Wendell Pierce

Acting

Born Dec 08, 1963

From 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.

Wendell Pierce

Known For

Superman

Thunderbolts*

Sleepers

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

Parker

Horrible Bosses

Ray

Highest 2 Lowest

Malcolm X

Bad Moms

Filmography — Acting

Superman

Thunderbolts*

Sleepers

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

Parker

Horrible Bosses

Ray

Highest 2 Lowest

Malcolm X

Bad Moms

Hackers

The Gift

The Money Pit

Selma

It Could Happen to You

Casualties of War

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War

Bulworth

Piercing

Waiting to Exhale

Stay Alive

Möbius

Love Ranch

Brown Sugar

Clemency

Elsa & Fred

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Grease Live

The Fighting Temptations

Lay the Favorite

The Runner

Family Business

Confirmation

Bye Bye Love

Beyond All Boundaries

I Think I Love My Wife

Get on the Bus

Abilene

Strapped

Land of Plenty

A Rage in Harlem

Life Support

The Wire: The Last Word

The Advocate's Devil

Between the World and Me

One Last Thing

Night Catches Us

The Wire Odyssey

The Mortician

Pariah

Four

A Hole in One

Foreclosure

The 10 Million Dollar Getaway

Tapping the Wire

King of the South

A Matter of Degrees

Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story

The 24 Hour Woman

Unnatural Pursuits

Don't Hang Up

They Fight

Becoming Frederick Douglass

Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band

Burning Cane

Runaway Hearts

Rodents of Unusual Size