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| x Jimmy McNulty |
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The Law |
Detective James "Jimmy" McNulty is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by British actor Dominic West. McNulty is an Irish American detective in the Baltimore Police Department. While he has proven to be a canny and tenacious...
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| x Kima Greggs |
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The Law |
Detective Shakima "Kima" Greggs is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actress Sonja Sohn. Greggs is a police detective in the Baltimore Police Department who is a dedicated officer and capable detective with some off the job...
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| x Stringer Bell |
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The Street |
Russell "Stringer" Bell is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by British actor Idris Elba. Bell served as drug kingpin Avon Barksdale's second in command, assuming direct control of the Barksdale Organization during Avon's...
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| x Cedric Daniels |
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The Law |
Cedric Daniels is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Lance Reddick. He is a well regarded officer in the department whose focus is on good police work and quality arrests. He tends to have disagreements with some of the...
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| x Avon Barksdale |
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The Street |
Avon Randolph Barksdale is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire portrayed by actor Wood Harris. Avon is the top drug dealer of Baltimore's west side, running the Barksdale Organization. He runs the West Baltimore drug trade with total...
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| x Omar Little |
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The Street |
Omar Devone Little is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, portrayed by Michael K. Williams. Omar is a renowned stick-up man who lives by a strict code and never deviates from his rules, foremost of which is that he never robs or menaces...
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| x Ellis Carver |
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The Law |
Ellis Carver is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Seth Gilliam. Carver is an African American lieutenant in command of the Major Crimes Unit and formerly in command of the Baltimore Police Department's Western...
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| x Lester Freamon |
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The Law |
Lester Freamon is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Clarke Peters. Freamon is a detective in the Baltimore Police Department's Major Crimes Unit. He is a slow and methodical detective who quietly makes major...
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| x Thomas "Herc" Hauk |
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The Law |
Thomas "Herc" Hauk is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Domenick Lombardozzi. Herc is a private investigator working for attorney Maurice Levy. He was formerly a sergeant in the Baltimore Police Department's Major Case...
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| x Bodie Broadus |
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The Street |
Preston "Bodie" Broadus is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor J. D. Williams. Bodie is initially a Barksdale organization drug dealer and slowly rises through the ranks.
Preston "Bodie" Broadus was raised by his...
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| x Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski |
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The Law |
Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Jim True-Frost.
Prez has a well-known history of incompetence in the department. The incident most often cited is that he once shot up his own squad car...
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| x Marlo Stanfield |
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The Street |
Marlo "Black" Stanfield is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Jamie Hector. Marlo is a young, ruthless and ambitious player in the Baltimore drug trade who gains control of West Baltimore and is the head of his own drug...
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| x Ervin Burrell |
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The Law |
Ervin Burrell is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Frankie Faison. Burrell was an officer in the Baltimore Police Department who ascended from Deputy Commissioner of Operations to Commissioner over the course of the...
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| x William Rawls |
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The Law |
William A. Rawls is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor John Doman. Over the course of the series he ascends to the rank of Acting Commissioner. Only brief glimpses are seen of his personal life and it is implied that he...
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| x Howard "Bunny" Colvin |
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The Law |
Howard "Bunny" Colvin is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Robert Wisdom.
Colvin joined the Baltimore Police Department in 1973 (according to Season 3, he had 30 years on) patrolling his home neighborhood in the...
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| x Leander Sydnor |
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The Law |
Leander Sydnor is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Corey Parker Robinson. Sydnor is a young, married Baltimore Police detective and was a member of the Barksdale detail and later worked in the Major Crimes Unit....
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| x Bunk Moreland |
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The Law |
William "Bunk" Moreland is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Wendell Pierce. Bunk's character is based on a retired Baltimore City Police Detective named Rick Requer and nicknamed "the Bunk", an officer who joined the...
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| x D'Angelo Barksdale |
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The Street |
D'Angelo "Dee" Barksdale is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Larry Gilliard Jr. D'Angelo is the nephew of Avon Barksdale and a lieutenant in his drug dealing organization which controls most of the trade in West...
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| x Tommy Carcetti |
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The Hall |
Thomas J. "Tommy" Carcetti is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Aidan Gillen. Carcetti is an ambitious Baltimore politician who hopes to rise from a seat on the city council to the position of mayor. While many think...
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| x Clarence Royce |
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The Hall |
Clarence V. Royce is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Glynn Turman
Mayor of Baltimore Clarence V. Royce is a deft political figure and is fixated on remaining in power. Royce is the incumbent Mayor of Baltimore who was...
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| x Norman Wilson |
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The Hall |
Norman Wilson is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Reg E. Cathey. Wilson is a professional political operative and works closely with ambitious politician Tommy Carcetti. The character first appeared in the show's...
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| x Bubbles |
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The Street |
Reginald "Bubbles" Cousins is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Andre Royo. Bubbles is a recovering heroin addict with a vast knowledge of surviving on Baltimore's streets. His real name is not revealed until a fourth...
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| x Ziggy Sobotka |
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The Port |
Chester Karol "Ziggy" Sobotka is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor James Ransone. Though his father Frank Sobotka was a well-respected Stevedore union leader, Ziggy's often reckless and juvenile behavior gained him...
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| x Frank Sobotka |
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The Port |
Frank Sobotka is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Chris Bauer.
Frank is a Polish-American secretary treasurer for the International Brotherhood of Stevedores at the Baltimore docks. As the pater familias for the docks...
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| x Nick Sobotka |
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The Port |
Nick Sobotka (born April 7, 1976) is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Pablo Schreiber.
