LOS ANGELES \u2014 James Ransone, the actor who played Ziggy Sobotka in the HBO series \u201cThe Wire\u201d and appeared in many other TV shows and movies, has died. He was 46.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner\u2019s office said in online records that Ransone died by suicide on Friday.<\/p>\n
Ransone\u2019s film credits include \u201cIt: Chapter Two,\u201d \u201cThe Black Phone\u201d and \u201cBlack Phone 2,\u201d and he appeared in TV shows including the cop drama \u201cBosch\u201d and \u201cPoker Face.\u201d<\/p>\n
Messages seeking comment were left for representatives of Ransone on Sunday, as well as with a spokesperson for the medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
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EDITOR\u2019S NOTE \u2014 In the U.S., the national suicide and crisis lifeline is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/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 triblive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LOS ANGELES \u2014 James Ransone, the actor who played Ziggy Sobotka in the HBO series \u201cThe Wire\u201d and appeared in many other TV shows and movies, has died. He was 46. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner\u2019s office said in online records that Ransone died by suicide on Friday. Ransone\u2019s film credits include \u201cIt: Chapter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2208026,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2208025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Actor-James-Ransone-known-for-his-role-in-\u2018The-Wire.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208025","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=2208025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208027,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208025\/revisions\/2208027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2208026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}