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Wendell Edward Pierce is an American actor. He is known for his roles in HBO dramas such as Detective Bunk Moreland in The Wire and trombonist Antoine Batiste in Treme, as well as portraying James Greer in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, as high-powered attorney Robert Zane in Suits, and as Michael Davenport in Waiting to Exhale. Pierce also had roles in the films Malcolm X, Ray, and Selma. Pierce performed the lead role of Willy Loman in the 2019 production of Death of a Salesman on the West End in London at the Piccadilly Theatre.
Born
Sunday, 08 December 1963
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Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Superman | Perry White | 2025 |
| Elsbeth | Captain C.W. Wagner | 2024 |
| Accused | Detective Trent Douglas | 2023 |
| Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom | Frederick Douglass | 2022 |
| Sherri | Self | 2022 |
| Eureka! | Sandy / Cliff | 2022 |
| Don't Hang Up | Chris Daniels | 2022 |
| Inside the Black Box | Self | 2022 |
| Power Book III: Raising Kanan | Ishmael 'Snaps' Henry | 2021 |
| The Watch | Death | 2020 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Superman | Perry White | 2025 |
| Elsbeth | Captain C.W. Wagner | 2024 |
| Accused | Detective Trent Douglas | 2023 |
| Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom | Frederick Douglass | 2022 |
| Sherri | Self | 2022 |
| Eureka! | Sandy / Cliff | 2022 |
| Don't Hang Up | Chris Daniels | 2022 |
| Inside the Black Box | Self | 2022 |
| Power Book III: Raising Kanan | Ishmael 'Snaps' Henry | 2021 |
| The Watch | Death | 2020 |
| Between the World and Me | Self | 2020 |
| GMA3: What You Need to Know | Self | 2020 |
| Harry & Meghan: A Royal Crisis | Self - Actor | 2020 |
| Clemency | Jonathan Williams | 2019 |
| 2019 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Self - Presenter | 2019 |
| Tamron Hall | Self - Guest | 2019 |
| Burning Cane | Reverend Tillman | 2019 |
| Rodents of Unusual Size | Narrator | 2019 |
| 27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon | Narrator | 2018 |
| Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan | James Greer | 2018 |
| One Last Thing | Dylan | 2018 |
| Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. | Detective Lee Tucker | 2018 |
| Piercing | The Doctor | 2018 |
| Somebody Feed Phil | Self | 2018 |
| The IMDb Show | Self - Guest | 2017 |
| Harry | Self | 2016 |
| Bad Moms | Principal Daryl Burr / Principal Burr | 2016 |
| Confirmation | Clarence Thomas | 2016 |
| Grease Live! | Coach Calhoun | 2016 |
| Pickle and Peanut | Dr. Craig | 2015 |
| The Runner | Frank Legrand | 2015 |
| The Gift | Detective Mills | 2015 |
| Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band | Andy Kirk | 2015 |
| The Odd Couple | Teddy | 2015 |
| Runaway Hearts | Paul / Paul Levinson | 2015 |
| The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore | Self / Self - Panelist | 2015 |
| Selma | Rev. Hosea Williams | 2014 |
| The Night Shift | Walt | 2014 |
| Elsa & Fred | Armande | 2014 |
| Foreclosure | Virgil | 2014 |
| Chicago P.D. | Ray Price / Alderman Ray Price | 2014 |
| The Michael J. Fox Show | Harris Green | 2013 |
| Four | Joe | 2013 |
| The Arsenio Hall Show | Self - Guest | 2013 |
| The Real | Self - Selma | 2013 |
| Exhale | Self | 2013 |
| Ray Donovan | Ronald Keith | 2013 |
| Möbius | Bob | 2013 |
| Parker | Carlson | 2013 |
| The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 | J. Jenks | 2012 |
| Lay the Favorite | Dave the Rave | 2012 |
