Wendell Pierce
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) and 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
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Ray
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Stay Alive
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It Could Happen to You
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Hackers
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Becoming Frederick Douglass
(Frederick Douglass (voice))
The Fighting Temptations
(Reverend Lewis)
Night Catches Us
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New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
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The Gilded Six Bits
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Pariah
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Unnatural Pursuits
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The Mortician
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The 24 Hour Woman
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Don't Hang Up
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Four
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Parker
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Möbius
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The Wire Odyssey
(Self)
Elsa & Fred
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The Runner
(Frank Legrand)
A Hole in One
(Dan)
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
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Get on the Bus
(Wendell)
Foreclosure
(Virgil)
The Advocate's Devil
(Justin)
A Matter of Degrees
(Wells Dennard)
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
(John Saunders)
Tapping the Wire
(Self)
Selma
(Rev. Hosea Williams)
The Gift
(Detective Mills)
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
(Narrator (voice))
Superman
(Perry White)
Strapped
(District Attorney)
Bulworth
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Manhattan Murder Mystery
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Grease Live
(Coach Calhoun)
The Money Pit
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Confirmation
(Clarence Thomas)
Malcolm X
(Ben Thomas)
Bad Moms
(Principal Daryl Burr)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
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Piercing
(The Doctor)
Family Business
(Prosecutor)
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
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Life Support
(Slick)
Brown Sugar
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Sleepers
(Little Caesar)
Waiting to Exhale
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Rodents of Unusual Size
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Bye Bye Love
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Love Ranch
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Horrible Bosses
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I Think I Love My Wife
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Clemency
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Beyond All Boundaries
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One Last Thing
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Burning Cane
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King of the South
Runaway Hearts
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Abilene
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Between the World and Me
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The Forever Tree
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The Thrill Is On
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Some Old Black Man
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The Wire: The Last Word
(Self)
A Rage in Harlem
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Lay the Favorite
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Casualties of War
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A Plea for Modernism
(Narrator (voice))
Thunderbolts*
Untitled Jack Ryan Film
(James Greer)
Third Watch
(Officer Conrad 'Candyman' Jones)
Law & Order
(Roger Porter)
Numb3rs
The Wire
(Bunk Moreland)
Judging Amy
(Harry Benton)
Capital News
(Conrad White)
Girlfriends
My Wife and Kids
(Dr. Boucher)
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
(Richard Link)
Women's Murder Club
New York Undercover
The Equalizer
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Close to Home
Fear Itself
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In Plain Sight
New York News
Moloney
(Calvin Patterson)
Drop Dead Diva
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The Weber Show
(Wendell Simms)
Treme
(Antoine Batiste)
The Brian Benben Show
The Gregory Hines Show
The Michael J. Fox Show
(Harris Green)
Elsbeth
(Captain C.W. Wagner)
The Odd Couple
(Teddy)
Ray Donovan
(Ronald Keith)
Suits
(Robert Zane)
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
(Detective Lee Tucker)
Great Museums
Archer
(Verl (voice))
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
(Detective)
Tamron Hall
(Self - Guest)
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
(James Greer)
Law & Order
(Civil Rights Attorney Jerome Bryant)
Law & Order
(Ola-Gimju Nwaka)
Law & Order
(Mr. Wade)
Chicago P.D.
(Ray Price)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
(Self)
The Watch
(Death (voice))
God, the Devil and Bob
(Mike (voice))
Real Time with Bill Maher
(Self)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
(Self)
Hawthorne
(Dr. Michael Schilling)
The Night Shift
(Walt)
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
(Self - Guest)