Wendell Pierce
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
123
Gender
Male
Birthday
1963-12-08 (61 years old)
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.
Known For
Superman
Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order
Suits
Chicago P.D.
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Real Time with Bill Maher
Archer
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Wire
Elsbeth
Thunderbolts*
Sherri
Numb3rs
Judging Amy
Highest 2 Lowest
Third Watch
Girlfriends
Ray Donovan
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Tamron Hall
The Equalizer
Drop Dead Diva
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Harley Quinn
New York Undercover
In Plain Sight
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Close to Home
My Wife and Kids
The Night Shift
Parker
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Treme
Malcolm X
Hackers
Horrible Bosses
The Odd Couple
Manhattan Murder Mystery
The Michael J. Fox Show
Selma
Sleepers
Hawthorne
Fear Itself
It Could Happen to You
Ray
The Runner
Bad Moms
Brown Sugar
Don't Hang Up
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
New York News
Becoming Frederick Douglass
The Money Pit
Women's Murder Club
The Wire: The Last Word
The Wire Odyssey
Family Business
Between the World and Me
Bye Bye Love
Love Ranch
Waiting to Exhale
Life Support
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
Piercing
The Gilded Six Bits
Casualties of War
Grease Live
Stay Alive
One Last Thing
Capital News
Möbius
Strapped
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
The Weber Show
The Watch
Four
Unnatural Pursuits
The Gift
Lay the Favorite
A Rage in Harlem
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Get on the Bus
God, the Devil and Bob
Abilene
The Gregory Hines Show
Moloney
Clemency
I Think I Love My Wife
Runaway Hearts
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Land of Plenty
The Advocate's Devil
The Brian Benben Show
A Hole in One
Beyond All Boundaries
Foreclosure
Bulworth
Adventures in the Making of Superman
The Fighting Temptations
Elsa & Fred
The 24 Hour Woman
Night Catches Us
Burning Cane
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
Pariah
Confirmation
The Mortician
Great Museums
2000: Bunk and McNulty
Untitled Jack Ryan Film
Tapping the Wire
A Plea for Modernism
King of the South
A Matter of Degrees
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
The Thrill Is On
New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
Rodents of Unusual Size
The Forever Tree
