Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 08, 1963
Place of Birth
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Credits
124 titles
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
Filmography
They Fight
Slim
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
James Greer
The American Revolution
(voice)
Highest 2 Lowest
Gabe
Superman
Perry White
Thunderbolts*
Congressman Gary
Elsbeth
C.W. Wagner
Becoming Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (voice)
Sherri
Self - Guest
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
Self - Guest
Don't Hang Up
Chris Daniels
The Watch
Death (voice)
Between the World and Me
Self
Clemency
Jonathan Williams
Harley Quinn
Lex Luthor (voice)
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest
Burning Cane
Reverend Tillman
Piercing
The Doctor
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
Narrator (voice)
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
James Greer
One Last Thing
Dylan
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
Detective Lee Tucker
Rodents of Unusual Size
Narrator (voice)
The Forever Tree
Doctor Willow
Bad Moms
Principal Daryl Burr
Confirmation
Clarence Thomas
Grease Live
Coach Calhoun
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Runner
Frank Legrand
The Gift
Detective Mills
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Andy Kirk (voice)
The Odd Couple
Teddy
Runaway Hearts
Paul
Selma
Rev. Hosea Williams
The Night Shift
Walt
Elsa & Fred
Armande
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
Foreclosure
Virgil
Chicago P.D.
Ray Price
The Michael J. Fox Show
Harris Green
Four
Joe
Ray Donovan
Ronald Keith
Möbius
Bob
Parker
Carlson
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
J. Jenks
Lay the Favorite
Dave the Rave
Horrible Bosses
Detective Hagan
Suits
Robert Zane
The Mortician
Clinger
A Plea for Modernism
Narrator (voice)