Wire Actors in other things

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There was a TV movie called Something the Lord Made, starring Mos Def and Alan Rickman, about a black physician at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s -- you can tell they shot it in Baltimore because like half The Wire has a couple lines (Prop Joe is the janitor).

Better answer: D'Angelo in Cecil B. Demented

Better answer: James Ransone basically being Ziggy in some movie I half-watched about dirtbag teenagers where actually JASON SEGEL plays the scary guy who knifes people

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2001_Rock_Star/2001_Rock_Star_011.jpg

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Junkie Johnny as the "hit man mafie killer" in Bully.

try again

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xp I can't find a picture of Bunny Colvin as "god" in Sex & death 101

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Robert Wisdom in Storytelling

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Reg E. Cathey in Airheads: http://www.zuguide.com/image/Reg-E-Cathey-Airheads.13.jpg

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A particularly WTF one was Michael K. Williams blink and you'll miss it appearance in "The Hulk"

wendell pierce in pariah - after seeing that i couldn't help wondering what bunk is like at home

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clarke peters IS nelson mandela

xp which Hulk - the first one or the remake?

The most recent one. He's literally in for two seconds. Doesn't even have a line.

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xp - yeah, the bf pointed that one out to me.

another "wasn't that?" - John Donan (Rawls) as helpful construction worker in Die Hard 3

Prez was in a Burger King commercial with P. Diddy recently.

bunny colvin on that one episode of how i met your mother

holy christ, carcetti was in QaF?

I had NEVER put two and two together (in bed) and realized that Carcetti was NATHAN. OMGOMGOMG

That would have made The Wire SO MUCH FUNNIER.

Sorry, not Nathan -- Stuart, obv. That would explain why I kept thinking, "We like him. We can stay." which is an entirely inappropriate sentiment for Stuart turning up.

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Oscar nominated

Michael K. Williams was in Gone Baby Gone, too.

xposts omg ha i never realized the QAF/Carcetti connection either - i knew he was familiar but couldn't place him. didn't even figure out that dude wasn't american!

can't find a pic of kima in Step up 2: The Streets lol

i've been meaning to start a thread like this for literally years (althoguh more as a "search and destroy" watching guide thing than a picture thread)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oih2f9ogcJY

^^ doing the Clay Davis "sheeeit" in 25th Hour around the same time as his first Wire appearance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaL8HqufFI

in scorsese's 'bringing out the dead':

michael k. williams as the mortally wounded drug dealer nicolas cage tries to save.

sonja sohn as cliff curtis' doped-up girl.

Isiah Whitlock (Clay Davis) is actually one of two Wire actors to sport beards and play beleaguered fathers in the same series of Verizon commercials (the other being the guy who plays a Sun editor and was also on Flight of the Conchords)

xp omar - was just about to post that, after trying to find pics to no avail.

Carcetti was ridiculous in Shanghai Knights:

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michael k. williams has a bit part in the spike lee ww2 movie

Herc and Judge Phelan are both in Public Enemies.

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Let us not forget:

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^^ rawls as child molester's driver in Mystic River

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xp - this can be a search & destroy thread, too! What's the McNulty hair metal pic from?

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some of these pix are not werking for me, do we have this?

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xp ah that would probably be the "mcnulty hair metal pic" i bet

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Mc Nulty hair metal pic is from "Rock Star"

McNutty in Mona Lisa Smile
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McNulty looks utterly ridiculous in any other role doesn't he? Hairstyle choices don't help

Sonja Sohn in Brothers and Sisters (Calista Flockhart is on left):

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Oz:

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can't find a pic of kima in Step up 2: The Streets lol

― Roz, Friday, July 10, 2009 3:17 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

funny thing about this is that she's playing basically the same 'stern parent/guardian' role that Rhonda Pearlman played in the first Step Up movie!

Is Oz worth watching?

yes

i remember it being less polished and crazier than the wire, but i loved it at the time.

here is the crooked reporter from series five as tina fey's date in the underrated 'baby mama'

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iirc he was in 'duplicity' too

he directed station agent and the visitor too, obv

there are loads more ozzers in the wire also: norman, lester, avon

Dude who plays Tony Gray is in "Duplicity" and "Michael Clayton"

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Sadly I can't find a picture of Prez with soul patch and sensitive world-music fan hat as seen in Singles.

wait wait no way that was him -- the maitre d'?

