Wendell Pierce
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.
122 acting credits
Acting · 122
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
2026
Law & Order
1990
Suits
2011
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Chicago P.D.
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
2018
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Third Watch
1999
Numb3rs
2005
The Wire
2002
Judging Amy
1999
Archer
2009
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Equalizer
1985
Ray Donovan
2013
Elsbeth
2024
Sherri
2022
Superman
2025
Close to Home
2005
Harley Quinn
2019
Girlfriends
2000
Drop Dead Diva
2009
Tamron Hall
2019
New York Undercover
1994
Thunderbolts*
2025
In Plain Sight
2008
My Wife and Kids
2001
The Night Shift
2014
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
2007
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
2012
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
Treme
2010
The Odd Couple
2015
Sleepers
1996
Fear Itself
2008
The American Revolution
2025
Hawthorne
2009
Highest 2 Lowest
2025
The Michael J. Fox Show
2013
New York News
1995
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
2018
Hackers
1995
Women's Murder Club
2007
Horrible Bosses
2011
Parker
2013
Capital News
1990
Ray
2004
God, the Devil and Bob
2000
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
2022
Malcolm X
1992
Bad Moms
2016
The Weber Show
2000
It Could Happen to You
1994
The Gift
2015
Moloney
1996
The Watch
2021
The Money Pit
1986
Casualties of War
1989
Selma
2014
Waiting to Exhale
1995
The Gregory Hines Show
1997
Bulworth
1998
Stay Alive
2006
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006
Piercing
2019
Love Ranch
2010
Lay the Favorite
2012
Brown Sugar
2002
Family Business
1989
The Brian Benben Show
1998
I Think I Love My Wife
2007
The Runner
2015
Möbius
2013
Manhattan Murder Mystery
1993
Beyond All Boundaries
2009
Clemency
2019
The Fighting Temptations
2003
Confirmation
2016
Elsa & Fred
2014
A Rage in Harlem
1991
Between the World and Me
2020
Strapped
1993
Bye Bye Love
1995
Grease Live
2016
Get on the Bus
1996
The Advocate's Devil
1997
The 24 Hour Woman
1999
Tapping the Wire
2007
Land of Plenty
2004
The Wire Odyssey
2007
Night Catches Us
2010
Life Support
2007
Abilene
1999
Four
2013
Great Museums
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The Wire: The Last Word
2007
One Last Thing
2018
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
1991
Foreclosure
2014
A Hole in One
2004
The Mortician
2011
A Matter of Degrees
1991
Rodents of Unusual Size
2017
King of the South
—
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
1996
Pariah
2007
They Fight
2026
Becoming Frederick Douglass
2022
Unnatural Pursuits
1992
Runaway Hearts
2015
Burning Cane
2019
Don't Hang Up
2022
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
2018
A Plea for Modernism
2011
2000: Bunk and McNulty
2007
The Thrill Is On
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The Gilded Six Bits
2001
The Forever Tree
2017
New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
2010
Fear Itself: Something with Bite
2009