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Ransone died by suicide, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n
Born on June 2, 1979, in Baltimore, Maryland, Ransone studied at the George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology before attending the School of Visual Arts<\/a> in Manhattan for a year.<\/p>\n He earned his first onscreen credit in 2001\u2019s The American Astronaut, but he scored his most notable role in The Wire<\/a> in 2003. He played Chester \u2018Ziggy\u2019 Sobotka in season two of the HBO drama, which centered on street-level drug dealing to the Port of Baltimore.<\/p>\n In 2019, Ransone starred as Eddie Kaspbrak in It: Chapter Two<\/a>, alongside Jessica Chastain<\/a>, James McAvoy<\/a>, Bill Hader<\/a> and Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a>. In the sequel, set 27 years after the first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise<\/a>, the Losers Club had grown up and moved away,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \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, 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, 1979, in Baltimore, Maryland, Ransone studied at the George Washington Carver Center for Arts and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2207891,"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":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2207890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","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-\u2018The-Wire-and-\u2018It-Chapter-Two-Actor-Dies.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207890","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=2207890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207892,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207890\/revisions\/2207892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}