James Ransone obituary

American actor known for playing Ziggy in the TV crime drama series The Wire and his many roles in modern horror films Anthem magazine called James Ransone “the perennial cool guy”, though it wasn’t quite that simple. Ransone, who has taken his own life aged 46, was a coiled, wiry actor whose remorseless stare and brooding good looks were complicated by a jangling vulnerability. He was a stalwart of modern horror, cropping up in a string of lucrative shockers. The most successful, with a box-office gross of more than $450m, was It Chapter Two (2019), which completed a two-part adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a group of friends terrorised since childhood by a murderous clown.