Life and Career
Reddick attended Friends High School in Baltimore, Maryland, graduating in 1980. As a teenager, he studied music both at the Peabody Preparatory Institute, and a summer program teaching music theory and composition, The Walden School. After attending the Eastman School of Music, he moved to Boston in the 1980s, then enrolled in the Yale School of Drama in 1991.
Reddick joined ABC's hit series Lost in 2008, where he played Matthew Abaddon, an employee of Charles Widmore, in multiple episodes. He was the third of five actors from Oz to star in the drama (along with Harold Perrineau, Ken Leung, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Fred Koehler). Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have said they were interested in Reddick for the part of Mr. Eko but he was unavailable due to filming The Wire so they approached Akinnuoye-Agbaje instead.
Reddick released his debut album Contemplations & Remembrances in 2007 and in early 2008 he was cast in a key role for the pilot of Fringe in which fellow Oz actor Kirk Acevedo also had a regular role. Reddick plays Phillip Broyles, the head of an FBI department investigating paranormal activities. Reddick described the hard-driving character as "a real ass. But he's also one of the good guys." Like Lost, Fringe is co-created and produced by J. J. Abrams.
There was some doubt about whether Reddick could appear in both Lost and Fringe in the 2008-09 television season. However, Abrams stated that while being a series regular on Fringe, he would do episodes of Lost whenever required.
He has also appeared in a 2007 Cadillac TV advertisement.
He recently did some voice acting for a new cartoon based on the Tron universe, Tron Uprising.
He also stars in the YouTube web series DR0NE, on which he is a co-producer.
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