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| x Aidan Gillen |
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Tommy Carcetti |
Aidan Gillen (born Aidan Murphy; 24 April 1968) is an Irish stage and screen actor, best known in the UK for his role as Stuart Jones in the ground-breaking Channel 4 television series Queer as Folk. He is perhaps best known to US audiences for his...
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| x Amy Ryan |
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Beadie Russell |
Amy Ryan (born November 30, 1969) is an American actress. Ryan is her mother's maiden name.
Born in Queens, New York City, Ryan and her sister delivered the Daily News by bike growing up in the 1970s. At a young age, she attended the Stagedoor Manor...
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| x Andre Royo |
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Bubbles |
Andre Royo (born July 17, 1968) is an American actor.
Royo was born in the Bronx, New York of African American and Cuban heritage. Allegedly, Royo has often been told by casting directors that he is "not black enough" or "not Latino enough" for...
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| x Bill Raymond |
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The Greek |
Bill Raymond is an actor who has appeared in film, television and theatre since the 1960's.
He featured in the second and fifth seasons of the HBO drama The Wire as "The Greek", the mysterious head of an international criminal organization. Other TV...
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| x Brandon Young |
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Mike Fletcher | |
| x Bruce Kirkpatrick |
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Roger Twigg | |
| x Chad Coleman |
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Dennis "Cutty" Wise |
Chad Coleman is an American film and television actor. He had a starring role on the HBO series The Wire as reformed criminal Dennis "Cutty" Wise. In 2002, Coleman starred as O.J. Simpson in TNT's television movie Monday Night Mayhem. Chad also had...
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| x Charley Scalies |
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Thomas "Horseface" Pakusa |
Charlie Scalies is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Thomas "Horseface" Pakusa, one of the stevedores and union members on the second season of HBO's The Wire. He has also appeared in TV shows Homicide: Life on the Street, Law &...
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| x Chris Bauer |
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Frank Sobotka |
Mark Christopher Bauer (born October 28, 1966) is an American film and television actor.
Bauer was born in Los Angeles, California and graduated from Miramonte High School in Orinda, California, in 1984, playing on the Championship football team of...
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| Detective Andy Bellefleur | |||
| x Clark Johnson |
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Meldrick Lewis |
Clark Johnson (born September 10, 1954), sometimes credited as "Clark 'Slappy' Jackson", "Clarque Johnson", and "J. Clark Johnson", is an American actor and director who has worked in both television and film.
Johnson was born in Philadelphia,...
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| Augustus Haynes | |||
| x Clarke Peters |
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Lester Freamon |
Clarke Peters (born 7 April 1952) is an American actor, singer, writer and director best known for his role as Detective Lester Freamon on the HBO drama The Wire.
Peters was born Peter Clarke in New York City and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey...
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| x Corey Parker Robinson |
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Leander Sydnor |
Corey Parker Robinson (born February 9, 1975) is an American actor. He may be best known for appearing on the HBO program The Wire as Detective Leander Sydnor. He also appeared in Wire creator David Simon's earlier The Corner as R.C., a young drug...
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| x Dan Deluca |
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David Parenti | |
| x David Costabile |
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Thomas Klebanow | |
| Doug | |||
| x Deirdre Lovejoy |
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Rhonda Pearlman |
Deirdre Lovejoy (born 30 June 1962) is an American actress. She is most notable for appearance on the HBO program The Wire (as Rhonda Pearlman). She graduated from the University of Evansville with an undergraduate degree in theatre.
She is also...
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| x Domenick Lombardozzi |
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Thomas "Herc" Hauk |
Domenico "Domenick" Lombardozzi (born March 25, 1976) is an American actor best known for his role as Thomas "Herc" Hauk on The Wire. Lombardozzi was inspired to act by the film State of Grace.
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| x Dominic West |
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Jimmy McNulty |
Dominic West (born 15 October 1969 in Sheffield, Yorkshire) is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Jimmy McNulty in the HBO drama series The Wire.
West was born into an Irish Catholic family in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England to...
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| x Donald Neal |
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Jay Spry | |
| x Felicia Pearson |
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Felicia "Snoop" Pearson |
Felicia "Snoop" Pearson (born May 18, 1980) is an African-American actress, author, and rapper. She is best known for playing an eponymous character on The Wire. She has written a memoir, Grace After Midnight.
Pearson was born to two incarcerated...
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| x Frankie Faison |
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Ervin Burrell |
Frankie Russel Faison (born June 10, 1949), often credited as Frankie R. Faison, is an American actor.
Faison was born in Newport News, Virginia, the son of Carmena (née Gantt) and Edgar Faison. He studied drama at Illinois Wesleyan University in...
