2207887,"date":"2025-12-21T21:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2207887"},"modified":"2025-12-21T21:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:24:11","slug":"james-ransone-who-played-ziggy-sobotka-on-the-wire-dies-at-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/james-ransone-who-played-ziggy-sobotka-on-the-wire-dies-at-46\/","title":{"rendered":"James Ransone, Who Played Ziggy Sobotka on \u2018The Wire,\u2019 Dies at 46"},"content":{"rendered":"

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James Ransone<\/a>, an American actor best known for playing Ziggy Sobotka in \u201cThe Wire<\/a>\u201d and Eddie Kaspbrak in \u201cIt: Chapter Two<\/a>,\u201d died by hanging on Friday, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. He was 46.<\/p>\n

Ransone appeared as the dock worker-turned-petty criminal, Chester \u201cZiggy\u201d Sabotka, in 12 episodes of \u201cThe Wire<\/a>\u201d Season 2. Over the course of his arc, Ziggy was easily pushed around by other low-level criminals and his fellow cargo checkers. After being delivered one too many indignities, Ziggy snaps and takes out his partner in a fit of rage. Horrified at his actions, he waits for the police…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Ransone, an American actor best known for playing Ziggy Sobotka in \u201cThe Wire\u201d and Eddie Kaspbrak in \u201cIt: Chapter Two,\u201d died by hanging on Friday, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. He was 46. Ransone appeared as the dock worker-turned-petty criminal, Chester \u201cZiggy\u201d Sabotka, in 12 episodes of \u201cThe Wire\u201d Season 2. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2207888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2207887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/James-Ransone-Who-Played-Ziggy-Sobotka-on-\u2018The-Wire-Dies.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207889,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207887\/revisions\/2207889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}