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.
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as Perry White
as J. Jenks
as S.S. Agent Richard Gill
as Little Caesar
as Prosecutor
as Carlson
as Principal Daryl Burr
as Detective Thibodeaux
as Simon
as Bob
as Frank Legrand
as Ben Thomas
as The Doctor
as Bo Williams
as Fred
as Joe
as Wilbur Brassfield
as Slick
as Paramedic
as District Attorney
Producer
as Roger Porter
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as Civil Rights Attorney Jerome Bryant
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as Ola-Gimju Nwaka
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as Mr. Wade
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as Ray Price
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as Robert Zane
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1 episodes
as Self
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as Self
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as Bunk Moreland
60 episodes
as James Greer
30 episodes
as Verl (voice)
1 episodes
as Self
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as Officer Conrad 'Candyman' Jones
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as Ronald Keith
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as William Bradford
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as C.W. Wagner
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as Dr. Wolff
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as Lex Luthor (voice)
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as Harry Benton
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