


Only his hotheaded Irish vigilante in "Boondock" and a scruff munitions maker in "Blade II" broke from the mold. Instead, he disrupted the lives of characters around him, bringing tension and harm to Kate Hudson in "Gossip," Stephen Dorff in "Deuces Wild" (2002), and others. Handsome enough to model, which he did throughout the '90s, Reedus nevertheless projected an air of distance and possible danger, which excluded him from traditional hero roles. Projecting a carefully poised air of elegant dissolution since the late 1990s, actor Norman Reedus essayed fringe dwellers, true believers and sinister types in "The Boondock Saints" (1999), "Gossip" (2000) and "Blade II" (2002) before settling into character roles in independent films and television, including the hit "The Walking Dead" (AMC, 2010- ).
