Wendell Pierce

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1963-12-08 (60 years old)

Place of Birth New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Also Known As 웬델 피어스, Wendell Edward Pierce

Wendell Pierce

Biography

Wendell Edward Pierce (born December 8, 1962) 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 for 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

Actor

The Thrill Is On

as B.B. King

2025
Superman

as Perry White

2024
Elsbeth

as Captain C.W. Wagner

2022
Becoming Frederick Douglass

as Frederick Douglass (voice)

2022
Don't Hang Up

as Chris Daniels

2022
2021
Some Old Black Man

as Calvin Jones

2021
The Watch

as Death (voice)

2019
Clemency

as Jonathan Williams

2019
Burning Cane

as Reverend Tillman

2019
Piercing

as The Doctor

2019
Tamron Hall

as Self - Guest

2018
2018
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

as James Greer

2017
Rodents of Unusual Size

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2017
The Forever Tree

as Doctor Willow

2016
Bad Moms

as Principal Daryl Burr

2016
Confirmation

as Clarence Thomas

2016
Grease Live

as Coach Calhoun

2015
The Runner

as Frank Legrand

2015
The Gift

as Detective Mills

2015
2014
Selma

as Rev. Hosea Williams

2014
Elsa & Fred

as Armande

2014
Foreclosure

as Virgil

2014
2014
2014
Chicago P.D.

as Ray Price

2013
Four

as Joe

2013
Möbius

as Bob

2013
Parker

as Carlson

2013
The Michael J. Fox Show

as Harris Green

2013
Ray Donovan

as Ronald Keith

2012
Lay the Favorite

as Dave the Rave

2011
Horrible Bosses

as Detective Hagan

2011
The Mortician

as Clinger

2011
2011
Suits

as Robert Zane

2010
Night Catches Us

as David Gordon

2010
Love Ranch

as Naasih Mohammed

2010
Treme

as Antoine Batiste

2009
Beyond All Boundaries

as Sgt. Thomas McPhatter

2009
Archer

as Verl (voice)

2009
Drop Dead Diva

as Neal David

2009
Hawthorne

as Dr. Michael Schilling

2008
Fear Itself

as Wiilbur Orwell

2007
2007
2007
Pariah

as Arthur

2007
Life Support

as Slick

2006
Stay Alive

as Detective Thibodeaux

2005
2004
Ray

as Wilbur Brassfield

2004
2004
2003
The Fighting Temptations

as Reverend Lewis

2002
Brown Sugar

as Simon

2002
The Wire

as Bunk Moreland

2001
The Gilded Six Bits

as Otis D. Slimmons

2001
My Wife and Kids

as Dr. Boucher

2000
The Weber Show

as Wendell Simms

2000
God, the Devil and Bob

as Mike (voice)

1999
Abilene

as Reverend Tillis

1999
The 24 Hour Woman

as Roy Labelle

1999
Third Watch

as Officer Conrad 'Candyman' Jones

1999
Third Watch

as Conrad 'Candyman' Jones

1999
Judging Amy

as Harry Benton

1998
Bulworth

as Fred

1997
1996
Sleepers

as Little Caesar

1996
Get on the Bus

as Wendell

1996
Moloney

as Calvin Patterson

1995
1995
Hackers

as S.S. Agent Richard Gill

1995
Bye Bye Love

as Hector

1994
It Could Happen to You

as Bo Williams

1993
Strapped

as District Attorney

1993
1992
Malcolm X

as Ben Thomas

1992
1991
A Matter of Degrees

as Wells Dennard

1991
1991
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway

as Parnell "Stacks" Edwards

1990
Law & Order

as Roger Porter

1990
Law & Order

as Civil Rights Attorney Jerome Bryant

1990
Law & Order

as Ola-Gimju Nwaka

1990
Law & Order

as Mr. Wade

1990
Capital News

as Conrad White

1989
Family Business

as Prosecutor

1989
Casualties of War

as MacIntire

1986
The Money Pit

as Paramedic

1985
The Equalizer

as Dr. Wolff

Producer

2019
Burning Cane

as Producer