Wendell Pierce
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
127
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
Superman
Chicago P.D.
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Wire
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Real Time with Bill Maher
Thunderbolts*
Sherri
Archer
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Ray Donovan
Tony Awards
Numb3rs
Girlfriends
Third Watch
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Judging Amy
Elsbeth
Tamron Hall
The Equalizer
My Wife and Kids
Harley Quinn
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Drop Dead Diva
In Plain Sight
Highest 2 Lowest
New York Undercover
Close to Home
The Night Shift
Elsa & Fred
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Treme
Hackers
Sleepers
Piercing
Parker
Bad Moms
The Runner
The American Revolution
Ray
Horrible Bosses
It Could Happen to You
Möbius
Stay Alive
Malcolm X
Love Ranch
The Odd Couple
Strapped
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Hawthorne
They Fight
Runaway Hearts
Casualties of War
Fear Itself
Abilene
Brown Sugar
Women's Murder Club
Life Support
Four
Burning Cane
Pariah
Family Business
Bulworth
Waiting to Exhale
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
The Michael J. Fox Show
The Money Pit
Foreclosure
Adventures in the Making of Superman
Clemency
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Selma
The Gift
One Last Thing
Land of Plenty
New York News
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Grease Live
Lay the Favorite
God, the Devil and Bob
The Watch
The Wire Odyssey
Capital News
The Weber Show
Bye Bye Love
Get on the Bus
Moloney
The Wire: The Last Word
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
A Hole in One
Beyond All Boundaries
Don't Hang Up
Night Catches Us
The Fighting Temptations
A Rage in Harlem
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
The Brian Benben Show
Between the World and Me
I Think I Love My Wife
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
The Gregory Hines Show
The Advocate's Devil
The 24 Hour Woman
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
The Gilded Six Bits
Becoming Frederick Douglass
Confirmation
Untitled Jack Ryan Film
Great Museums
The Mortician
A Matter of Degrees
The Forever Tree
Unnatural Pursuits
King of the South
Tapping the Wire
2000: Bunk and McNulty
Rodents of Unusual Size
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
A Plea for Modernism
The Thrill Is On
