Wendell Pierce

08/10/2015 – Pierce – CBS, CW and Showtime 2015 Summer TCA Party – Arrivals – Pacific Design Center – West Hollywood, CA, USA – Photo Credit: Izumi Hasegawa / PRPhotos.com

Birth Name: Wendell Edward Pierce

Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.

Date of Birth: December 8, 1963

Ethnicity: African-American

Wendell Pierce is an American actor. His roles include the shows The Wire, House of Payne, Treme, The Michael J. Fox Show, Suits, Ray Donovan, The Odd Couple, Chicago P.D., Unsolved, Jack Ryan, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and Elsbeth, and the films Brown Sugar (2002), The Fighting Temptations, Night Catches Us, Horrible Bosses, Lay the Favorite, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Selma (2014), The Gift (2015), Bad Moms, One Last Thing, Clemency, Thunderbolts*, Highest 2 Lowest, and Superman (2025).

His father was a WWII veteran, who worked as a maintenance engineer. His mother was a teacher.