{"id":38188,"date":"2025-12-21T23:59:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/james-ransone-us-actor-known-for-the-wire-dies-aged-46\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:59:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:59:38","slug":"james-ransone-us-actor-known-for-the-wire-dies-aged-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/james-ransone-us-actor-known-for-the-wire-dies-aged-46\/","title":{"rendered":"James Ransone, US actor known for The Wire, dies aged 46"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA medical examiner reports Ransone, who played Chester \u2018Ziggy\u2019 Sobotka in the HBO crime drama, died by suicide<\/p>\n<p>James Ransone, the American actor best known for his work in 12 episodes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/wire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Wire<\/a>, has died in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/los-angeles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Information from the Los Angeles medical examiner indicated Ransone, 46, died on Friday from suicide.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/21\/james-ransone-the-wire-actor-dead\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA medical examiner reports Ransone, who played Chester \u2018Ziggy\u2019 Sobotka in the HBO crime drama, died by suicide James Ransone, the American actor best known for his work in 12 episodes of The Wire, has died in Los Angeles. Information from the Los Angeles medical examiner indicated Ransone, 46, died on Friday from suicide. Continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 18:21:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}