Artist
Wendell Pierce
Via New Orleans, LA, USA
Wendell Pierce is an actor and Tony Award–winning producer best known for his roles as Reverend Hosea Williams in Selma, Detective William "Bunk" Moreland in The Wire and trombonist Antoine Batiste in Treme, to name a few. A New Orleans native, he appeared as himself in Spike Lee's documentary When The Levees Broke, telling his family's story of loss after Hurricane Katrina. Pierce's extensive body of work includes Ray (based on the life of Ray Charles), Malcolm X, Waiting to Exhale, Sleepers, Hackers and Parker, among many others. He plays a feature role in the new CBS sitcom The Odd Couple. Pierce is a three-time NAACP Image Award Nominee for Best Actor in a television drama for his work on The Wire. His memoir The Wind and The Reeds, about New Orleans' post-Katrina recovery and the transformative potential of art, will be published in fall 2015.
