Place of Birth:
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Date of Birth:
12/8/1963
Wendell Edward Pierce (born December 8, 1962) 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.
Land of Plenty
Ray
Stay Alive
It Could Happen to You
Hackers
Becoming Frederick Douglass
The Fighting Temptations
Night Catches Us
New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
The Gilded Six Bits
Pariah
Unnatural Pursuits
The Mortician
The 24 Hour Woman
Don't Hang Up
Four
Parker
Möbius
The Wire Odyssey
Elsa & Fred
The Runner
A Hole in One
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Get on the Bus
Foreclosure
The Advocate's Devil
A Matter of Degrees
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
Tapping the Wire
Selma
The Gift
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
Superman
Strapped
Bulworth
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Grease Live
The Money Pit
Confirmation
Malcolm X
Bad Moms
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Piercing
Family Business
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
Life Support
Brown Sugar
Sleepers
Waiting to Exhale
Rodents of Unusual Size
Bye Bye Love
Love Ranch
Horrible Bosses
I Think I Love My Wife
Clemency
Beyond All Boundaries
One Last Thing
Burning Cane
King of the South
Runaway Hearts
Abilene
Between the World and Me
The Forever Tree
The Thrill Is On
Some Old Black Man
The Wire: The Last Word
A Rage in Harlem
Lay the Favorite
Casualties of War
A Plea for Modernism
Thunderbolts*
Untitled Jack Ryan Film
2000: Bunk and McNulty