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| x Gbenga Akinnagbe |
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Chris Partlow |
Gbenga Akinnagbe (born December 12, 1978) is a Nigerian-American actor, best known for his role as Chris Partlow on the HBO original series The Wire.
Born in Washington, DC to Nigerian parents and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, Akinnagbe was in...
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| x Glynn Turman |
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Clarence Royce |
Glynn Russell Turman (born January 31, 1947) is an American stage, television, and film actor as well as a writer, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as high school student Leroy "Preach" Jackson in the 1975 coming-of-age...
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| x Hassan Johnson |
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Wee-Bey Brice |
Hassan Johnson is an American actor from Staten Island, NY, born November 19, 1976. His most noted performance was appearing on the HBO program The Wire as Wee-Bey Brice. His first acting role was in the 1995 Spike Lee film Clockers. He also had a...
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| x Idris Elba |
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Stringer Bell |
Idrissa Akuna "Idris" Elba (born 6 September 1972) is a British television, theatre, and film actor who has starred in both British and American productions. Idris Elba grew up in Hackney, East London. One of his first acting roles was in the soap...
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| x Isiah Whitlock, Jr. |
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Clay Davis |
Isiah Whitlock Jr. (born September 13, 1954) is an American actor.
He is most famous for his role on the HBO show, The Wire as corrupt state senator Clay Davis. He also is notable for appearing in Spike Lee films She Hate Me and 25th Hour as Agent...
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| x J. D. Williams |
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Bodie Broadus |
Darnell "J.D." Williams (born May 22, 1978 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American actor with starring roles in the HBO television programs Oz and The Wire. Williams has appeared as Preston "Bodie" Broadus in the first four seasons of The Wire. He has...
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| x James Ransone |
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Ziggy Sobotka |
James Ransone (born 2 June 1979) is an American actor. He is most famous for his roles as Ziggy Sobotka in the second season of HBO's The Wire, and Corporal Josh Ray Person in the Iraq war-based mini-series Generation Kill.
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| x Jamie Hector |
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Marlo Stanfield |
Jamie Hector (born October 7, 1975) is an American actor who is known for his portrayal of Marlo Stanfield on the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire.
Hector began acting immediately after high school when he auditioned for a community theater...
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| x Jermaine Crawford |
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Duquan "Dukie" Weems |
Jermaine Crawford (born in 1992) is an African-American actor best known for appearing on the HBO original series The Wire as Duquan "Dukie" Weems. He is a cousin to fellow Wire castmember and actor Tristan Wilds.
Crawford started performing at the...
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| x Jim True-Frost |
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Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski |
Jim True-Frost, born Jim True, (born July 31, 1966 in Greenwich, Connecticut) is an American stage, television and screen actor. He is most notable for his portrayal of Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski for five seasons on the HBO program The Wire. He also...
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| x John Doman |
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William Rawls |
John Doman (born January 9, 1945) is an American actor. Doman was born in Philadelphia, PA and is an alumnus of Northeast Catholic High School. He is a 1962 graduate and a member of the School's Hall of Fame. He is a 1966 graduate of the University...
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| x Kara Quick |
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Rebecca Corbett | |
| x Lance Reddick |
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Cedric Daniels |
Lance Reddick is an American theater, film and TV actor and musician born in Baltimore, Maryland. He starred in The Wire as Cedric Daniels, appeared in Oz as Detective Johnny Basil and appeared in the fourth and fifth seasons of Lost. He now has a...
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| Phillip Broyles | |||
| x Larry Gilliard Jr. |
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D'Angelo Barksdale |
Lawrence "Larry" Gilliard, Jr. (born September 22, 1971) is an American character actor who has appeared in films, television series and theatre. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of D'Angelo Barksdale on the HBO drama series The Wire, a...
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| x Maria Broom |
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Marla Daniels | |
| x Marlyne Afflack |
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Nerese Campbell |
Marlyne Nayokah Afflack (born September 13, 1978 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American Actress best known her role as Nerese Campbell on The Wire. She also played an attorney in the FX drama Damages and Thomasina, the efficient palace secretary and...
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| x Megan Anderson |
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Jennifer Carcetti | |
| x Michael B. Jordan |
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Wallace |
Michael B. Jordan (born February 9, 1987) is an American actor.
He joined the cast of soap opera All My Children in March 2003 playing the role of Reggie Porter (later Reggie Montgomery), a troubled teenager, until June 2006. Jordan was released...
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| x Michael K. Williams |
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Omar Little |
Michael Kenneth Williams (born November 22, 1966) is an American actor. He has received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Omar Little on The Wire.
Williams was born November 22, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. After getting in some trouble as a...