Commissioner Burrell plays a homeless man in Freejack

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/13/A70-6555

At the water fountain.

kima and bubbles were both in some movie called "G"

mind is currently blown by Prez in the Hudsucker Proxy

I'm tempted to see the remake of Pelham 123 because Chris Partlow is in it. Is he one of the hijackers?

oz def worth watching

is that omar w/knife from the upcoming adaptation of The Road?

burrell is also in the thomas crowne affair remake

xp, y

Marlo and Bubs on Heroes

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yeah MKWilliams is in The Road, i definitely heard about that a while back

mind is currently blown by Prez in the Hudsucker Proxy

ditto

lester on Life on Mars:

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is he playing the same character there? must be the most typecast of these guys.

no idea never watched the us version of LoM

The ultimate "Burrell" answer here is Coming to America, yes?

the newish basic cable procedural "In Plain Sight" has Spiros from S2 in the cast, and Freamon was a guest star one of the first episodes

[i]The ultimate "Burrell" answer here is Coming to America, yes?[i]

You'll love it. Its a real shit hole.

love this thread

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this movie sounds really awful ... I kinda want to see it though
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unfortunately, it is not nearly awful enough to actually be entertaining. avoid.

Bubbles' white druggie friend was Telly in KIDS

^^yeh I recognized him right off the bat

must say I am finding it difficult to resist urge to make "Sopranos actors in other things" thread (except it would mostly just be Woody Allen and Scorsese movies, probably)

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Actually Shakey I think there'd be a decent Hal Hartley contingent for Sopranos!

keep your Sopranos talk off my Wire thread!

i almost forgot, i did a blog post once compiling all the rap videos featuring actors from The Wire: http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2006/08/hip-hoprb-videos-featuring-cast.html

of course, it's almost 3 years old, and the list would be twice as long if i updated it now

fuck it I'm doin it

xp some dude - that's awesome!

for awhile, snoop was like in EVERY GODDAMN VIDEO and almost always next to Rick Ross.
Off topic, but does rick ross just show up in videos unless you dust the stage with salt beforehand? Dude is like the BET Candyman.

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xpost: totally floored by the fact that McNulty = Cromwell. At the time of broadcast, I thought the latter performance was just phenomenal, totally believable both in terms of physicality and character, with a figure -arguably, the English Stalin - who could so easily have been played as a pantomime villain.

I've watched the whole of The Wire on DVD over the last three months, and never once twigged that McNulty was the same guy.

saw Barksdale play a SWAT cop on an episode of House not so long ago.

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how 'bout http://www.impawards.com/2007/posters/daddys_little_girls_ver3.jpg

Seriously no mention of Lance Reddick in Fringe?

hey, I don't have permission to access daddys little girls jpg!

I'm tempted to see the remake of Pelham 123 because Chris Partlow is in it. Is he one of the hijackers?

― faucet that ass (sarahel), Friday, July 10, 2009 4:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nah one of the hostages, v little screen time

^^ doing the Clay Davis "sheeeit" in 25th Hour around the same time as his first Wire appearance

― 51 jump street (some dude), Friday, July 10, 2009 3:20 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i know! i rewatched 25th hour recently and was weirded out by that.

do we have one of these threads for lost?

then reddick would be super meta because he's on wire/lost/fringe

don't forget oz

I'm cracking up at every one of these McNulty pics

Sonja Sohn sounds like an 80s MC name

I swear I saw Clay Davis do his Sheeeeeit thing in something ELSE (besides 25th hour) but I can't remember wtf it was. Think he was playing a cop or detective again.

me too! bc i haven't seen the 25th hour

I think one of the DVd commentary tracks mentions this ...25th hour and something else.

Some good ones I've seen myself

Isiah Whitlock is in Gremlins 2 as a firefighter for about half a second.

Wendel Pierce is in Hackers

Dominic West is Sandra Bullock's alcoholic boyfriend Jasper in the very shit 28 Days. Bullock goes into rehab, West is cynical.

http://www.nerf-herders-anonymous.net/images/DominicWest_28Days.jpg

Carver was in Starship Troopers

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Also, saw Meth on a CSI: Something rerun playing at the bus depot.

Happy now bitch?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/07/12/2009-07-12_wild_gun_battle_in_brooklyn.html

Knowing Frank Sobotka first brings serious lols to the climax of 8mm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0H3OfLeL1Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1-AyM90mms

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McNutty Bison?

Parentheticals are Generation Kill d00ders.
Partlow, Frank Sobotka in Fringe. (Capt. Patterson, too.)
Rhonda Pearlman in Bones. (Captain America in Bones, too.)
Bubs, Cutty in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. (Sgt. Espera, too.)
Bunny in Prison Break. ;_;

dominic west is sort of the new ben chaplin. oddly, they have both been in movies with sandra bullock. hm.

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i watched an episode of the west wing last night in which ronnie perlman appeared and was a REPUBLICAN and i felt betrayed.

