Wendell Pierce
Biography
Movies 78
Superman
as Perry White
2025
Thunderbolts*
as Congressman Gary
2025
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
as James Greer
2026
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
as J. Jenks
2012
Sleepers
as Little Caesar
1996
Horrible Bosses
as Detective Hagan
2011
Hackers
as S.S. Agent Richard Gill
1995
Highest 2 Lowest
as Gabe
2025
It Could Happen to You
as Bo Williams
1994
Ray
as Wilbur Brassfield
2004
Malcolm X
as Ben Thomas
1992
The Money Pit
as Paramedic
1986
Parker
as Carlson
2013
Casualties of War
as MacIntire
1989
Bad Moms
as Principal Burr
2016
The Gift
as Detective Mills
2015
Selma
as Rev. Hosea Williams
2014
Confirmation
as Clarence Thomas
2016
Waiting to Exhale
as Michael
1995
Manhattan Murder Mystery
as Policeman
1993
Family Business
as Prosecutor
1989
Stay Alive
as Detective Thibodeaux
2006
They Fight
as Slim
2026
I Think I Love My Wife
as Sean
2007
Bulworth
as Fred
1998
Brown Sugar
as Simon
2002
The Fighting Temptations
as Reverend Lewis
2003
Möbius
as Bob
2013
Get on the Bus
as Wendell Perry
1996
Lay the Favorite
as Dave the Rave
2012
Grease Live
as Coach Calhoun
2016
The Runner
as Frank Legrand
2015
Elsa & Fred
as Armande
2014
Clemency
as Jonathan Williams
2019
Love Ranch
as Naasih Mohammed
2010
A Rage in Harlem
as Louis
1991
And Damn He Could Play
as Narrator
2026
Piercing
as The Doctor
2019
Bye Bye Love
as Hector
1995
Between the World and Me
as Self
2020
Land of Plenty
as Henry
2004
The Wire Odyssey
as Self
2007
Strapped
as District Attorney
1993
The Mortician
as Clinger
2011
Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Affair
as Detective Marcus Hill
Beyond All Boundaries
as Sgt. Thomas McPhatter
2009
Life Support
as Slick
2007
The Advocate's Devil
as Justin
1997
Don't Hang Up
as Chris Daniels
2022
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
as John Saunders
1996
A Matter of Degrees
as Wells Dennard
1991
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
as Andy Kirk (voice)
2015
One Last Thing
as Dylan
2018
Foreclosure
as Virgil
2014
The 24 Hour Woman
as Roy Labelle
1999
Four
as Joe
2013
The Gilded Six Bits
as Otis D. Slimmons
2001
Becoming Frederick Douglass
as Frederick Douglass (voice)
2022
Night Catches Us
as David Gordon
2010
A Plea for Modernism
as Narrator (voice)
2011
New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
as Narrator (voice)
2010
Pariah
as Arthur
2007
A Hole in One
as Dan
2004
Tapping the Wire
as Self
2007
Burning Cane
as Reverend Tillman
2019
The Wire: The Last Word
as Self
2007
Something with Bite
as Wilbur Orwell
2009
Rodents of Unusual Size
as Narrator (voice)
2017
Abilene
as Reverend Tillis
1999
The Forever Tree
as Doctor Willow
2017
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
as Parnell "Stacks" Edwards
1991
King of the South
Unnatural Pursuits
as Cabbie
1992
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
as Narrator (voice)
2018
Runaway Hearts
as Paul
2015
2000: Bunk and McNulty
as Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland
2007
Jabari’s People
The Thrill Is On
as B.B. King
TV Shows 53
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
Law & Order
as Roger Porter
1990
Law & Order
as Civil Rights Attorney Jerome Bryant
1990
Law & Order
as Ola-Gimju Nwaka
1990
Law & Order
as Mr. Wade
1990
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015
Chicago P.D.
as Ray Price
2014
Girlfriends
as Anthony Jackson
2000
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
Suits
as Robert Zane
2011
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
The Tamron Hall Show
as Self - Guest
2019
The Wire
as Bunk Moreland
2002
Archer
as Verl (voice)
2009
Third Watch
as Officer Conrad 'Candyman' Jones
1999
Numb3rs
as William Bradford
2005
Elsbeth
as C.W. Wagner
2024
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
as James Greer
2018
Judging Amy
as Harry Benton
1999
Ray Donovan
as Ronald Keith
2013
Harley Quinn
as Lex Luthor (voice)
2019
The Equalizer
as Dr. Wolff
1985
Drop Dead Diva
as Neal David
2009
In Plain Sight
as Dr. Warren McBride / Warren Morris
2008
New York Undercover
1994
The Night Shift
as Walt
2014
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
as Detective
2007
My Wife and Kids
as Dr. Boucher
2001
Close to Home
as Sam Carter
2005
Treme
as Antoine Batiste
2010
The Odd Couple
as Teddy
2015
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
as Richard Link
2005
The Michael J. Fox Show
as Harris Green
2013
Hawthorne
as Dr. Michael Schilling
2009
Fear Itself
as Wiilbur Orwell
2008
New York News
1995
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
as Self - Guest
2022
The American Revolution
as (voice)
2025
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
as Detective Lee Tucker
2018
Women's Murder Club
2007
The Watch
as Death (voice)
2021
The Weber Show
as Wendell Simms
2000
God, the Devil and Bob
as Mike (voice)
2000
The Gregory Hines Show
1997
Capital News
as Conrad White
1990
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
as Self
2006
The General Motors Playwrights Theater
as Sergeant Kelly
1991
The People v. Gorilla Grodd
as Perry White
Moloney
as Calvin Patterson
1996
The Brian Benben Show
1998