Nick is Frank Sobotka's nephew a dock worker in his uncle's union. He often had to keep his cousin Ziggy out of trouble. Nick was...
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| x Spiros Vondas |
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The Port |
Spiros "Vondas" Vondopoulos (Greek: Σπύρος Βονδοπουλος; born June 10, 1960) is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Paul Ben-Victor.
Vondas is The Greek's second-in-command and acted as a buffer between the Greek and his...
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| x The Greek |
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The Port |
The Greek is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Bill Raymond. The Greek is the head of an international criminal organization involved in narcotics and human trafficking. Despite his moniker, he is not of Greek origins....
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| x Wee-Bey Brice |
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The Street |
Roland "Wee-Bey" Brice is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Hassan Johnson. Wee-Bey was the Barksdale Organization's most trusted soldier before being sentenced to life imprisonment for multiple homicides. He has the...
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| x Proposition Joe |
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The Street |
Joseph "Proposition Joe" Stewart, often referred to as Prop Joe, is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Robert F. Chew. Joe is an Eastside drug kingpin who preferred a peaceful solution to business disputes when possible....
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| x Dennis "Cutty" Wise |
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The Street |
Dennis "Cutty" Wise is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Chad Coleman. Wise is a reformed criminal who is striving to create a boxing gym for neighborhood children. There was a real contract killer named Dennis Wise,...
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| x Beadie Russell |
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The Law |
Beatrice "Beadie" Russell is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actress Amy Ryan. She was featured prominently in the second season, after she discovered thirteen corpses in a container on the Baltimore docks.
Russell started...
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| x Michael Lee |
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The School |
Michael Lee is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Tristan Wilds. He is a middle school pupil and is friends with Namond Brice, Randy Wagstaff and Duquan "Dukie" Weems. He is more soft-spoken than his friends, and appears to...
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| x Duquan "Dukie" Weems |
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The School |
Duquan "Dukie" Weems is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Jermaine Crawford. Dukie is a pupil at the Edward Tilghman Middle School. His home life is anarchic because all the adults in his home are alcoholics or drug addicts....
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| x Clay Davis |
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The Hall |
Senator R. Clayton "Clay" Davis is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Isiah Whitlock, Jr. Davis is a corrupt Maryland State Senator with a reputation for pocketing bribes. Davis however remains protected throughout the...
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| x Maurice Levy |
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The Street |
Maurice "Maury" Levy is a fictional lawyer on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Michael Kostroff. He is a skilled defense attorney and was kept on retainer by the drug-trafficking Barksdale crew, who represented the organization's members at trials...
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| x Rhonda Pearlman |
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The Law |
Rhonda Pearlman is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actress Deirdre Lovejoy. Pearlman has been the legal system liaison for all of Lieutenant Cedric Daniels' investigations on the show. She has begun a personal relationship...
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| x Augustus Haynes |
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The Paper |
Augustus "Gus" Haynes is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Clark Johnson, who is also a director for the series. Haynes is the dedicated and principled editor for the Baltimore Sun city desk. Haynes is a partial...
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| x Scott Templeton |
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The Paper |
M. Scott Templeton is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Thomas McCarthy. The actor joined the starring cast as the series' fifth season began.
Templeton is a young reporter who allows his extreme ambition to lead him...
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| x Alma Gutierrez |
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The Paper |
Alma M. Gutierrez is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actress Michelle Paress. Gutierrez is a dedicated and idealistic young reporter on the city desk of The Baltimore Sun.
Gutierrez joins the staff of The Baltimore Sun...
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| x Chris Partlow |
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The Street |
Chris Partlow is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Gbenga Akinnagbe. Partlow is Marlo Stanfield's best friend and second-in-command in his drug dealing operation. According to a commentary with David Simon, Partlow was...
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| x Felicia "Snoop" Pearson |
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The Street |
Felicia "Snoop" Pearson is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Wire played by an actress of the same name. She is a young female soldier in Marlo Stanfield's drug dealing organization, the earliest protege of Chris Partlow. As one of the...
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| x Judge Phelan |
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The Law | |
| x Michael Steintorf |
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The Hall | |
| x Brother Mouzone |
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The Street | |
| x Thomas "Horseface" Pakusa |
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The Port | |
| x Sergei "Serge" Malatov |
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The Port | |
| x Nerese Campbell |
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The Hall |
Nerese Campbell is a fictional democratic politician from Baltimore on the HBO series, The Wire. She first appeared in season four as a supporter of Mayor Royce's campaign for mayor. Her position within the city government was Council President.
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| x Odell Watkins |
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The Hall |
State Delegate Odell Watkins is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Frederick Strother.
Watkins is a longtime major Baltimore political figure and a wheelchair user. Watkins is a member of the influential State...
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| x Jennifer Carcetti |
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| x Marla Daniels |
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The Hall | |
| x Namond Brice |
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The School |
Namond Brice is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Julito McCullum. Namond is the son of Wee-Bey Brice and De'Londa Brice and was a middle school pupil during season 4. He is friends with Michael Lee and Randy Wagstaff and...
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| x Randy Wagstaff |
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The School |
Randy Wagstaff is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Maestro Harrell. Randy is an enterprising student who is dependent on social services. During season 4, he was an 8th grade pupil at Edward Tilghman Middle School and is...
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| x David Parenti |
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The School | |
| x Claudell Withers |
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The School | |
| x Marcia Donnelly |
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The School | |
| x Bill Zorzi |
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The Paper | |
| x Mike Fletcher |
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The Paper | |
| x James C. Whiting III |
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The Paper | |
| x Jay Spry |
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The Paper | |
| x Thomas Klebanow |
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