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I tend to willfully blame the general paucity of quality roles for black actors in Hollywood anytime someone from The Wire ends up in a Tyler Perry project.

even if it were dominic west?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEnCupB7a5M

Irv Burrell plays a cop in Cat People

chris in taking of pelham 123 remake

i watched an episode of the west wing last night in which ronnie perlman appeared and was a REPUBLICAN and i felt betrayed.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, July 14, 2009 4:01 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lt daniels is in the west wing as a dc cop in one ep.

and i *think* d'angelo's mum is in it at some point as a politician.

union leader dude who cops it in series 2 is the shifty poss-pa3d0 teacher that keanu is defending at the start (and end LOL) of Devil's Advocate

outside of rap videos, where's snoop these days?

and i *think* d'angelo's mum is in it at some point as a politician.

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, July 14, 2009 5:13 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, she's like a pro consultant that leo brings in to improve Bartlet's numbers post-Zoe's kidnapping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXp3AMgbG6k

Check out the first guy. ALSO total blast from the past if you watched PBS as a kid.

I thought Freefall was outstanding.

And in a little schedule serendipity, Lester Freamon was on Holby City earlier this evening..

Lester Freamon was on Holby City

That's a bit depressing.

Others: Burell is in "Cookout"
Domenic Lombardozzo/Herc is in SWAT

Both Lester and Rawls have pretty major roles in s.2 of Damages.

^^ I kinda want to see that show.

It's pretty empty and silly, but very engrossing and impressively plotted. Kind of feels like Law and Order: SVU with a season-long arc.

was trying unsuccessfully to find a Nick Sobotka pic from Criminal Intent (Wire folks on Law & Order could be a whole other thread), but this one, though from a Broadway show, was too good not to post.

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Clay Davis as a cop for about 2 seconds in Everyone Says I Love You.

Tony Gray and the Greek in Michael Clayton.

just getting into damages and rawls in drag is LOL

lol just saw clay davis on Enchanted

Frank Sobotka turns up briefly in Broken Flowers as one of the trailer trash guys who beats up Bill Murray. And he's a cop in True Blood of course.

Oh, and Michael turns up briefly as one of the pupils in Half Nelson.

90210

queer as folk

okay, I've been watching oz - and so far: Boadie (doing lots of eye-rolling and getting forced to the ground by officers of the law), Burrell (as the gangsta turned muslim that's put to death's dad), and Avon (brief appearance as guard that smuggles a gun to the muslims)

tons of Oz people ended up being on The Wire.

Kenny
Herc
D'Angelo's mom
Carver
Daniels
Rawls
Freamon
Greek FBI guy
Brother Mouzone

I'm sure there are others too.

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Snoop Pearson and Jay Landsman were on tonight's episode of Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations".

the real Jay Landsman or the fake one?

The real one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j0jwcgxIYM

what the hell does she have to do with food lol

No Reservations is billed as a travel show with an emphasis on food, and often has little to do with food.

also, just saw a few seconds of that clip...we're 2/3rds done with season 5 of the Wire and have last night's No Reservations on the DVR. Can anybody tell me if there's any spoilers in the show last night? Like does Bourdain say "Snoop, it was awesome how that spaceship came in at the end of season 5!"

nope

Yeah, she looks real pretty.

mcnulty dies

Bunk was a ghost all along.

thats fucking hilarious Dr. Phil. Now if it's true, that really sucks that you told me, and if it's not true and you're thinking you're funny, it still sucks because I'm thinking about it. Pretty lame.

It was obvious Bunk was a ghost and season 3 was just a dream. In any case, I won't be looking at this thread again for a while.

Season 5 is when they go back in time.

they fire all the homicide detectives and replace them with a little boy who can see and talk to dead people.

McNulty is transported in the 70s and is haunted by Bowie lyrics -- is it an hallucination or is it real?

It ends with a costumed dance number featuring everyone who ever appeared in the show.

all the wire and deadwood stars need to have a showdown on lost. ian mcshane is done with kings, right?

thats fucking hilarious Dr. Phil. Now if it's true, that really sucks that you told me, and if it's not true and you're thinking you're funny, it still sucks because I'm thinking about it. Pretty lame.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1:49 PM

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I'm gonna tell you in all seriousness that McNulty does not die.

^ lie

although, in a broader sense, true: you see, mcnulty has been dead all along. it's a real headfuck.

Boadie sees dead people ...

What, Snoop was born in 1980! Meaning she was 27 in season 5 of the wire.

That's almost as ridiculous as Michael K. Williams being 41 at the same time.

Oh wow, he really was 41! That is ridiculous.

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Beadie (Amy Ryan) as Holly on The Office (the best TV show ever)

black don't crack yo

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Irving Klaw, "The Machine," Chris Bauer has played a lot of smutlords.

