Raymond Reddington
Raymond Reddington is a male television character that features in The Blacklist.
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Biography
Raymond Reddington attended the United States Naval Academy, graduating top of his class at the age of 24, and was being groomed for Admiral when he disappeared while coming home to visit his family for Christmas in 1990. 4 years later, he resurfaced, selling classified documents to the enemy. Over the next 20 years he built a syndicate of contacts: spies, thieves, smugglers, drug dealers, people smugglers, human traffickers, arms dealers, forgers, hackers, mercenaries, and assassins. During this time, U.S. assets located in Moscow, Islamabad, and Beijing were compromised. He infiltrated the private sector, and there was no industry that was out of his reach, including technology, shipping, communications, security/military contracting and pharmaceuticals. Eventually he went from just selling secrets to also starting wars, toppling governments, and influencing geo-politics to suit his needs. He became known as "The Concierge of Crime" due to his ability to arrange deals between the various black market factions. He was ranked fourth on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list as an "arrest on sight" fugitive, as shown when he surrendered to the FBI. Reddington is a criminal mastermind, making it to #4 on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, who suddenly turns himself in after 20 years of evading the FBI. In Red's early days as a criminal, he was under the mentorship of criminal Robert Vesco. As Red himself put it, Vesco taught him how to be a fugitive. Vesco later tricked Red of out of his life savings by convincing him to invest in a cattle ranch at Paraguay that was actually a brothel outside of Asuncion. After that incident, Raymond Reddington become a protege of Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) operative Ivan Stepanov in exchange for the latter's providing information about the Soviets. Stepanov would later become his ally and close friend. In 1991, unbeknownist to himself, Red was blamed for the bombing of a meeting of Russian intelligence leaders in Kursk. After the bombing, a woman named Zoe D'Antonio was arrested as a dissident. For her acts, her father Milos Kirchoff was later exiled to a gulag. While he was in jail, Milos started receiving what he thought were pieces of his daughter’s body. Milos vowed to get his revenge on Reddington. However, unknown to both Milos and Red, Red was being framed by Alan Fitch and Stanley R. Kornish. This series of misinformation eventually led to a gang war between Berlin’s and Reddington’s syndicates. In 1992, Red and Sebastian Royce robbed the American Embassy in Italy.
Four years later he resurfaced in 1994, selling classified documents to the enemy, and was charged with treason in absentia. He built a syndicate of contacts: spies, thieves, smugglers, drug traffickers, people smugglers, human traffickers, arms traffickers, counterfeiters, forgers, hackers, mercenaries, and assassins. During this time, U.S. assets located in Moscow, Islamabad, and Beijing were compromised. He infiltrated the private sector, and there was no industry that was out of his reach, including technology, shipping, communications, security/military contracting and pharmaceuticals. Eventually he went from just selling secrets to starting wars, toppling governments, and influencing geopolitics to suit his needs. He became known as “the Concierge of Crime” due to his ability to arrange deals in the black market. He was ranked fourth, and later first, on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He had Hans Koehler perform plastic surgery on his face and has changed his original appearance to that of Raymond Reddington. It is revealed that Katarina Rostova had arranged for “Red” to go through the operation. In 1995, Reddington found then 14-year-old Dembe Zuma chained in a basement in Nairobi, Kenya. He took Dembe and raised him as his own. It most likely was around this time that Red learned of the Mombasa Cartel. In Bolivia 1997, Red and T. Earl King VI took part in some sort of deal. Red abandoned the deal due to the risk, but King stayed because he had invested millions of dollars. After Red left, soldiers attacked the area and severely injured King. King partially blamed Red since he left him.
Overview
Personality and attributes
He promises to help catch them all with the caveat that Liz continues to work as his partner.
Powers and abilities
In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists he believes matter the most; a blacklist of politicians, mobsters, spies and international terrorists.
Notes
- Raymond Reddington was created by Jon Bokenkamp and was portrayed by actor James Spader where he featured in the setting of The Blacklist universe.
- For his portrayal, Spader was nominated for Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama and Saturn award for Best Actor in a Television Series
Appearances
- The Blacklist:
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