Wendell Pierce posted on X, “Sorry I couldn’t be there for you, brother. Rest in Peace James Ransone.”
Director Spike Lee shared a photo of them together and wrote on Instagram: “Rest In Peace To My Dear Brother, MR. JAMES RANSONE. We Rocked Together On RED HOOK SUMMER And INSIDE MAN.”
Sean Baker, the Oscar-winning director of Anora who worked with Ransone on the films Starlet (2012) and Tangerine (2015), wrote, “I’ll miss you dearly my friend.”
Madeleine McGraw, who starred with Ransone in The Black Phone and its sequel, remembered Ransone as “such a beautiful soul” and “so genuinely supportive.”
“I’m struggling to put into words the profound emptiness I’m feeling since learning of James Ransone’s passing,” she wrote on her Instagram story. “My heart is absolutely shattered.”
Natasha Lyonne, who starred alongside Ransone in Poker Face, wrote, “Love you with everything I got and holding our beloved brilliant peejo with grace gratitude and cosmic peace into this life and the next – family forever.”
A GoFundMe has been established to assist Ransone’s wife and two children.
Rest in peace, James Ransone.
