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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.