I saw Levy in some kids show the other night.

POOTIE TANG!!
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(Reg E Cathey & can't find the pic of JD Williams)

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carver showed up on a cosby show rerun the other day

Avon Barksdale played Jimi Hendrix in a TV movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgNvauPMbQE

And check this safe sex ad starring various Wire peeps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTM6BiUoqo

Seeing as he spent much of the series, "ball deep in random pussy" as Bunk put it, McNutty is hardly the most obvious person to support safe sex!

Okay, I'm part-way through season 4 of Oz and so far: Norman (Reg Cathey), Daniels, Herc, Carver, Lester, Brianna Barksdale, Bodie, Burrell, and I think one of the East Side dealers (in a flashback showing him shot at a dice game).

Bunk in Hackers is great, you can see even at that early stage his suit-acting is at a very high level, getting lots of mileage out of doing his jacket up. Brother Mouzone is also in Hackers for a second.

I don't think anyone's mentioned Burrell in that upcoming quirky-aspie movie Adam. Based on the trailer, his character's purpose is to sit on a park bench and dispense wisdom.

I think that was also his role in Freejack.

Also: Brianna Barksdale as a political consultant on The West Wing.

I was sad that Herc only lasted a couple episodes in Oz. I had high hopes for him.

high rapey hopes

Nooooo!

Bunk in Hackers is great, you can see even at that early stage his suit-acting is at a very high level, getting lots of mileage out of doing his jacket up.

just saw EXACTLY this on a random repeat of hackers. *fiddles with suit buttons, straightens tie*

love this face
http://thecia.com.au/reviews/h/images/hendrix-5.jpg

Namond's badass mommy De'londa played a flight attendant on Leverage.

It took a while for me to recognise her without the big hair and fur coat...

Rhonda Pearlman played an FBI agent on last weeks Law and Order CI. I really hoped she was going to be an assistant DA.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/prison_economy_spirals_as_price

Lester turns up (and is mildly amusing) in godawful Paul Dano/Zooey Deschanel indie rom-com Gigantic

clay davis was in a really good episode of svu i caught on usa the other day, playing the ex-husband of a raped police officer

in hackers i was more distracted trying to remember where i'd seen the gay dude before -- it was as sally-cant-dance in Con Air -- and by it being pretty terrible.

Reg E Cathey was really good in Oz.

x-post

Fellow also got taken to dinner by Michelle Pfeifer. Can't relate to a straightforward yes/no critical stance on hackers

can't believe i just sat through awful teen slasher flick Prom Night. also can't believe Ziggy and Stringer are in it... as cops.

I watched Nick and Norah last night (shut up!); Burrell is in it.

it's been driving me nuts (and it may have been mentioned and I just missed it) but I finally realized:

http://www.retroist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/a-different-world.jpg

Clay Davis in Goodfellas

Kadeem Hardison is in The Wire?

Clarence Royce!

jk jk jk

tho i kinda wish they had picked kadeem to play carcetti in retrospect

Dean Winters would have made an awesome Carcetti.

i would support a "recast the wire" thread.

if you started it, I would contribute.

I will, but am going to have to fight my natural inclination to post/put up with horribly formed "jokes" of the "Miley Cyrus as Snoop" variety

Whitley = Snoop

lolo xpost

Recast 'The Wire'

herc is in 'miami vice'

Levy as a teacher in Veronica Mars.

Bunny Colvin as a vengeful angel on Supernatural.

dominic west narrated a documentary on 100 years of the girl guides on bbc4

did he do it in the character of mcnulty?

no

pity

frank sobotka as ace pool player in sweet and lowdown

did he do it in mcnulty's fake british accent bc that was ace
xpost

I watched that "Obsessed" movie with Idris ... he looks better with facial hair than without. Psycho stalker chick was not nearly as accomplished as the one in Season 2 of Dexter.

Brianna Barksdale in some trailer forget what it was. Fame maybe?

just saw Frank Sobotka holding a train hostage on some random TV show on A&E. Probably a CSI, couldn't be bothered.

the "stuff that terrified you as a kid" thread reminded me that carcetti's advisor, reg e. cathey, was a cast member of Square One.

Here he's a rapping judge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qopIOUYZ7cE

i just got to the part in oz where reg e cathey comes in and he still terrifies me.

yeah he was in the opening credits in the vid i posted above, i didn't even remember him, the only people i remember from that show were the mathnet cops

"I don't dig bunk."

D'Angelo smoking ice and playing russian roulette high with an undercover agent portrayed by an Australian underwear model, in Patrick Swayze FBI-veteran-on-the-edge series The Beast.

amazing

well maybe not 'amazing', but seeing burrell in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is probably going to be good for a laugh.

