ACTOR James Ransone who starred in The Wire has died at the age of 46, officials have confirmed.
The star was found dead at a property in Los Angeles on Friday.
Actor James Ransone has died aged 46Credit: Getty – Contributor
Ransone (middle) is best known for his role in TV drama The Wire and has had other roles including as Eddie Kaspbrak in IT Chapter TwoCredit: Warner Bros
His cause of death has been determined as suicide, according to the LA County Medical Examiner.
Ransone leaves behind his wife Jamie McPhee and two children.
McPhee has since shared a fundraiser for the National alliance on Mental Illness on her social media.
Ransone is best known for playing Ziggy Sobotka in The Wire, a television drama running from 2002 to 2008.
He starred in the second season of the show, playing Frank Sobotka’s dock worker son.
In total he appeared in 12 episodes in 2003 and has taken on a number of other television and film roles.
Shows he featured in include Generation Kill, Bosch, and Poker Face.
Meanwhile, he has starred in films like IT Chapter Two, Prom Night, Mr Right, and The Black Phone plus the sequel.
In 2021, Ransone revealed that he was a survivor of sexual abuse, claiming that a former tutor abused him for months as a child while growing up in Phoenix, Maryland in 1992.
He said at the time that the alleged abuse led to “a lifetime of shame and embarrassment” contributing to his struggled with alcohol and drugs.
In 2021, he spoke out about being a survivor of childhood sexual abuse that triggered addiction issuesCredit: Getty Images
Ransone got sober in 2006 and reported the sexual abuse in 2020 after “confronting his past”.
He was allegedly told by prosecutors later that year that no further investigation would take place and no charges were brought forward.
The same year he got sober, Ransone was hailed a hero for saving a woman from being raped outside his apartment in New York.
The actor was studying for an audition when he heard someone crying out for help and grabbed a metal bar before running outside and confronting the attacker.
“I did what anybody would have done,” he said at the time.
“I pictured my mom, my girlfriend and every girl I’ve ever loved and thought, ‘Vengeance is mine.’”
Tributes have poured in for Ransone, with fans calling him a “magnetic force of nature on and off screen”.
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“RIP James Ransone, an extraordinary presence in the film industry. You will be greatly missed,” one wrote.
