
Wendell Pierce
Born December 8, 1963 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Wendell Edward Pierce (born December 8, 1963) is an American actor and businessman. Having trained at Juilliard School, Pierce rose to prominence as a character actor portraying roles on both stage and screen. He first gained recognition portraying the role of Detective Bunk Moreland in the acclaimed HBO drama series The Wire from 2002 to 2008. His other notable television roles include the trombonist Antoine Batiste in Treme (2010–2013), James Greer in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018–2023), the attorney Robert Zane in Suits (2013–2019), and Clarence Thomas in Confirmation (2016). He earned Independent Spirit Awards nominations for his film roles in Four (2012) and Burning Cane (2019), on which he also served as a producer. Other notable film roles include Malcolm X (1992), Waiting to Exhale (1995), Ray (2004), Selma (2014), The Gift (2015), and Clemency (2019). Pierce made his Broadway debut in John Pielmeier's 1985 play The Boys of Winter, followed by Caryl Churchill's Serious Money in 1988. As a theatrical producer, he earned a Tony Award for Best Play nomination for August Wilson's Radio Golf (2007), then won for Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park (2012). He performed the lead role of Willy Loman in the revival of Death of a Salesman on the West End in London in 2019 and on Broadway in New York in 2022, for which he earned Laurence Olivier Award and Tony Award nominations. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wendell Pierce, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies

Superman

Thunderbolts*

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

Highest 2 Lowest

Sleepers

Horrible Bosses

Hackers

Bad Moms

The Money Pit

The Gift

Ray

Parker

Malcolm X

It Could Happen to You

Casualties of War

Waiting to Exhale

They Fight

Selma

I Think I Love My Wife

Stay Alive

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Lay the Favorite

Bulworth

Get on the Bus

The Runner

Family Business

A Rage in Harlem

Confirmation

Elsa & Fred

Grease Live

Land of Plenty

Brown Sugar

The Fighting Temptations

Love Ranch

Between the World and Me

Bye Bye Love

Möbius

Beyond All Boundaries

The Wire: The Last Word

A Hole in One
TV Shows

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Real Time with Bill Maher

Suits

Sherri

Numb3rs

Third Watch

Archer

Judging Amy

Elsbeth

The Tamron Hall Show

The Wire

The Equalizer

Girlfriends

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

Harley Quinn

In Plain Sight

Drop Dead Diva

Ray Donovan

New York Undercover

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

Close to Home

My Wife and Kids

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

The Night Shift

Treme

Fear Itself

The Odd Couple

The Michael J. Fox Show

New York News

Women's Murder Club

Hawthorne

Be My Guest with Ina Garten

Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.

The American Revolution

Capital News

God, the Devil and Bob

The Watch

The Weber Show

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

The Brian Benben Show

Great Museums
More Movies

The Advocate's Devil

Becoming Frederick Douglass

Something with Bite

The 24 Hour Woman

Life Support

Clemency

Runaway Hearts

Piercing

Don't Hang Up

Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story

Burning Cane

Night Catches Us

The Wire Odyssey

The Mortician

The Gilded Six Bits

One Last Thing

Pariah

Strapped

2000: Bunk and McNulty

Foreclosure

Tapping the Wire

Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band

Unnatural Pursuits

Rodents of Unusual Size

New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music

Four

Abilene

The Forever Tree

27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon

The Thrill Is On




