Wendell Pierce
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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.
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Credits
Thunderbolts* (2025)
as Congressman Gary
Superman (2025)
as Perry White
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War (2026)
as James Greer
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
as J. Jenks
Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
as Gabe
Sleepers (1996)
as Little Caesar
Hackers (1995)
as S.S. Agent Richard Gill
Horrible Bosses (2011)
as Detective Hagan
Bad Moms (2016)
as Principal Daryl Burr
Malcolm X (1992)
as Ben Thomas
Ray (2004)
as Wilbur Brassfield
It Could Happen to You (1994)
as Bo Williams
Parker (2013)
as Carlson
The Gift (2015)
as Detective Mills
They Fight (2026)
as Slim
The Money Pit (1986)
as Paramedic
Casualties of War (1989)
as MacIntire
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
as Policeman
Waiting to Exhale (1995)
as Michael
Selma (2014)
as Rev. Hosea Williams
Bulworth (1998)
as Fred
Stay Alive (2006)
as Detective Thibodeaux
I Think I Love My Wife (2007)
as Sean
Family Business (1989)
as Prosecutor
Lay the Favorite (2012)
as Dave the Rave
Möbius (2013)
as Bob
The Fighting Temptations (2003)
as Reverend Lewis
The Runner (2015)
as Frank Legrand
Piercing (2019)
as The Doctor
Brown Sugar (2002)
as Simon
A Rage in Harlem (1991)
as Louis
Beyond All Boundaries (2009)
as Sgt. Thomas McPhatter
Get on the Bus (1996)
as Wendell Perry
Grease Live (2016)
as Coach Calhoun
Confirmation (2016)
as Clarence Thomas
Burning Cane (2019)
as Reverend Tillman
Bye Bye Love (1995)
as Hector
Land of Plenty (2004)
as Henry
Elsa & Fred (2014)
as Armande
Clemency (2019)
as Jonathan Williams
Love Ranch (2010)
as Naasih Mohammed
Life Support (2007)
as Slick
Strapped (1993)
as District Attorney
Between the World and Me (2020)
as Self
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Affair (—)
as Detective Marcus Hill
Runaway Hearts (2015)
as Paul
Foreclosure (2014)
as Virgil
Tapping the Wire (2007)
as Self
One Last Thing (2018)
as Dylan
A Hole in One (2004)
as Dan
The Mortician (2011)
as Clinger
Night Catches Us (2010)
as David Gordon
Pariah (2007)
as Arthur
The Wire: The Last Word (2007)
as Self
Something with Bite (2009)
as Wilbur Orwell
Unnatural Pursuits (1992)
as Cabbie
The Wire Odyssey (2007)
as Self
The 24 Hour Woman (1999)
as Roy Labelle
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band (2015)
as Andy Kirk (voice)
A Matter of Degrees (1991)
as Wells Dennard
Rodents of Unusual Size (2017)
as Narrator (voice)
The Advocate's Devil (1997)
as Justin
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story (1996)
as John Saunders
Becoming Frederick Douglass (2022)
as Frederick Douglass (voice)
Don't Hang Up (2022)
as Chris Daniels
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon (2018)
as Narrator (voice)
King of the South (—)
Actor
The Forever Tree (2017)
as Doctor Willow
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway (1991)
as Parnell "Stacks" Edwards
Four (2013)
as Joe
The Gilded Six Bits (2001)
as Otis D. Slimmons
The Thrill Is On (—)
as B.B. King
Abilene (1999)
as Reverend Tillis
New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music (2010)
as Narrator (voice)
2000: Bunk and McNulty (2007)
as Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland
A Plea for Modernism (2011)
as Narrator (voice)