| CBS Saturday Morning | Self | 2012 |
| Horrible Bosses | Detective Hagan | 2011 |
| Suits | Robert Zane | 2011 |
| The Mortician | Clinger | 2011 |
| Chico & Rita | (voice) | 2010 |
| Overheard | Self - Interviewee | 2010 |
| The Big Uneasy | Self - Narration | 2010 |
| If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise | Self | 2010 |
| Love Ranch | Naasih Mohammed | 2010 |
| Night Catches Us | David Gordon | 2010 |
| Treme | Antoine Batiste | 2010 |
| Archer | Verl | 2009 |
| Drop Dead Diva | Neal David | 2009 |
| Hawthorne | Dr. Michael Schilling | 2009 |
| Fear Itself | Wiilbur Orwell | 2008 |
| In Plain Sight | Dr. Warren McBride / Warren Morris | 2008 |
| The Wire: The Last Word | Himself | 2007 |
| The Wire Odyssey | Himself / Self | 2007 |
| The Wire: The Chronicles | Detective William 'Bunk' Moreland | 2007 |
| Women's Murder Club | Bill Schroeder | 2007 |
| Pariah | Arthur | 2007 |
| I Think I Love My Wife | Sean | 2007 |
| Life Support | Slick | 2007 |
| Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | Detective | 2007 |
| When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts | Self | 2006 |
| House of Payne | Jeffrey Lucas | 2006 |
| Stay Alive | Detective Thibodeaux | 2006 |
| Close to Home | Sam Carter | 2005 |
| Law & Order: Trial by Jury | Dr. Richard Link | 2005 |
| Numb3rs | William Bradford | 2005 |
| Ray | Wilbur Brassfield | 2004 |
| Land of Plenty | Henry | 2004 |
| A Hole in One | Dan | 2004 |
| Mitchellville | 2004 | |
| The Fighting Temptations | Reverend Lewis | 2003 |
| Real Time with Bill Maher | Self - Guest | 2003 |
| Brown Sugar | Simon | 2002 |
| The Wire | Bunk Moreland / Detective William 'Bunk' Moreland | 2002 |
| The Weber Show | Wendell Simms | 2000 |
| Girlfriends | Anthony Jackson | 2000 |
| God, the Devil and Bob | Mike | 2000 |
| City of Angels | Norbert Grimly | 2000 |
| My Wife and Kids | Dr. Boucher | 2000 |
| Third Watch | Officer Conrad 'Candyman' Jones | 1999 |
| Judging Amy | Harry Benton | 1999 |
| Shadows of the Past | Reverend Tillis | 1999 |
| The 24 Hour Woman | Roy Labelle | 1999 |
| The Expert | Dr. Worseley | 1999 |
| The Brian Benben Show | Kevin La Rue | 1998 |
| Bulworth | Fred | 1998 |
| The Advocate's Devil | Justin | 1997 |
| The Gregory Hines Show | Carl Stevenson | 1997 |
| 413 Hope St. | Taffy | 1997 |
| Sleepers | Little Caesar | 1996 |
| Get on the Bus | Wendell | 1996 |
| Moloney | Calvin Patterson / D.A. Calvin 'Cal' Patterson | 1996 |
| Waiting to Exhale | Michael Davenport / Michael | 1995 |
| Hackers | Agent Dick Gill / S.S. Agent Richard Gill | 1995 |
| Bye Bye Love | Hector | 1995 |
| New York Undercover | Dr. Anthony Fisher | 1994 |
| It Could Happen to You | Bo Williams | 1994 |
| Strapped | District Attorney | 1993 |
| Manhattan Murder Mystery | Policeman | 1993 |
| Malcolm X | Ben Thomas | 1992 |
| I'll Fly Away | Charles | 1991 |
| A Matter of Degrees | Wells Dennard | 1991 |
| A Rage in Harlem | Louis | 1991 |
| The 10 Million Dollar Getaway | Parnell "Stacks" Edwards | 1991 |
| The General Motors Playwrights Theater | Sergeant Kelly | 1991 |
| Law & Order | Roger Porter / Mr. Wade / Jerome Bryant / Chief Ola-Gimju Nwaka | 1990 |
| Capital News | Conrad White | 1990 |
| Family Business | Prosecutor | 1989 |
| Casualties of War | MacIntire | 1989 |
| A Man Called Hawk | Derrick West | 1989 |
| Vietnam War Story | French | 1987 |
| The Money Pit | Paramedic | 1986 |
| The Equalizer | Dr. Wolff | 1985 |
| Entertainment Tonight | Himself | 1981 |
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Burning Cane | 2019 |