This thread is great, but I can't even believe no-one has mentioned Bunk as the Republican Lexus dealer who gets booted off the bus in Spike Lee's Get On the Bus! (Wendall Pierce also appears as himself in Lee's Katrina doc.)

whoever said the thing about the end of 8MM being hilarious if you see it after knowing Frank Sobotka OTM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDXkDZI7kCo

That soundtrack is perfect

Clark Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op3JksjPw6Y

Cdn TV movie from a few yrs ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um2ZFg6jbwg

Bodie hijacks a truck with Brendan in the 2nd episode of the Sopranos!

Carver was in Starship Troopers

― clotpoll, Saturday, 11 July 2009 15:22 (2 months ago)

Was just watching this, and I said "wow, apart from Neil Patrick Harris, I think this is the best thing any of these actors ever wound up being in," which I figured would probably be untrue based on some older character actor, and not because Carver popped up in the next scene.

haha wait, I had forgotten Rue McClanahan was in it, too

it = Starship Troopers and not, sadly, The Wire

Avon Barksdale in 'Next Day Air'

omar was on law & order this week

http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/uploadedImages/articles/742_Brokeology997532.jpg
th' bunk in off-broadway play broke-ology

omar's in The Road, right?

yeah, though it ain't much of a spoiler to tell you it don't work out well.

Saw Diedre Lovejoy in the trailer for The Stepfather: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814335/

i think marimow has an uncredited role in the 30 rock 3rd season christmas ep as jenna's accompanist

I just can't get past that part in that "people from the wire/hlots" clip where the medical examiner is in the middle of a heated confrontation with Tony Gray and lifts his chin up. Perhaps the most uncanny Wire-actors-in-other-things moment I've seen.

i think marimow has an uncredited role in the 30 rock 3rd season christmas ep as jenna's accompanist

that's Tina Fey's husband, who does the score for 30 Rock and often appears as Jenna's accompanist

he is about half the height of Marimow

omar was on law & order this week

This past week I watched like 8 various Law & Orders at various times and ALL of them had Wire actors in them somewhere. Nick Sobotka as a failed actor. Burrell as an upstate cop, sorta improbably letting Benson's brother off the hook for shooting a hostage. Carver as Goren's temporary replacement. Rawls as a convict/informant. Method Man terrorizing Nigerians. Judge Phelan as a New York judge. Omar as that hitman. It might have been more than 8, even.

The crossover isn't surprising -- there's a crapload of actors in the Wire and pretty much any TV actor hits L&O at some point -- but like four of those were watched during some kind of marathon, so it was like four in a row

Just saw Valchek in the trailer for The Blind Side.

i just saw him in that "Red Dragon" movie last night - he plays a security guard

Brother Mouzone as a colonic therapist in Bored To Death, beatifically promising to find all Zach Galifinakis' rectal treasures

i want to see lester freamon star in an ike turner bopic IMMEDIATELY

Carver as Goren's temporary replacement.

That episode also has four actors from Oz in it!

how has stringer beel in the office not been mentiones?

http://craignj.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/idris-elba-and-steve-carell.jpg

bell

took me a while to remember who she was, but McNulty's ex-wife on the USA show "White Collar"

http://cdn.videogum.com/img/thumbnails/photos/true_blood_2_finale/andy_jason.jpg

clarke peters as cathy tyson's psychotic pimp in 'mona lisa'

Cutty is the coach in the video game Left 4 Dead 2.

oh, tru?

wallace is in the new season of friday night lights!

He was also on Bones.

Michael is in Rihanna!

sorry.

Omar is so so sad in the Road.

I'm really curious to see what Wallace looks like 9 years later

I just saw a teenage Seth "Ellis Carver" Gilliam on the Cosby Show a moment ago!

i feel like seth gilliam is in that upcoming sarah jessica parker/hugh grant movie? as a cop.

if not then i saw him in the trailer for some other terrible movie recently

I was randomly channel surfing and had stopped on the Cosby Show and thought to myself "hey, this guy looks like Carver". I watched the whole thing to make sure it was him. Saw him on L&O:CI as a detective, and on Oz where he played a CO (along with a scene with him in full naked glory). I'm sure his wife must be a very happy woman, etc.

McNulty presenting Have I Got News For You, right now.

xp - yeah he was good in Oz.

avon barksdale in southland tales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BAAv2lNnnI

^^^ opening scene starting @ 0:09

Both Lester and Rawls have pretty major roles in s.2 of Damages.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:09 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just getting into damages and rawls in drag is LOL

― tehresa, Sunday, July 26, 2009 2:02 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

weirded me out that in the Rawls drag scene, Lester makes his first appearance AND another character uses a Judge Phelan-esque turn of phrase about "throwing a hump into her"

Andre Royo (Bubbles) is supposed to be on the season premiere of Fringe.

