Cast
Wendell Pierce
Acting
Cast
Wendell Pierce
Known for
Acting
Born
1963-12-08
From
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Also known as 웬델 피어스, Wendell Edward Pierce, وندل پیرس
Biography
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.
★7.0
MOVIE2026
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
as James Greer
★7.3
MOVIE2025
Superman
as Perry White
★7.3
MOVIE2025
Thunderbolts*
as Congressman Gary
★6.5
MOVIE2012
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
as J. Jenks
★1.0
MOVIE2026
They Fight
as Slim
★7.6
MOVIE1996
Sleepers
as Little Caesar
★6.4
MOVIE1995
Hackers
as S.S. Agent Richard Gill
★6.6
MOVIE2011
Horrible Bosses
as Detective Hagan
★5.5
MOVIE2025
Highest 2 Lowest
as Gabe
★6.1
MOVIE2013
Parker
as Carlson
★7.6
MOVIE1992
Malcolm X
as Ben Thomas
★7.5
MOVIE2004
Ray
as Wilbur Brassfield
★6.5
MOVIE2016
Bad Moms
as Principal Daryl Burr
★6.7
MOVIE1994
It Could Happen to You
as Bo Williams
★6.5
MOVIE1986
The Money Pit
as Paramedic
★7.2
MOVIE1989
Casualties of War
as MacIntire
★6.7
MOVIE2015
The Gift
as Detective Mills
★6.3
MOVIE1995
Waiting to Exhale
as Michael
★7.3
MOVIE1993
Manhattan Murder Mystery
as Policeman
★5.8
MOVIE2006
Stay Alive
as Detective Thibodeaux
★7.4
MOVIE2014
Selma
as Rev. Hosea Williams
★5.3
MOVIE2007
I Think I Love My Wife
as Sean
★6.3
MOVIE1998
Bulworth
as Fred
★5.7
MOVIE1989
Family Business
as Prosecutor
★5.8
MOVIE2003
The Fighting Temptations
as Reverend Lewis
★5.7
MOVIE2013
Möbius
as Bob
★4.9
MOVIE2015
The Runner
as Frank Legrand
★5.2
MOVIE2012
Lay the Favorite
as Dave the Rave
★6.8
MOVIE2009
Beyond All Boundaries
as Sgt. Thomas McPhatter
MOVIETBA
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Affair
as Detective Marcus Hill
★6.6
MOVIE2002
Brown Sugar
as Simon
★4.5
MOVIE2007
Pariah
as Arthur
★5.7
MOVIE2019
Piercing
as The Doctor
★7.0
MOVIE2016
Grease Live
as Coach Calhoun
★6.2
MOVIE2004
Land of Plenty
as Henry
★6.0
MOVIE1995
Bye Bye Love
as Hector
MOVIE2009
Something with Bite
as Wilbur Orwell
★5.9
MOVIE2014
Elsa & Fred
as Armande
★1.5
MOVIE2007
The Wire: The Last Word
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1996
Get on the Bus
as Wendell Perry
★7.9
MOVIE2020
Between the World and Me
as Self
★5.7
MOVIE2019
Burning Cane
as Reverend Tillman
★5.4
MOVIE1991
A Rage in Harlem
as Louis
MOVIE2014
Foreclosure
as Virgil
★6.6
MOVIE2007
The Wire Odyssey
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE2019
Clemency
as Jonathan Williams
★5.1
MOVIE2011
The Mortician
as Clinger
★5.9
MOVIE1993
Strapped
as District Attorney
★6.0
MOVIE1997
The Advocate's Devil
as Justin
★4.4
MOVIE1991
A Matter of Degrees
as Wells Dennard
★7.8
MOVIE2007
Tapping the Wire
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE2016
Confirmation
as Clarence Thomas
★5.6
MOVIE2007
Life Support
as Slick
★5.0
MOVIE2004
A Hole in One
as Dan
★5.8
MOVIE1999
The 24 Hour Woman
as Roy Labelle
★5.4
MOVIE2010
Night Catches Us
as David Gordon
MOVIETBA
King of the South
★6.5
MOVIE2018
One Last Thing
as Dylan
MOVIE2022
Don't Hang Up
as Chris Daniels
★7.0
MOVIE2015
Runaway Hearts
as Paul
MOVIE2007
2000: Bunk and McNulty
as Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland
★5.4
MOVIE2010
Love Ranch
as Naasih Mohammed
★5.3
MOVIE2013
Four
as Joe
MOVIE2011
A Plea for Modernism
as Narrator (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE1991
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
as Parnell "Stacks" Edwards
MOVIE1992
Unnatural Pursuits
as Cabbie
★4.7
MOVIE2022
Becoming Frederick Douglass
as Frederick Douglass (voice)
★10.0
MOVIE1999
Abilene
as Reverend Tillis
★8.0
MOVIE1996
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
as John Saunders
★2.0
MOVIE2017
The Forever Tree
as Doctor Willow
★7.0
MOVIE2001
The Gilded Six Bits
as Otis D. Slimmons
MOVIETBA
The Thrill Is On
as B.B. King
★7.6
MOVIE2017
Rodents of Unusual Size
as Narrator (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE2015
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
as Andy Kirk (voice)
MOVIE2010
New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2018
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
as Narrator (voice)