Wendell Pierce(I)

Actor
Producer
Director

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Accused (2023– )

Wendell Edward Pierce is an American actor and businessman. He is known for roles in HBO dramas such as Detective Bunk Moreland in The Wire and trombonist Antoine Batiste in Treme; as well as portraying James Greer in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, high-powered attorney Robert Zane in Suits, and Michael Davenport in Waiting to Exhale. Pierce also had roles in the films Malcolm X, Ray, and Selma, and performed the lead role of Willy Loman in the 2019 revival of a play Death of a Salesman on the West End in London at the Piccadilly Theatre, which earned him a nomination for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play. He has been thrice nominated for Independent Spirit Awards.

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Awards
- 5 wins & 23 nominations

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Wendell Pierce and John Krasinski in Jack Ryan (2018)

Nina Hoss and Wendell Pierce in Our Death's Keeper (2022)

Michael Kelly and Wendell Pierce in Star on the Wall (2022)

Laurie Metcalf and Wendell Pierce in Koko kansan Bulworth (1998)

Wendell Pierce in Koko kansan Bulworth (1998)

Wendell Pierce in Take 5 With Wendell Pierce (2020)

Holt McCallany, Ken Olin, and Wendell Pierce in Petollinen asiakas (1997)

Ken Olin and Wendell Pierce in Petollinen asiakas (1997)

Known for:

Langalla

9.3

TV Series

Detective William 'Bunk' Moreland

Selma

7.5

Rev. Hosea Williams

2014

Kaameat pomot

6.9

Detective Hagan

2011

Rahareikä

6.4

Paramedic

1986

Credits

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Actor

Jack Ryan
8.0
TV Series
- James Greer
- 2018–2023
Accused
7.0
TV Series
- Detective Trent Douglas
- 2023
Eureka!
6.8
TV Series
- Sandy
- Cliff
- 2022–2023
Upgrade Soul
6.3
Podcast Series
- Hank (voice)
- 2022
Don't Hang Up
6.0
- Chris Daniels
- 2022
The Watch
5.5
TV Series
- Death (voice)
- 2020–2021
Chicago P.D.
8.1
TV Series
- Alderman Ray Price
- Ray Price
- 2017–2020
Pukumiehet
8.4
TV Series
- Robert Zane
- 2013–2019
Burning Cane
5.5
- Reverend Tillman
- 2019
Laupeus
6.5
- Jonathan Williams
- 2019
One Last Thing
6.4
- Dylan
- 2018
Unsolved
7.8
TV Mini Series
- Detective Lee Tucker
- 2018
Piercing
5.5
- The Doctor
- 2018
The Forever Tree
Short
- Dr. Willow
- 2017
Archer
8.6
TV Series
- Verl (voice)
- 2017

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Official site
- Twitter
Height
- 1.73 m
Born
- December 8, 1963
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Other works
(9/06) Stage: Appeared (as "Jim Bono") in "Fences" by August Wilson, Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena, CA.
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Trivia
According to the Marketplace radio program, in December, 2011, he opened Sterling Express, the first in a chain of grocery stores selling fresh produce and other staples in his hometown of New Orleans.

Quotes
Langalla (2002) really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of. If you see me on the street, feel free for the rest of my life to call me Bunk.