Wendell Pierce
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
125
Gender
Male
Birthday
1963-12-08 (62 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
Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order
Suits
Chicago P.D.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Third Watch
The Wire
Superman
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Real Time with Bill Maher
Archer
Numb3rs
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Ray Donovan
Thunderbolts*
Girlfriends
Judging Amy
Elsbeth
Sherri
The Equalizer
Harley Quinn
Tamron Hall
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Drop Dead Diva
My Wife and Kids
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
In Plain Sight
Close to Home
Stay Alive
New York Undercover
Möbius
Life Support
The Night Shift
The Runner
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Strapped
Highest 2 Lowest
Burning Cane
Lay the Favorite
Fear Itself
The Michael J. Fox Show
Clemency
Bad Moms
Bulworth
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
New York News
Sleepers
Hackers
Treme
The American Revolution
Parker
Runaway Hearts
The Odd Couple
Foreclosure
Night Catches Us
Horrible Bosses
Bye Bye Love
Women's Murder Club
Ray
Malcolm X
Becoming Frederick Douglass
Abilene
Hawthorne
The Money Pit
Casualties of War
Four
It Could Happen to You
God, the Devil and Bob
The Gift
Selma
The Watch
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
Pariah
Capital News
Waiting to Exhale
The Weber Show
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
The Forever Tree
Manhattan Murder Mystery
I Think I Love My Wife
The Fighting Temptations
Family Business
Grease Live
Moloney
They Fight
The Brian Benben Show
Brown Sugar
King of the South
Love Ranch
Elsa & Fred
Confirmation
The Gregory Hines Show
Piercing
Get on the Bus
A Rage in Harlem
The Wire Odyssey
The Wire: The Last Word
Land of Plenty
Beyond All Boundaries
The 24 Hour Woman
Untitled Jack Ryan Film
The Advocate's Devil
One Last Thing
Tapping the Wire
The Mortician
Great Museums
A Hole in One
Between the World and Me
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
Rodents of Unusual Size
Don't Hang Up
The Gilded Six Bits
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
2000: Bunk and McNulty
A Matter of Degrees
Unnatural Pursuits
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
The Thrill Is On
New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
A Plea for Modernism
