Wendell pierce is an American actor born on December 8, 1962, in New Orleans, Louisiana. His studies were carried out at the Benjamin Franklin High School.
He began his acting career participating in different commercials until in 1986 he had a small role in the film “This house is a ruin“.
His other credits in this same area include “Iron hearts“, with Michael J. Fox Y Sean Penn, the comedy “A Matter of Degrees“; the thriller”Mysterious murder in Manhattan“; directed by Woody Allen; “Hackers: hackers“;”24 Hour Woman“; in which he made Roy Labelle, “Brown sugar“, starring Taye diggs; He also played one of the musicians of the band of Ray Charles, in the movie titled “Ray“, and joined the cast of”I Think I Love My Wife” and of “Night Catches Us“.
Pierce also ventured into the field of television movies, in films such as the thriller “The flight of the 10 million dollars“,”Caught up in the violence“,”Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story“, directed by Marcus cole, “In search of justice“,”Mitchellville“, made by John D. Harkrider Y Herb Lovelle, and made his contributions in “Life Support“, for which he won the Image Award in the category “Outstanding Actor in Television Films“.
In its more than 20-year career, it featured in the credits of a large number of series, among which can be found: “Capital News“, What Conrad White in 1990, “New York Undercover“, “The Gregory Hines Show“, in which he had the role of Carl stevenson between 1997 and 1998, “The Expert“,”Third Watch“, where he played the role of Officer Conrad ‘Candyman’ Jones throughout 5 episodes, the drama “Judging Amy“,”Law & Order” Y “The Wire“, where he had the role of Detective William ‘Bunk’ Moreland between 2002 and 2008.
In addition, he had small participations in series such as: “Women’s Murder Club“,”House of Payne“,”Numb3rs” Y “Drop Dead Diva“, starring Brooke elliott, Y Margaret Cho.
His latest work for television is in one of the leading roles in the new series of HBO, “Treme“, released on April 11, 2010.