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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 8, 1963
Place of Birth
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Also Known As
- 웬델 피어스
- Wendell Edward Pierce
- وندل پیرس
Wendell Pierce
1.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.2
voice
The American Revolution
2025
5.6
Gabe
Highest 2 Lowest
2025
🎬
8.5
Self
Adventures in the Making of Superman
2025
7.4
Perry White
Superman
2025
7.3
Congressman Gary
Thunderbolts*
2025
6.9
C.W. Wagner
Elsbeth
2024
6.5
Frederick Douglass (voice)
Becoming Frederick Douglass
2022
3.0
Self - Guest
Sherri
2022
7.0
Self - Guest
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
2022
0.0
Chris Daniels
Don't Hang Up
2022
Credits
The American Revolution
as voice
2025
5.2
Highest 2 Lowest
as Gabe
2025
5.6
🎬
Adventures in the Making of Superman
as Self
2025
8.5
Superman
as Perry White
2025
7.4
Thunderbolts*
as Congressman Gary
2025
7.3
Elsbeth
as C.W. Wagner
2024
6.9
Becoming Frederick Douglass
as Frederick Douglass (voice)
2022
6.5
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
3.0
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
as Self - Guest
2022
7.0
Don't Hang Up
as Chris Daniels
2022
0.0
The Watch
as Death (voice)
2021
5.3
Between the World and Me
as Self
2020
7.9
Clemency
as Jonathan Williams
2019
6.3
Harley Quinn
as Lex Luthor (voice)
2019
8.3
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
2019
4.9
Burning Cane
as Reverend Tillman
2019
5.7
Piercing
as The Doctor
2019
5.7
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
as Narrator (voice)
2018
0.0
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
as James Greer
2018
7.7
One Last Thing
as Dylan
2018
6.5
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
as Detective Lee Tucker
2018
6.8
Rodents of Unusual Size
as Narrator (voice)
2017
7.6
The Forever Tree
as Doctor Willow
2017
2.0
Bad Moms
as Principal Daryl Burr
2016
6.5
Confirmation
as Clarence Thomas
2016
6.9
Grease Live
as Coach Calhoun
2016
7.0
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
The Runner
as Frank Legrand
2015
4.8
The Gift
as Detective Mills
2015
6.7
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
as Andy Kirk (voice)
2015
8.0
The Odd Couple
as Teddy
2015
5.8
Runaway Hearts
as Paul
2015
7.0
Selma
as Rev. Hosea Williams
2014
7.4
The Night Shift
as Walt
2014
7.5
Elsa & Fred
as Armande
2014
6.0
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
Foreclosure
as Virgil
2014
0.0
Chicago P.D.
as Ray Price
2014
8.4
The Michael J. Fox Show
as Harris Green
2013
5.9
Four
as Joe
2013
5.3
Ray Donovan
as Ronald Keith
2013
7.5
Möbius
as Bob
2013
5.7
Parker
as Carlson
2013
6.1
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
as J. Jenks
2012
6.5
Lay the Favorite
as Dave the Rave
2012
5.2
Horrible Bosses
as Detective Hagan
2011
6.6
Suits
as Robert Zane
2011
8.2
The Mortician
as Clinger
2011
5.1
A Plea for Modernism
as Narrator (voice)
2011
0.0
Night Catches Us
as David Gordon
2010
5.3
Love Ranch
as Naasih Mohammed
2010
5.4
New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
as Narrator (voice)
2010
0.0
Treme
as Antoine Batiste
2010
7.6
Beyond All Boundaries
as Sgt. Thomas McPhatter
2009
6.8
Archer
as Verl (voice)
2009
8.0
Drop Dead Diva
as Neal David
2009
7.7
Hawthorne
as Dr. Michael Schilling
2009
7.2
Fear Itself
as Wiilbur Orwell
2008
6.7
In Plain Sight
as Dr. Warren McBride / Warren Morris
2008
7.0
The Wire: The Last Word
as Self
2007
1.5
The Wire Odyssey
as Self
2007
6.6
2000: Bunk and McNulty
as Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland
2007
0.0
Women's Murder Club
2007
7.9
Tapping the Wire
as Self
2007
7.3
Pariah
as Arthur
2007
2.7
Life Support
as Slick
2007
5.6
I Think I Love My Wife
as Sean
2007
5.3
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
as Detective
2007
7.4
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
as Self
2006
7.4
Stay Alive
as Detective Thibodeaux
2006
5.8
Close to Home
as Sam Carter
2005
5.9
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
as Richard Link
2005
8.1
Numb3rs
as William Bradford
2005
7.0
Ray
as Wilbur Brassfield
2004
7.4
Land of Plenty
as Henry
2004
6.1
A Hole in One
as Dan
2004
4.5
The Fighting Temptations
as Reverend Lewis
2003
5.7
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
6.0
Brown Sugar
as Simon
2002
6.6
The Wire
as Bunk Moreland
2002
8.6
My Wife and Kids
as Dr. Boucher
2001
7.4
The Gilded Six Bits
as Otis D. Slimmons
2001
0.0
The Weber Show
as Wendell Simms
2000
7.8
Girlfriends
as Anthony Jackson
2000
7.3
God, the Devil and Bob
as Mike (voice)
2000
7.5
Third Watch
as Officer Conrad 'Candyman' Jones
1999
7.9
Judging Amy
as Harry Benton
1999
7.5
Abilene
as Reverend Tillis
1999
0.0
The 24 Hour Woman
as Roy Labelle
1999
3.0
The Brian Benben Show
1998
0.0
Bulworth
as Fred
1998
6.3
The Advocate's Devil
as Justin
1997
5.7
🎬
The Gregory Hines Show
1997
0.0
Sleepers
as Little Caesar
1996
7.6
Get on the Bus
as Wendell
1996
6.3
🎬
Moloney
as Calvin Patterson
1996
2.0
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
as John Saunders
1996
0.0
Waiting to Exhale
as Michael
1995
6.2
New York News
1995
0.0
Hackers
as S.S. Agent Richard Gill
1995
6.4
Bye Bye Love
as Hector
1995
5.9
New York Undercover
1994
7.2
It Could Happen to You
as Bo Williams
1994
6.7
Strapped
as District Attorney
1993
5.7
Manhattan Murder Mystery
as Policeman
1993
7.3
Malcolm X
as Ben Thomas
1992
7.5
Unnatural Pursuits
as Cabbie
1992
0.0
🎬
A Matter of Degrees
as Wells Dennard
1991
3.5
A Rage in Harlem
as Louis
1991
5.4
🎬
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
as Parnell "Stacks" Edwards
1991
5.3
Law & Order
as Roger Porter
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Civil Rights Attorney Jerome Bryant
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Ola-Gimju Nwaka
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Mr. Wade
1990
7.4
Capital News
as Conrad White
1990
6.0
Family Business
as Prosecutor
1989
5.7
Casualties of War
as MacIntire
1989
7.1
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
The Money Pit
as Paramedic
1986
6.5
The Equalizer
as Dr. Wolff
1985
7.1
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
🎬
They Fight
as Slim
N/A
0.0
🎬
King of the South
N/A
0.0
Great Museums
N/A
0.0
🎬
Untitled Jack Ryan Film
as James Greer
N/A
0.0
The Thrill Is On
as B.B. King
N/A
0.0