Also, he was hilarious on Party Down, and not typecast, which was sweet.

Lester Freamon in 'Covert Affairs',

and Bunny Colvin in 'Burn Notice'

Senator Clay Davis on an old episode of L.O last week...no 'sheeeeeit' though. Didn't seem right.

Saw Hackers for the first time a couple of weeks ago and had to LOL every time Bunk was on screen.

Idris Elba (Stringer Bell) played a gigolo in Absolutely Fabulous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orMGGiRoDtI

Levy as a teacher in Veronica Mars.

― Stew, Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:55 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Just saw this. Was so happy to see him!

Clay Davis in Rubicon!

Rawls as Michelle Williams's dad in Blue Valentine.

Idris Elba was in Takers, using his natural accent. which was kind of stupid because he was the one barking the orders during a bank robbery, and the fact that he had an accent made him easy to identify. one of many bad plot points.

a few wire actors have been on 'the good wife' -

chris partlow (gbenga akinnagbe) and burrell (frankie faison) in recurring son-and-father preacher roles

kima (sonja sohn) guest starred in an episode

kima is also in the main cast of this upcoming abc show http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_Proof

Rawls as Michelle Williams's dad in Blue Valentine.

― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, January 15, 2011 9:41 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

rawls does an assload of v/o work, hear him on tv and radio ads all the time

Beadie Russell in Green Zone.

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/1630/greenzone01gregkinneara.jpg

Also spotted Prez playing a sex offender in an episode of "Medium".

um...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1347995/ITVs-planned-Fred-Rose-West-drama-upsets-victims-families.html

Rawls was sorely underused in Blue Valentine. I was hoping for a scene that featured him predominantly, knowing how good he can be.

herc in a new a&e show called "breakout kings" (or some shit)

frankie Faison is on that mediocre Blue Bloods show right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJqFUWbITug
1:56

Both Lester and Rawls have pretty major roles in s.2 of Damages.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:09 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just getting into damages and rawls in drag is LOL

― tehresa, Sunday, July 26, 2009 2:02 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

weirded me out that in the Rawls drag scene, Lester makes his first appearance AND another character uses a Judge Phelan-esque turn of phrase about "throwing a hump into her"

― my nickname on ILX is frapped up shawty (some dude), Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:36 AM (6 months ago)

I just saw that episode last week, and had forgotten about it being mentioned here

Cutty's one of the bad guys in that terrible Green Hornet movie.

Cutty was also on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

clay davis talking about being like omar from the wire in that 'cedar rapids' trailer is a bit much for me

Cedar Rapids straight to teal & orange.xls thread

the greek is in the crow, lordz.

clay davis talking about being like omar from the wire in that 'cedar rapids' trailer is a bit much for me

it was a running joke in the movie. the character is a straight laced insurance salesman who mentions loving "hbo's television program the wire" and then there is some funny payoff. haven't seen the trailer, but it works in the movie, even if it is a little weird and he never says "sheeeeeeeit"

also dont think ive mentioned this yet but bubbles' wife owns a restaurant under my apt. i met her the other day and she is a very pleasant lady. the end.

Rolling R&B Thread 2011

Odell Watkins in my local bar last night; he's apparently also a regular?! Favorite dumb celebrity sighting in a while.

for some reason I keep seeing Walon at Steve Earle concerts....

I watched Nick and Norah last night (shut up!); Burrell is in it.

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic)

I.e. polyphonic is me, 1.5 years in the future.

is this herc's first lead role (co-lead)?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/arts/television/27breakout.html?hpw

Rawls play a Bajoran in Star Trek Deep Space Nine:

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080510020028/memoryalpha/en/images/f/f7/Lenaris_Holem.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/03/30/article-0-0B2EAFBE00000578-197_233x423.jpg

McNulty as Fred West

Yes! I am looking forward to that a lot. :-)

there's a csi miami episode on right now where lt daniels committed some sort of crime (by removing a surveillance wire!) and bubbles shows up as a sleazy drug dealer

Bodie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09qDvl4tB1c

my friend sorta knows bodie, friend of the family kinda thing... says he's exactly like u imagine him to be, intense slightly fucked up quiet guy... i think he had a drug problem too, but how much is that is ~hood talk~

home town theatre and i happen to be visiting around then

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118037561

watched the first season of Treme - got misty-eyed when one of the characters told Clarke Peters that there were probably a bunch of dead bodies in the vacant project houses

Rhonda Pearlman as a "concerned parent" in Bad Teacher

Did anyone notice Bunk in "Horrible Bosses", basically just playing Bunk? I swear he even had the same suit.

