
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 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 · Sherri as Self - Guest
- 2022 · Be My Guest with Ina Garten as Self - Guest
- 2021 · The Watch as Death (voice)
- 2019 · Harley Quinn as Lex Luthor (voice)
- 2019 · Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
- 2018 · Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan as James Greer
- 2018 · Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. as Detective Lee Tucker
- 2016 · Bad Moms as Principal Daryl Burr
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · The Gift as Detective Mills
- 2015 · The Odd Couple as Teddy
- 2014 · Selma as Rev. Hosea Williams
- 2014 · The Night Shift as Walt
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · Chicago P.D. as Ray Price
- 2013 · The Michael J. Fox Show as Harris Green
- 2013 · Ray Donovan as Ronald Keith
- 2013 · Parker as Carlson
- 2012 · The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as J. Jenks
- 2011 · Horrible Bosses as Detective Hagan
- 2011 · Suits as Robert Zane
- 2010 · Treme as Antoine Batiste
- 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 · Women's Murder Club as
- 2007 · Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! as Detective
- 2006 · When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts as Self
- 2005 · Close to Home as
- 2005 · Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Richard Link
- 2005 · Numb3rs as
- 2004 · Ray as Wilbur Brassfield
- 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- 2002 · The Wire as Bunk Moreland
- 2001 · My Wife and Kids as Dr. Boucher
- 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 · Judging Amy as Harry Benton
- 1998 · The Brian Benben Show as
- 1997 · The Gregory Hines Show as
- 1996 · Sleepers as Little Caesar
- 1995 · Hackers as S.S. Agent Richard Gill
- 1994 · New York Undercover as
- 1994 · It Could Happen to You as Bo Williams
- 1992 · Malcolm X as Ben Thomas
- 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
- 1989 · Casualties of War as MacIntire
- 1986 · The Money Pit as Paramedic
- 1985 · The Equalizer as Dr. Wolff
- Future · Great Museums as
- 2022 · Becoming Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass (voice)
- 2022 · Don't Hang Up as Chris Daniels
- 2021 · Some Old Black Man as Calvin Jones
- 2020 · Between the World and Me as Self
- 2019 · Clemency as Jonathan Williams
- 2019 · Burning Cane as Reverend Tillman
- 2019 · Piercing as The Doctor
- 2018 · 27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · One Last Thing as Dylan
- 2017 · Rodents of Unusual Size as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · The Forever Tree as Doctor Willow
- 2016 · Confirmation as Clarence Thomas
- 2016 · Grease Live as Coach Calhoun
- 2015 · The Runner as Frank Legrand
- 2015 · Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band as Andy Kirk (voice)
- 2014 · Elsa & Fred as Armande
- 2014 · Foreclosure as Virgil
- 2014 · Runaway Hearts as Paul
- 2013 · Four as Joe
- 2013 · Möbius as Bob
- 2012 · Lay the Favorite as Dave the Rave
- 2011 · The Mortician as Clinger
- 2011 · A Plea for Modernism as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · Night Catches Us as David Gordon
- 2010 · Love Ranch as Naasih Mohammed
- 2010 · New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music as Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · Beyond All Boundaries as Sgt. Thomas McPhatter
- 2009 · Something with Bite as Wilbur Orwell
- 2007 · The Wire: The Last Word as Self
- 2007 · The Wire Odyssey as Self
- 2007 · 2000: Bunk and McNulty as Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland
- 2007 · Tapping the Wire as Self
- 2007 · Pariah as Arthur
- 2007 · Life Support as Slick
- 2007 · I Think I Love My Wife as Sean
- 2006 · Stay Alive as Detective Thibodeaux
- 2004 · Land of Plenty as Henry
- 2004 · A Hole in One as Dan
- 2003 · The Fighting Temptations as Reverend Lewis
- 2002 · Brown Sugar as Simon
- 2001 · The Gilded Six Bits as Otis D. Slimmons
- 1999 · Abilene as Reverend Tillis
- 1999 · The 24 Hour Woman as Roy Labelle
- 1998 · Bulworth as Fred
- 1997 · The Advocate's Devil as Justin
- 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 · Bye Bye Love as Hector
- 1993 · Strapped as District Attorney
- 1993 · Manhattan Murder Mystery as Policeman
- 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 · Capital News as Conrad White
- 1989 · Family Business as Prosecutor
- Future · Jack Ryan: The Movie as James Greer
- Future · King of the South as
- Future · The Thrill Is On as B.B. King