John Wick 1-4 (2014-2023)
Keanu Reeves as the retired assassin. Action choreography that reshaped contemporary American action cinema.
Actor: Lance Reddick
Lance Reddick played Cedric Daniels across five seasons of The Wire, a police commander navigating an institution designed to prevent good work, and the stillness he brings to it is the character.
John Wick gave him Charon, the concierge, across four films, and Fringe and Bosch gave him further television. He was a trained classical and jazz musician with a degree in composition, and released an album. He died in 2023 at sixty.