Wendell Pierce (born December 8, 1962) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Detective Bunk Moreland on the HBO drama The Wire.
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Wendell Pierce Biography / Wiki
| Name | Wendell Pierce |
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| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1963-12-08 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 58 |
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Wendell Pierce Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Four | Joe | 2013-09-13 | Adapted from a stage play by Christopher Shinn, the debut feature from Joshua Sanchez is a provocative rumination on race and sexuality set on a swelt… |
| Rodents of Unusual Size | Narrator | 2017-11-15 | Giant swamp rats have invaded coastal Louisiana, and defiant people on the edge of the world are defending their communities, culture, and livelihoods… |
| One Last Thing | Dylan | 2018-06-13 | Dylan Derringer, a lonely dentist in Florida, is confronted by a figure from the past bringing news that sends him on an eventful and ultimately life-… |
| Burning Cane | Reverend Tillman | 2019-04-25 | Set among the cane fields of rural Louisiana, Burning Cane follows a deeply religious mother struggling to reconcile her convictions of faith with the… |
| The Thrill Is On | B.B. King | A drama centered on the friendship between B.B King and young musician Michael Zanetis…. | |
| The Forever Tree | Doctor Willow | 2017-05-02 | In 1920, a young African-American woman sets off to Africa to find a tree that promises eternal life…. |
| Some Old Black Man | Calvin Jones | 2021-01-15 | In the play, Calvin Jones (Pierce), a hip, coolly intellectual African American college professor moves his 82-year-old ailing but doggedly independen… |
| New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music | Narrator | 2010-04-18 | an intimate look at the traditions associated with New Orleans’ music and the preservation of those traditions through the work of local musicians a… |
| Don’t Hang Up | Chris Daniels | 2022-03-20 | Follows Chris Daniels, a man who receives a call that his daughter has been kidnapped. The kidnappers demand that he completes a series of different m… |
| Confirmation | Clarence Thomas | 2016-04-16 | Judge Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the United States’ Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had… |
| King of the South | Upcoming biopic of Master P, the hip-hop mogul, CEO, and founder of No Limit Records…. | ||
| Runaway Hearts | Paul | 2014-01-01 | Two kids on the run from a scary life come across two adults running away from their past…. |
| The Fighting Temptations | Reverend Lewis | 2003-09-17 | Darrin Hill, a slick-talking but down-on- his-luck NYC advertising exec, returns to his hometown in Georgia to claim the inheritance his aunt left him… |
| Night Catches Us | David Gordon | 2010-12-03 | After growing up during the tumultuous 1960s, ex-Black Panther Marcus returns to his home in Philadelphia in 1976 and reconnects with Pat, the widow o… |
| A Matter of Degrees | Wells Dennard | 1990-01-22 | A college student living in a commune decides that he doesn’t want to go on to law school. When a corporation takes over the campus radio station, he … |
| It Could Happen to You | Bo Williams | 1994-07-29 | Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winni… |
| Elsa & Fred | Armande | 2014-03-07 | After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friendship with his eccentric 74-year-old neighbour Elsa… |
| The Advocate’s Devil | Justin | 1997-10-05 | A charismatic basketball star (Holt McCallany) is accused of rape. A lawyer (Ken Olin) in need of a big win is brought in to get the star off. The law… |
| Clemency | Jonathan Williams | 2019-12-27 | Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine… |
| The Gilded Six Bits | Otis D. Slimmons | 2001-02-18 | The lives of a loving husband and wife collide with that of a wealthy hustler…. |
| Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band | Andy Kirk (voice) | 2015-04-01 | Jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams was a genius ahead of her time. From child prodigy to “Boogie-Woogie Queen” to groundbreaking composer to mentoring som… |
| Foreclosure | Virgil | 2014-02-03 | The story of a broken family striving to stay together while a curse and the ghosts of a haunted house try to tear them apart…. |
| Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story | John Saunders | 1996-04-02 | The biography of Jimmy Valvano, American sports reporter and basketball coach, who died of cancer in 1993…. |
| The Mortician | Clinger | 2011-02-15 | Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new emp… |
| The 24 Hour Woman | Roy Labelle | 1999-01-29 | Grace tries to be the perfect mother and TV producer but finds trouble in juggling both…. |
| Life Support | Slick | 2007-03-10 | The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community…. |
| Land of Plenty | Henry | 2004-09-10 | After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War…. |
| A Hole in One | Dan | 2004-05-02 | A gangster makes an employee pose as a doctor to prevent his troubled girlfriend from getting a lobotomy…. |
