1963-12-08 ( 61 years old ) in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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.
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Movies
Superman
2025-07-09
Thunderbolts*
2025-04-30
Becoming Frederick Douglass
2022-10-11
Don't Hang Up
2022-03-20
Some Old Black Man
2021-01-15
Between the World and Me
2020-11-21
Clemency
2019-12-27
Burning Cane
2019-04-25
Piercing
2019-01-03
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
2018-12-11
One Last Thing
2018-06-13
Rodents of Unusual Size
2017-11-15
The Forever Tree
2017-05-02
Bad Moms
2016-07-28
Confirmation
2016-04-16
Grease Live
2016-01-31
The Runner
2015-08-07
The Gift
2015-07-31
Selma
2014-12-25
Elsa & Fred
2014-03-07
Foreclosure
2014-02-03
Runaway Hearts
2014-01-01
Four
2013-09-13
Möbius
2013-02-17
Parker
2013-01-23
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
2012-11-13
Lay the Favorite
2012-06-22
Horrible Bosses
2011-07-08
The Mortician
2011-02-15
A Plea for Modernism
2011-01-01
Night Catches Us
2010-12-03
Love Ranch
2010-06-30
New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
2010-04-18
Beyond All Boundaries
2009-11-09
Something with Bite
2009-01-03
The Wire: The Last Word
2007-12-27
The Wire Odyssey
2007-12-20
2000: Bunk and McNulty
2007-12-05
Tapping the Wire
2007-07-01
Pariah
2007-04-19
Life Support
2007-03-10
I Think I Love My Wife
2007-03-07
Stay Alive
2006-03-24
Ray
2004-10-29
Land of Plenty
2004-09-10
A Hole in One
2004-05-02
The Fighting Temptations
2003-09-19
Brown Sugar
2002-10-05
The Gilded Six Bits
2001-02-18
Abilene
1999-03-13
The 24 Hour Woman
1999-01-29
Bulworth
1998-05-15
The Advocate's Devil
1997-10-05
Sleepers
1996-10-18
Get on the Bus
1996-10-16
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
1996-04-02
Waiting to Exhale
1995-12-22
Hackers
1995-09-14
Bye Bye Love
1995-03-16
It Could Happen to You
1994-07-29
Strapped
1993-08-21
Manhattan Murder Mystery
1993-05-02
Malcolm X
1992-11-18
Unnatural Pursuits
1992-01-01
A Matter of Degrees
1991-09-13
A Rage in Harlem
1991-05-03
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
1991-03-06
Family Business
1989-12-06
Casualties of War
1989-08-18
The Money Pit
1986-03-26
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