Wendell Pierce
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
Credits
- 2025 · Superman as Perry White
- 2025 · Thunderbolts* as
- 2024 · Elsbeth as Captain C.W. Wagner
- 2022 · Becoming Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass (voice)
- 2022 · Be My Guest with Ina Garten as Self - Guest
- 2022 · Don't Hang Up as Chris Daniels
- 2021 · Some Old Black Man as Calvin Jones
- 2021 · The Watch as Death (voice)
- 2020 · Between the World and Me as Self
- 2019 · Clemency as Jonathan Williams
- 2019 · Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
- 2019 · Burning Cane as Reverend Tillman
- 2019 · Piercing as The Doctor
- 2018 · 27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon as Self - Narrator
- 2018 · Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan as James Greer
- 2018 · One Last Thing as Dylan
- 2018 · Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. as Detective Lee Tucker
- 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 Late Show with Stephen Colbert as
- 2015 · The Runner as Frank Legrand
- 2015 · The Gift as Detective Mills
- 2015 · Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band as Andy Kirk (voice)
- 2015 · The Odd Couple as Teddy
- 2014 · Selma as Rev. Hosea Williams
- 2014 · The Night Shift as Walt
- 2014 · Elsa & Fred as Armande
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · Foreclosure as Virgil
- 2014 · Chicago P.D. as Ray Price
- 2014 · Runaway Hearts as Paul
- 2013 · The Michael J. Fox Show as Harris Green
- 2013 · Four as Joe
- 2013 · Ray Donovan as Ronald Keith
- 2013 · Möbius as Bob
- 2013 · Parker as Carlson
- 2012 · The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as J. Jenks
- 2012 · Lay the Favorite as Dave the Rave
- 2011 · Horrible Bosses as Detective Hagan
- 2011 · Suits as Robert Zane
- 2011 · The Mortician as Clinger
- 2011 · A Plea for Modernism as Narrator
- 2010 · Night Catches Us as David Gordon
- 2010 · Love Ranch as Naasih Mohammed
- 2010 · New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music as Narrator
- 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
- 2008 · In Plain Sight as
- 2007 · The Wire: The Last Word as Himself
- 2007 · The Wire Odyssey as Self
- 2007 · Women's Murder Club as
- 2007 · Tapping the Wire as Self
- 2007 · Pariah as Arthur
- 2007 · Life Support as Slick
- 2007 · I Think I Love My Wife as Sean
- 2007 · Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! as Detective
- 2006 · When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts as Self
- 2006 · Stay Alive as Detective Thibodeaux
- 2005 · Close to Home as
- 2005 · Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Richard Link
- 2005 · Numb3rs as
- 2004 · Ray as Wilbur Brassfield
- 2004 · Land of Plenty as Henry
- 2004 · A Hole in One as Dan
- 2003 · The Fighting Temptations as Reverend Lewis
- 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- 2002 · Brown Sugar as Simon
- 2002 · The Wire as Bunk Moreland
- 2001 · My Wife and Kids as Dr. Boucher
- 2001 · The Gilded Six Bits as Otis D. Slimmons
- 2000 · The Weber Show as Wendell Simms
- 2000 · Girlfriends as
- 2000 · God, the Devil and Bob as Mike (voice)
- 1999 · Third Watch as Officer Conrad 'Candyman' Jones
- 1999 · Third Watch as Conrad 'Candyman' Jones
- 1999 · Judging Amy as Harry Benton
- 1999 · Abilene as Reverend Tillis
- 1999 · The 24 Hour Woman as Roy Labelle
- 1998 · The Brian Benben Show as
- 1998 · Bulworth as Fred
- 1997 · The Advocate's Devil as Justin
- 1997 · The Gregory Hines Show as
- 1996 · Sleepers as Little Caesar
- 1996 · Get on the Bus as Wendell
- 1996 · Moloney as Calvin Patterson
- 1996 · Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story as John Saunders
- 1995 · Waiting to Exhale as Michael
- 1995 · New York News as
- 1995 · Hackers as S.S. Agent Richard Gill
- 1995 · Bye Bye Love as Hector
- 1994 · New York Undercover as
- 1994 · It Could Happen to You as Bo Williams
- 1993 · Strapped as District Attorney
- 1993 · Manhattan Murder Mystery as Policeman
- 1992 · Malcolm X as Ben Thomas
- 1992 · Unnatural Pursuits as Cabbie
- 1991 · A Matter of Degrees as Wells Dennard
- 1991 · A Rage in Harlem as Louis
- 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
- Future · Great Museums as
- Future · King of the South as
- Future · Untitled Jack Ryan Film as James Greer
- Future · The Thrill Is On as B.B. King