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