| The Runner | Frank Legrand | 2015-08-07 | In the aftermath of the BP oil spill, an idealistic but imperfect New Orleans politician (Nicolas Cage) finds his plans of restoration unraveling as h… |
| Piercing | The Doctor | 2018-12-13 | After kissing his wife and baby goodbye for a seemingly normal business trip, Reed checks himself into a hotel room to accomplish something he’s alw… |
| Abilene | Reverend Tillis | 1999-03-13 | When he finds out that his estranged brother is dying, a proud but stubborn old man decides to drive in his lawnmower all the way to the far away hosp… |
| Stay Alive | Detective Thibodeaux | 2006-03-24 | After the mysterious, brutal death of an old friend, a group of teenagers find themselves in possession of “Stay Alive,” an ultra-realistic 3-D videog… |
| Between the World and Me | Self | 2020-11-21 | Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of t… |
| Parker | Carlson | 2013-01-23 | A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely all… |
| The 10 Million Dollar Getaway | Parnell “Stacks” Edwards | 1991-03-06 | Jimmy Burke and his friends steal 10 million from the Lufthansa office in New York. The FBI has no idea who the thieves are until Burke girlfriend giv… |
| Brown Sugar | Simon | 2002-10-05 | Friends since childhood, a magazine editor and a hip-hop record executive stumble into romantic territory…. |
| Get on the Bus | Wendell | 1996-10-16 | Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of character… |
| The Gift | Detective Mills | 2015-07-31 | Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon’s high school acquaintance sends their worl… |
| Hackers | S.S. Agent Richard Gill | 1995-09-14 | Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discove… |
| Waiting to Exhale | Michael Davenport | 1995-12-22 | Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive “good man” to break a string of less-than-stellar l… |
| Lay the Favorite | Dave the Rave | 2012-06-22 | A former stripper’s talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas…. |
| Möbius | Bob | 2013-02-17 | An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank…. |
| Grease Live | Coach Calhoun | 2016-01-31 | After enjoying a holiday romance, high school students Danny and Sandy are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High, where she must con… |
| Bad Moms | Principal Daryl Burr | 2016-07-28 | When three overworked and under-appreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long ove… |
| Bye Bye Love | Hector | 1995-03-16 | With varying degrees of success, recently divorced friends Dave, Vic and Donny are trying to move on with their lives. Vic feels vilified by his ex-wi… |
| Horrible Bosses | Detective Hagan | 2011-07-08 | For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting … |
| I Think I Love My Wife | Sean | 2007-03-07 | Richard Cooper is a married man and father of two who is just plain bored with married life. Not getting any sex from his wife, he resorts to ogling r… |
| Ray | Wilbur Brassfield | 2004-10-29 | Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make h… |
| A Rage in Harlem | Louis | 1991-05-03 | A beautiful black gangster’s moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavo… |
| Unnatural Pursuits | Cabbie | 1992-01-01 | An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play’s make-or-break opening on Broadway…. |
| Family Business | Prosecutor | 1989-12-06 | Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently… |
| Casualties of War | MacIntire | 1989-08-18 | During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager…. |
| Love Ranch | Naasih Mohammed | 2010-06-30 | Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of…. |
| Beyond All Boundaries | Sgt. Thomas McPhatter | 2009-11-09 | A visual, 4-D experience of the battles of World War II featuring stories, archival footage and advanced special effects…. |
| Bulworth | Fred | 1998-05-15 | A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecti… |
| Manhattan Murder Mystery | Policeman | 1993-05-02 | A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor’s wife suddenly drops dead…. |
| The Money Pit | Paramedic | 1986-03-26 | After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a ban… |
| Selma | Rev. Hosea Williams | 2014-12-25 | “Selma,” as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous stateme… |
| The Wire Odyssey | Himself | 2007-12-20 | A retrospective documentary of the first four seasons of the acclaimed series The Wire…. |
| Malcolm X | Ben Thomas | 1992-11-18 | A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the ’50s, he b… |
| The Wire: The Last Word | Himself | 2007-12-27 | A documentary exploring the role of the media in relation to the acclaimed series The Wire…. |
| The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 | J. Jenks | 2012-11-13 | After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in fron… |
| Sleepers | Little Caesar | 1996-10-18 | Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes pl… |
Wendell Pierce Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Burning Cane | Producer | 2019-04-25 | Set among the cane fields of rural Louisiana, Burning Cane follows a deeply religious mother struggling to reconcile her convictions of faith with the… |
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