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| x Michael Kostroff |
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Maurice Levy |
Michael Kostroff (born May 22, 1961) is an American actor. He appeared on the HBO program The Wire as defense attorney Maurice Levy. Kostroff starred in the fifth season of the series and appeared in all four earlier seasons as a guest star.
In...
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| x Michael Potts |
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Brother Mouzone | |
| x Michelle Paress |
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Alma Gutierrez |
Michelle Paress is an American actress. She stars in the HBO program The Wire as reporter Alma Gutierrez. Paress joined the cast in the show's fifth season. She is married to a former star of the show, actor Larry Gilliard Jr.
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| x Neal Huff |
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Michael Steintorf |
Neal Huff is an American actor. He received his MFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He has appeared on Broadway in revivals of The Tempest (1995) and The Lion in Winter (1999) and the Tony Award-winning Take Me Out (2003)....
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| x Pablo Schreiber |
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Nick Sobotka |
Pablo Tell Schreiber (born April 26, 1978) is an American actor known for his dramatic stage work and for his portrayal of the Polish-American character Nick Sobotka on HBO's Baltimore drugs crime drama The Wire. He appeared in the movies The...
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| x Paul Ben-Victor |
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Spiros Vondas |
Paul Ben-Victor (born July 24, 1965) is an American actor.
Ben-Victor was born Paul Friedman in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Leah Kornfeld, a playwright, and Victor Friedman. Ben-Victor debuted on the small screen in 1987 in the made-for-TV movie...
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| x Peter Gerety |
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Judge Phelan |
Peter Gerety (born May 17, 1940) is an American actor.
Gerety began acting while a student at Boston University, participating in productions at the Charles Playhouse. In 1965, he joined the Trinity Square Repertory Company, a theater troupe in...
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| x Reg E. Cathey |
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Norman Wilson |
Reginald "Reg" E. Cathey (born August 18, 1958) is an African-German stage, film and television actor.
Cathey is a native of Huntsville, Alabama and a graduate of J.O. Johnson High School. He spent his childhood in Germany.
One of his earliest roles...
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| x Richard Hidlebird |
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Claudell Withers | |
| x Robert F. Chew |
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Proposition Joe |
Robert F. Chew is an American actor from Baltimore, Maryland. He starred in the HBO television drama series The Wire as manipulative drug kingpin Proposition Joe on all five seasons of the show. The role has drawn acclaim for Chew both for his...
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| x Robert Poletick |
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Steven Luxenberg | |
| x Robert Wisdom |
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Lechero |
Robert Wisdom (born September 14, 1953) is an American actor. He is a graduate of Columbia University.
Wisdom was born in Washington, D.C. to Jamaican parents. He starred in the last three seasons of HBO program The Wire as Howard "Bunny" Colvin. He...
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| Howard "Bunny" Colvin | |||
| x Sam Freed |
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James C. Whiting III | |
| x Seth Gilliam |
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Ellis Carver |
Seth Gilliam (November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his television roles as corrections officer-turned-prisoner Clayton Hughes on the HBO drama Oz, and as Baltimore police officer Ellis Carver on the HBO drama The Wire...
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| x Sonja Sohn |
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Kima Greggs |
Sonja Sohn is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Detective Kima Greggs on the hit HBO drama The Wire. Sohn is of East African and Korean heritage. Before she was an actress, Sohn was a slam poet, having written lyrics and co...
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| x Thomas McCarthy |
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Thomas Joseph McCarthy (born January 30, 1966) is an American actor, writer, and director who has appeared in several movies, including Meet the Parents and Good Night, and Good Luck, and television shows such as The Wire, Boston Public, Law & Order...
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| Scott Templeton | |||
| Tim Phelps | |||
| x Todd Scofield |
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Jeff Price | |
| x Tootsie Duvall |
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Marcia Donnelly | |
| x Tristan Wilds |
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Michael Lee |
Tristan Paul Mack Wilds (born July 15, 1989) is an American actor known for his portrayal of Michael Lee on the HBO original series The Wire as well as playing Dixon Wilson in the Beverly Hills, 90210 spin off 90210.
Wilds attended Michael J....
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| x Wendell Pierce |
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Bunk Moreland |
Wendell Pierce (born December 8, 1962) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Detective Bunk Moreland on HBO drama The Wire.
Pierce was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and attended Benjamin Franklin High School. He starred in all five...
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| x William F. Zorzi |
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Bill Zorzi |
William F. Zorzi is a journalist and screenwriter. He worked at The Baltimore Sun for almost twenty years and covered politics for the majority of his career. He has also written for the HBO TV series The Wire.
He worked at The Baltimore Sun for...
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