Cast & creator
Wendell Pierce
Best known for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers
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.
Also known as: 웬델 피어스, Wendell Edward Pierce, וונדל פירס
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television credits
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1985–2026 · acting roles
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Filmography (131)
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014
Law & Order
Roger Porter
1990Law & Order
Civil Rights Attorney Jerome Bryant
1990Law & Order
Ola-Gimju Nwaka
1990Law & Order
Mr. Wade
1990
Chicago P.D.
Ray Price
2014
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
Suits
Robert Zane
2011
Sherri
Self - Guest
2022
Numb3rs
William Bradford
2005
Third Watch
Officer Conrad 'Candyman' Jones
1999
The Tamron Hall Show
Self - Guest
2019
The Wire
Bunk Moreland
2002
Archer
Verl (voice)
2009
Judging Amy
Harry Benton
1999
Elsbeth
C.W. Wagner
2024
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
James Greer
2018
Ray Donovan
Ronald Keith
2013
Girlfriends
Anthony Jackson
2000
Harley Quinn
Lex Luthor (voice)
2019
The Equalizer
Dr. Wolff
1985
Superman
Perry White
2025
Drop Dead Diva
Neal David
2009
In Plain Sight
Dr. Warren McBride / Warren Morris
2008
Thunderbolts*
Congressman Gary
2025
Close to Home
Sam Carter
2005
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
James Greer
2026
New York Undercover
1994
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Detective
2007
My Wife and Kids
Dr. Boucher
2001
The Night Shift
Walt
2014
Treme
Antoine Batiste
2010
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
J. Jenks
2012
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Richard Link
2005
The Odd Couple
Teddy
2015
The Michael J. Fox Show
Harris Green
2013
Highest 2 Lowest
Gabe
2025
Fear Itself
Wiilbur Orwell
2008
Sleepers
Little Caesar
1996
Hackers
S.S. Agent Richard Gill
1995
Horrible Bosses
Detective Hagan
2011
Hawthorne
Dr. Michael Schilling
2009
New York News
1995
Women's Murder Club
2007
The American Revolution
(voice)
2025
The Gift
Detective Mills
2015
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
Self - Guest
2022
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
Detective Lee Tucker
2018
Bad Moms
Principal Burr
2016
The Money Pit
Paramedic
1986
God, the Devil and Bob
Mike (voice)
2000
Capital News
Conrad White
1990The General Motors Playwrights Theater
Sergeant Kelly
1991
The Watch
Death (voice)
2021
Parker
Carlson
2013
Malcolm X
Ben Thomas
1992
Casualties of War
MacIntire
1989
The Weber Show
Wendell Simms
2000
Ray
Wilbur Brassfield
2004
It Could Happen to You
Bo Williams
1994
A Rage in Harlem
Louis
1991The Gregory Hines Show
1997
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Self
2006
Waiting to Exhale
Michael
1995
They Fight
Slim
2026
Lay the Favorite
Dave the Rave
2012
I Think I Love My Wife
Sean
2007Moloney
Calvin Patterson
1996
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Policeman
1993
Stay Alive
Detective Thibodeaux
2006
Becoming Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (voice)
2022
Bulworth
Fred
1998
The Runner
Frank Legrand
2015
Selma
Rev. Hosea Williams
2014
Family Business
Prosecutor
1989
Confirmation
Clarence Thomas
2016
The Brian Benben Show
1998
Land of Plenty
Henry
2004
Get on the Bus
Wendell Perry
1996The People v. Gorilla Grodd
Perry White
Brown Sugar
Simon
2002
Grease Live
Coach Calhoun
2016
The Fighting Temptations
Reverend Lewis
2003
Elsa & Fred
Armande
2014
Great Museums
Möbius
Bob
2013
The Wire Odyssey
Self
2007A Matter of Degrees
Wells Dennard
1991
Burning Cane
Reverend Tillman
2019Burning Cane
Producer
2019Jabari’s People
Love Ranch
Naasih Mohammed
2010
Piercing
The Doctor
2019
Clemency
Jonathan Williams
2019
New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
Narrator (voice)
2010
Bye Bye Love
Hector
1995
Something with Bite
Wilbur Orwell
2009
Beyond All Boundaries
Sgt. Thomas McPhatter
2009
The Wire: The Last Word
Self
2007
Between the World and Me
Self
2020
One Last Thing
Dylan
2018
The 24 Hour Woman
Roy Labelle
1999Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Affair
Detective Marcus Hill
Don't Hang Up
Chris Daniels
2022
The Advocate's Devil
Justin
1997
The Gilded Six Bits
Otis D. Slimmons
2001
The Mortician
Clinger
2011
Night Catches Us
David Gordon
2010
Life Support
Slick
2007
Runaway Hearts
Paul
2015
A Hole in One
Dan
2004The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
Parnell "Stacks" Edwards
1991
Pariah
Arthur
2007
Foreclosure
Virgil
2014
Strapped
District Attorney
1993
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
John Saunders
1996King of the South
Four
Joe
2013
Unnatural Pursuits
Cabbie
1992
2000: Bunk and McNulty
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland
2007
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Andy Kirk (voice)
2015
Rodents of Unusual Size
Narrator (voice)
2017
The Forever Tree
Doctor Willow
2017
Tapping the Wire
Self
2007
A Plea for Modernism
Narrator (voice)
2011
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
Narrator (voice)
2018
The Thrill Is On
B.B. King
Abilene
Reverend Tillis
1999