And Cutty was in there too as a barman.

Bunk was funny tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJiL6ps8hZQ

would watch dazed and confused with

Nice guy IMO.

http://www.slate.com/id/2301768/

mcnutty

McNutty did the VO for a nice glossy documentary on street sports shown on Channel 4 on Monday ("Concrete Circus"). Was wracking my brains for the whole programme trying to work out where I knew the voice from!

What's the tally on The Good Wife appearances? Off the top of my head:
Kima
Burrell
Partlow
Boadie
Cutty

West End McNulty:

http://www.playbill.com/images/photo/b/u/butleyuk460.jpg

got tickets for that mcnulty/freamon othello at the crucible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhO2WJ3MNRI

wow just saw the trailer for the fred west thing

Watching series three of Oz at the moment. Lance Reddick's fake Jamaican accent is ridiculous. I'm amazed he wasn't shanked for being an undercover narc within twenty minutes.

Just saw Nicky Sobotka on The Good Wife.

xp - there's a scene in the Wire where Omar and his bf are watching Oz; forget the season/episode, pretty sure it was a Beecher/Keller scene.

nicky sobotka was on weeds too just recently

Bubs as Rainn Wilson's pal and fellow short order cook in Super.

... and now Carver in the season finale of The Good Wife. You'd think that show would be set in Baltimore instead of Chicago.

Anyone watch the Dominic/Fred West thing then? Not sure what i though of it tbh

It made me laugh.

yeah, that's what was weird about it

I thought it was v good. Woman playing Rose was awesome.

McNutty was fun in the very gory yet entertaining "Centurion"

Probably already mentioned, but I noticed in the four minutes of that awful Jonah Hex movie that I could tolerate, that Lance Reddick is in it and appears to play some sort of Q-type character.

McNulty as Fred West

He was good, the programme started off OK and got gradually more terrible

My wife bought me the Blu-Ray Star Wars set and so I got to see the deleted scene where McNulty gets a line of dialog!

dominic west was _really_ good as iago! he does a credible sheffield accent (lol eton) and when he is lying (which happens a lot in othello) he breaks out his weird lying face (perfected in season 5)

this face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn0ylNZhOJI

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/dynamic/00649/othello_649402b.jpg

here is a review http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/sep/25/othello-crucible-grief-matthew-review?newsfeed=true

<3 the crucible. theatre in the round is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1swlUtEkXZ0

this one's a bit of a wire where's waldo.

dominic west was _really_ good as iago! he does a credible sheffield accent (lol eton)

He was actually born there but, yeah, I imagine any Sheffield accent would not have survived Eton

And then he went to Trinity. Poor accent never had a chance.

i think that's part of why he was cast. pretty sure he's done the crucible before. he was the only one doing a non-RSC accent except peters, who was doing the same accent as morgan freeman in robin hood prince of thieves

saw bodie in a UPS commercial a week or two ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo5eXKGODIo

too bad he doesn't do that teeth-spit thing on the guy at the end

randy on that suburgatory show tonight

Idris Elba is in the new Ghost Rider movie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKH7BHzq_VM

Lester Freamon/Clarke Peters is the guy singing the deep-voiced backing vocals "got to keep on dancing', keep on dancing'"

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/03/22/ol-dirty-bastard-movie-casting/

putting my bet on shia getting the other role, unless he prices himself out

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/4100000/Huey-Sal-the-black-donnellys-4175539-400-261.jpg

Wire/Breaking Bad crossover in short-lived 2007 series The Black Donnellys

just noticed this one

http://i.imgur.com/zPIDj.jpg

Jermaine Crawford (Duquan) is in Damsels in Distress!

Lt. Daniels had a nice role in an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia playing a pimp in flashbacks to Danny Devito's past

Wendell Pierce: best known for his role in Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part II

omar was on law & order this week
This past week I watched like 8 various Law & Orders at various times and ALL of them had Wire actors in them somewhere. Nick Sobotka as a failed actor. Burrell as an upstate cop, sorta improbably letting Benson's brother off the hook for shooting a hostage. Carver as Goren's temporary replacement. Rawls as a convict/informant. Method Man terrorizing Nigerians. Judge Phelan as a New York judge. Omar as that hitman. It might have been more than 8, even.

both carver and bunk play nigerians in the same l & o episode

wendell pierce as… the announcer for the jazz at lincoln center radio show.

