Wendell Pierce
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1963-12-08
Place of Birth
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Wendell Pierce
Biography
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.
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Stay Alive
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Hackers
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Becoming Frederick Douglass
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The Fighting Temptations
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Night Catches Us
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New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
Apr 18, 2010
The Gilded Six Bits
Feb 18, 2001
Pariah
Apr 19, 2007
Unnatural Pursuits
Jan 01, 1992
The Mortician
Feb 15, 2011
The 24 Hour Woman
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Don't Hang Up
Mar 20, 2022
Four
Sep 13, 2013
Parker
Jan 23, 2013
Möbius
Feb 17, 2013
The Wire Odyssey
Dec 20, 2007
Elsa & Fred
Mar 07, 2014
The Runner
Aug 07, 2015
A Hole in One
May 02, 2004
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Apr 01, 2015
Get on the Bus
Oct 16, 1996
Foreclosure
Feb 03, 2014
The Advocate's Devil
Oct 05, 1997
A Matter of Degrees
Sep 13, 1991
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
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Tapping the Wire
Jul 01, 2007
Selma
Dec 25, 2014
The Gift
Jul 31, 2015
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
Dec 11, 2018
Superman
Jul 09, 2025
Strapped
Aug 21, 1993
Bulworth
May 15, 1998
Manhattan Murder Mystery
May 02, 1993
Grease Live
Jan 31, 2016
The Money Pit
Mar 26, 1986
Confirmation
Apr 16, 2016
Malcolm X
Nov 18, 1992
Bad Moms
Jul 28, 2016
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Nov 13, 2012
Piercing
Jan 03, 2019
Family Business
Dec 06, 1989
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
Mar 06, 1991
Life Support
Mar 10, 2007
Brown Sugar
Oct 05, 2002
Sleepers
Oct 18, 1996
Waiting to Exhale
Dec 22, 1995
Rodents of Unusual Size
Nov 15, 2017
Bye Bye Love
Mar 16, 1995
Love Ranch
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Horrible Bosses
Jul 08, 2011
I Think I Love My Wife
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Clemency
Dec 27, 2019
Beyond All Boundaries
Nov 09, 2009
One Last Thing
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Burning Cane
Apr 25, 2019
King of the South
Runaway Hearts
Jan 01, 2014
Abilene
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Between the World and Me
Nov 21, 2020
The Forever Tree
May 02, 2017
The Thrill Is On
Some Old Black Man
Jan 15, 2021
The Wire: The Last Word
Dec 27, 2007
A Rage in Harlem
May 03, 1991
Lay the Favorite
Jun 22, 2012
Casualties of War
Aug 18, 1989
A Plea for Modernism
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Thunderbolts*
Apr 30, 2025
Untitled Jack Ryan Film
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Highest 2 Lowest
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Third Watch
Sep 23, 1999
Law & Order
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Numb3rs
Jan 23, 2005
The Wire
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Judging Amy
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Capital News
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Girlfriends
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My Wife and Kids
Mar 28, 2001
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Mar 03, 2005
Women's Murder Club
Oct 12, 2007
New York Undercover
Sep 08, 1994
The Equalizer
Sep 18, 1985
Close to Home
Sep 20, 2005
Fear Itself
Jun 05, 2008
In Plain Sight
Jun 01, 2008
New York News
Sep 28, 1995
Moloney
Sep 19, 1996
Drop Dead Diva
Jul 12, 2009
The Weber Show
Oct 26, 2000
Treme
Apr 11, 2010
The Brian Benben Show
Sep 21, 1998
The Gregory Hines Show
Sep 15, 1997
The Michael J. Fox Show
Sep 26, 2013
Elsbeth
Feb 29, 2024
The Odd Couple
Feb 19, 2015
Ray Donovan
Jun 30, 2013
Suits
Jun 23, 2011
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
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Great Museums
Archer
Sep 17, 2009
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Feb 11, 2007
Tamron Hall
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Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Aug 30, 2018
Law & Order
Sep 13, 1990
Law & Order
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Law & Order
Sep 13, 1990
Chicago P.D.
Jan 08, 2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
The Watch
Jan 03, 2021
God, the Devil and Bob
Mar 09, 2000
Real Time with Bill Maher
Feb 21, 2003
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Aug 21, 2006
Hawthorne
Jun 16, 2009
The Night Shift
May 27, 2014
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
Mar 26, 2022
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Sherri
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