Wendell Pierce
Acting
1963-12-08 · 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.
Filmography
TheatersThey Fight
2026 · Movie
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
2026 · Movie
The American Revolution
2025 · Series
Highest 2 Lowest
2025 · Movie
Superman
2025 · Movie
Thunderbolts*
2025 · Movie
Elsbeth
2024 · Series
Becoming Frederick Douglass
2022 · Movie
Sherri
2022 · Series
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
2022 · Series
Don't Hang Up
2022 · Movie
The Watch
2021 · Series
Between the World and Me
2020 · Movie
Clemency
2019 · Movie
Harley Quinn
2019 · Series
Tamron Hall
2019 · Series
Burning Cane
2019 · Movie
Piercing
2019 · Movie
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
2018 · Movie
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
2018 · Series
One Last Thing
2018 · Movie
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
2018 · Series
Rodents of Unusual Size
2017 · Movie
The Forever Tree
2017 · Movie
Bad Moms
2016 · Movie
Confirmation
2016 · Movie
Grease Live
2016 · Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
The Runner
2015 · Movie
The Gift
2015 · Movie
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015 · Movie
The Odd Couple
2015 · Series
Runaway Hearts
2015 · Movie
Selma
2014 · Movie
The Night Shift
2014 · Series
Elsa & Fred
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
Foreclosure
2014 · Movie
Chicago P.D.
2014 · Series
The Michael J. Fox Show
2013 · Series
Four
2013 · Movie
Ray Donovan
2013 · Series
Möbius
2013 · Movie
Parker
2013 · Movie
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
2012 · Movie
Lay the Favorite
2012 · Movie
Horrible Bosses
2011 · Movie
Suits
2011 · Series
The Mortician
2011 · Movie
A Plea for Modernism
2011 · Movie
Night Catches Us
2010 · Movie
Love Ranch
2010 · Movie
New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
2010 · Movie
Treme
2010 · Series
Beyond All Boundaries
2009 · Movie
Archer
2009 · Series
Drop Dead Diva
2009 · Series
Hawthorne
2009 · Series
Something with Bite
2009 · Movie
Fear Itself
2008 · Series
In Plain Sight
2008 · Series
The Wire: The Last Word
2007 · Movie
The Wire Odyssey
2007 · Movie
2000: Bunk and McNulty
2007 · Movie
Women's Murder Club
2007 · Series
Tapping the Wire
2007 · Movie
Pariah
2007 · Movie
Life Support
2007 · Movie
I Think I Love My Wife
2007 · Movie
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
2007 · Series
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006 · Series
Stay Alive
2006 · Movie
Close to Home
2005 · Series
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005 · Series
Numb3rs
2005 · Series
Ray
2004 · Movie
Land of Plenty
2004 · Movie
A Hole in One
2004 · Movie
The Fighting Temptations
2003 · Movie
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Series
Brown Sugar
2002 · Movie
The Wire
2002 · Series
My Wife and Kids
2001 · Series
The Gilded Six Bits
2001 · Movie
The Weber Show
2000 · Series
Girlfriends
2000 · Series
God, the Devil and Bob
2000 · Series
Third Watch
1999 · Series
Judging Amy
1999 · Series
Abilene
1999 · Movie
The 24 Hour Woman
1999 · Movie
The Brian Benben Show
1998 · Series
Bulworth
1998 · Movie
The Advocate's Devil
1997 · Movie
The Gregory Hines Show
1997 · Series
Sleepers
1996 · Movie
Get on the Bus
1996 · Movie
Moloney
1996 · Series
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
1996 · Movie
Waiting to Exhale
1995 · Movie
New York News
1995 · Series
Hackers
1995 · Movie
Bye Bye Love
1995 · Movie
New York Undercover
1994 · Series
It Could Happen to You
1994 · Movie
Strapped
1993 · Movie
Manhattan Murder Mystery
1993 · Movie
Malcolm X
1992 · Movie
Unnatural Pursuits
1992 · Movie
A Matter of Degrees
1991 · Movie
A Rage in Harlem
1991 · Movie
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
1991 · Movie
The General Motors Playwrights Theater
1991 · Series
Law & Order
1990 · Series
Capital News
1990 · Series
Family Business
1989 · Movie
Casualties of War
1989 · Movie
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
The Money Pit
1986 · Movie
The Equalizer
1985 · Series
The People v. Gorilla Grodd
Series
Great Museums
Series
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Affair
Movie
King of the South
Movie
The Thrill Is On
Movie