Wendell Pierce net worth: Wendell Pierce is an American celebrity who has a net worth of $2 million. Pierce is most widely recognized for his work on HBO dramas, including portraying Detective Bunk Moreland in “The Wire” and Antoine Batiste in “Treme.” Pierce was born in New Orleans on December 8, 1966. Pierce attended Benjamin Franklin High School before graduating in the New Orleans Centre for Creative Arts. Pierce has appeared in over 30 films and 50 television shows. Some of Pierce’s credits include “Malcolm X,” “Waiting to Exhale,” “Ray” and “Horrible Bosses.” A couple of his TV appearances include “Law & Order,” “Judging Amy,” “House of Pain,” “Numb3rs” and “Suits.” Pierce has additionally appeared in several stage performances, including Broadway productions “Serious Money,” “The Boys of Winter” and “The Piano Lesson.” As of 2009, Pierce has additionally hosted a nationally syndicated, Peabody Award-winning radio program called “Jazz at Lincoln Center.” When not working in film and TV, Pierce has been involved with numerous other ventures, like the Sterling Farms chain of grocery stores, and was one of the top fundraisers for Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign.
Quick Facts
Birth date:
December 8, 1963
Birth place:
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Height:
5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Profession:
Actor
Education:
Juilliard School, Benjamin Franklin High School
Nationality:
American
Parents:
Amos Pierce, Althea Pierce
Awards:
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special, Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance
Nominations:
Tony Award for Best Play
Movies:
Confirmation, Selma, Waiting to Exhale, The Fighting Temptations, Parker, The Runner, Ray, Stay Alive, It Could Happen to You, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Hackers, A Rage in Harlem, Get on the Bus, I Think I Love My Wife, Elsa & Fred, Bulworth, Sleepers, The Gift, The 24 Hour Woman, Casualties of War, Horrible Bosses, Malcolm X, Night Catches Us, Land of Plenty, Lay the Favorite, Bye Bye Love, A Matter of Degrees, Brown Sugar, Grease: Live, Four, Love Ranch, Family Business, The Ten Million Dollar Getaway, The Gilded Six Bits, Bad Moms, Möbius, A Hole in One, Life Support, Bolden!, Mitchellville, Renaissance Village
TV shows:
The Michael J. Fox Show, Treme, The Wire, Cursed, The Brian Benben Show, The Gregory Hines Show, Moloney, Capital News, The Odd Couple, Suits
After losing his childhood home to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Wendell suffered yet another devastating loss in August 2016 when another home was taken from him due to widespread flooding in Louisana. The recent flooding is almost 11 years to the day when Katrina made landfall.
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Wendell Pierce plays trombone player Antoine Batiste on the TV series Treme, but he is not really a trombonist. When he got the role he started taking lessons so that his handling of the instrument would look credible on-screen. An off-screen professional trombone player provides the actual music for Batiste's scenes of playing the instrument. Pierce told NPR that prior to accepting the role on Treme, his horn playing had previously been limited to about two weeks of trumpet lessons in the sixth grade.
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According to the Marketplace radio program, in December, 2011, he opened Sterling Express, the first in a chain of grocery stores selling fresh produce and other staples in his hometown of New Orleans.
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Both the part of Antoine Batiste on Treme and the part of Owen Thoreau, Jr., on Men of a Certain Age (2009) were created with him in mind. He was offered both parts around the same time but had to choose Treme since it was about New Orleans, his hometown.
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Attended Benjamin Franklin High School and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA).
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Grew up in the Pontchartrain Park section of New Orleans.
Quotes
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[on the lack of racial diversity in studio films] It has to be called out. When the studios say, "I don't where to find black filmmakers", there are film festivals for people of color every year. Hundreds of black films come out and don't get any distribution from studios. They can't claim ignorance.
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There was a little disappointment last year because people here in New Orleans wanted the New Orleans version of The Wire (2002). But what's so different about _Treme_ is that it's trying really hard to capture culture, and show the impact culture has on people's lives. Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture. And we've lost that understanding in America. We don't understand the role of culture. The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be. It's like the way thoughts are to the individual, but on a bigger scale. We only see the residual of it, the entertainment. "All right, perform, and entertain me." Entertainment is just a residual of culture. It is not the sole purpose of it. The sole purpose is that we kind of reflect on what the hell we're doing here, and how this thing of ours is going.
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The great thing about shooting [The Wire (2002)] in Baltimore was we were each other's best company. We worked hard, long hours, but we partied hard, too, man. One bar made the mistake of having celebrity-bartender night. It happened one time, and one time only! That's all I need to say!
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The Wire (2002) really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of. If you see me on the street, feel free for the rest of my life to call me Bunk.
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