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Stringer Bell

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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Avon Barksdale

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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Omar Little

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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Bodie Broadus

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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Marlo Stanfield

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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D'Angelo Barksdale

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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Bubbles

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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Wee-Bey Brice

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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Proposition Joe

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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Dennis "Cutty" Wise

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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Michael Lee

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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Maurice Levy

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, representing the organization's members at trials and...

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Chris Partlow

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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Felicia "Snoop" Pearson

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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