Wendell Pierce
Known for: Acting
Born: December 8, 1963
Place of birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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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Filmography
76 movies · 49 TV shows, newest first
3.8
They Fight
2026
6.9
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
2026
5.9
The American Revolution
2025
5.5
Highest 2 Lowest
2025
7.3
Superman
2025
7.3
Thunderbolts*
2025
6.7
Elsbeth
2024
4.7
Becoming Frederick Douglass
2022
2.6
Sherri
2022
7.7
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
2022
NR
Don't Hang Up
2022
5.4
The Watch
2021
7.9
Between the World and Me
2020
6.3
Clemency
2019
8.3
Harley Quinn
2019
4.5
Tamron Hall
2019
5.7
Burning Cane
2019
5.7
Piercing
2019
NR
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
2018
7.7
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
2018
6.5
One Last Thing
2018
6.8
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
2018
7.6
Rodents of Unusual Size
2017
2.0
The Forever Tree
2017
6.5
Bad Moms
2016
6.9
Confirmation
2016
7.1
Grease Live
2016
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
4.9
The Runner
2015
6.7
The Gift
2015
8.0
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015
5.8
The Odd Couple
2015
7.0
Runaway Hearts
2015
7.4
Selma
2014
7.5
The Night Shift
2014
5.9
Elsa & Fred
2014
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
NR
Foreclosure
2014
8.4
Chicago P.D.
2014
5.9
The Michael J. Fox Show
2013
5.2
Four
2013
7.5
Ray Donovan
2013
5.7
Möbius
2013
6.1
Parker
2013
6.5
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
2012
5.2
Lay the Favorite
2012
6.6
Horrible Bosses
2011
8.2
Suits
2011
5.1
The Mortician
2011
NR
A Plea for Modernism
2011
5.4
Night Catches Us
2010
5.4
Love Ranch
2010
NR
New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
2010
7.6
Treme
2010
6.8
Beyond All Boundaries
2009
7.9
Archer
2009
7.7
Drop Dead Diva
2009
7.0
Hawthorne
2009
NR
Something with Bite
2009
6.8
Fear Itself
2008
7.0
In Plain Sight
2008
1.5
The Wire: The Last Word
2007
7.1
The Wire Odyssey
2007
NR
2000: Bunk and McNulty
2007
7.7
Women's Murder Club
2007
8.0
Tapping the Wire
2007
4.5
Pariah
2007
5.6
Life Support
2007
5.3
I Think I Love My Wife
2007
7.2
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
2007
7.5
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006
5.8
Stay Alive
2006
5.9
Close to Home
2005
8.1
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
7.0
Numb3rs
2005
7.5
Ray
2004
6.2
Land of Plenty
2004
5.0
A Hole in One
2004
5.8
The Fighting Temptations
2003
6.1
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
6.6
Brown Sugar
2002
8.6
The Wire
2002
7.4
My Wife and Kids
2001
7.0
The Gilded Six Bits
2001
8.2
The Weber Show
2000
7.3
Girlfriends
2000
7.4
God, the Devil and Bob
2000
7.9
Third Watch
1999
7.5
Judging Amy
1999
10.0
Abilene
1999
5.8
The 24 Hour Woman
1999
8.0
The Brian Benben Show
1998
6.3
Bulworth
1998
5.9
The Advocate's Devil
199710.0
The Gregory Hines Show
1997
7.6
Sleepers
1996
6.4
Get on the Bus
19966.0
Moloney
1996
8.0
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
1996
6.2
Waiting to Exhale
1995
7.0
New York News
1995
6.4
Hackers
1995
6.0
Bye Bye Love
1995
7.3
New York Undercover
1994
6.7
It Could Happen to You
1994
5.9
Strapped
1993
7.3
Manhattan Murder Mystery
1993
7.6
Malcolm X
1992
NR
Unnatural Pursuits
19924.4
A Matter of Degrees
1991
5.5
A Rage in Harlem
19916.4
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
1991NR
The General Motors Playwrights Theater
1991
7.3
Law & Order
1990
6.5
Capital News
1990
5.7
Family Business
1989
7.2
Casualties of War
1989
5.6
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
6.5
The Money Pit
1986
7.1
The Equalizer
1985NR
King of the South
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NR
The Thrill Is On
—NR
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Affair
—
NR
Great Museums
—NR
The People v. Gorilla Grodd
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