CREE LED lightbulb spokesman, Lance Reddick

^^^ I saw that and became sad.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5ts51PPToIg/UDEslKPF5ZI/AAAAAAAALnY/S_-I0rf1bmw/s1600/borgia.jpg

Rawls as the Pope

http://www.ssninsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Domenick-Lombardozzi-boardwalk-empire1-e1378496899261.jpg

Herc as Al Capone's brother

http://images.mstarz.com/data/images/full/30482/seth-gilliam-as-gabriel-on-the-walking-dead.jpg

Carver as a priest

Beadie in Birdman

http://i.imgur.com/nYwJelI.png

Man, I want Herc's overcoat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAlzQ0-5sjA

FBI Agent friend very briefly in a Choice Hotels ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAZVE50vRCA

Randy as the doomed artist boyfriend in Fear of the Walking Dead

that's Michael Kostroff (lawyer Maurice Levy) in the Samsung commercial featuring Hannibal Burress! weird gig but w/e

Wood Harris (Avon Barksdale) in Ant-Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFkVsiDYI3c&spf

Stew mentions the Avon Barksdale as Hendrix movie upthread, but the youtube was grayed out.

Had no idea.

http://i.imgur.com/DF4oVeM.jpg

maybe mentioned but goddamn if im not blown away by lester freamon being the bass voice in love and affection

Idris Elba was in the 2017/07/21 NY Times crossword (57 Across).

This a strange career move...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tgFHpWEUXU

bunny colvin and frank sobotka are in face off

http://deadline.com/2018/02/comedy-central-corporate-season-two-renewal-1202302983/

lance reddick does comedy (straight man role presumably)

https://shadowandact.com/idris-elba-in-the-long-run-comedy-sky-first-look

idris elba does comedy

Clark Johnson:

as "Black Gang Leader" in Adventures in Babysitting

https://cdn.torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016_10_25clarkjohnson2.jpg

as "Jefferson" in the '80s Canadian cop show "Night Heat"

http://www.rickstv.com/midsouth/6.jpg

wallace is in black panther

avon in blade runner 2049

mcnutly in the square

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/931720/in-the-long-run-sky1-idris-elba-comedy-release-date-trailer-cast-plot-jimmy-akingbola

a comedy created by and starring Idris Elba

nah you're alright

Is it just me or is Dominic West's English accent getting better?

ok, I've been obsessed with Graham Nash's Innocent Eyes music video from 1986 this week. This won't be the last time I bring it up on ilx either. And I might be wrong about this, but the actor playing the boy here - is that Carcetti? Especially look at his facial expression around 0:37.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KwQORT1T6k

The actor, Aidan Gillen, would have been 18 at the time. I can't find anything on his wikipedia page that would support him being in a (presumably) L.A.-based music video shoot.

also, he doesn't look anything like Aiden Gillen, and even looks more like the other main Queer As Folk dudes

https://contentforyoublog.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/queer-as-folk-biography-nathan-maloney-charlie-hunnam3.jpg

Sonja Sohn is great in High Flying Bird, though

I dunno. Maybe it was just the beady eyes and cheekbones. But he displays a couple of Carcetti-like (and even Littlefinger-like) facial expressions. Especially in those first 40 seconds during the living room sequence. The hair's obviously different, but it was the 80s and people did all kinds of shit with hair. I've never seen Queer as Folk, but I don't think he looks remotely like either of those two other dudes.

And you're probably right that it's not him, but I'd watched the video a few dozen times and every time his face came up, I was like "who the fuck is that?" And suddenly something about the look he gives around 0:37 really said Carcetti to me.

I didn’t watch the whole thing, just skipped to 0:37 tbh

Carcetti is Irish? That's almost more surprising than Stringer or McNutty being British.

Waiting for someone to tell me Lt. Daniels is from Dunfermline.

Guess you've never watched Game of Thrones

can’t believe someone named AIDAN GILLEN turns out to be Irish

I never got into Goblets of Fire or whatever.

and of course the guy on the right would grow up to have his ass aestheticized regularly on Sons of Anarchy

Leo Fitzpatrick plays in Maniac. One of the reasons I wanna see it.

Has Dominic West as Jean Valjean been deliberately ignored? Thought it was a BBC flagship production thing.

I believe the intent of this thread was to highlight Wire actors popping up unexpectedly in older stuff

Not noting that fairly famous actor Dominic West is still working

Clarke Peters is in the new BBC adaptation of His Dark Materia! 😮

Whoa, didn't know this was coming. Hope it's an improvement over the terrible Golden Compass film.

Same, and same.

http://i63.tinypic.com/1ny0rl.png

(michael kostroff in liar liar, typecast as a Partner)

I was a little wtf at Idris Elba being interviewed about his Coachella DJ set

Hasn't he been a DJ for a long time?

Indeed, it seems

Chris Bauer (Frank Sobotka with lots more hair) gets beaten up and kicked in the balls by Nic Cage minutes after the latter enters prison with John Travolta's skull under his face

meanwhile Travolta's FBI partner Robert Wisdom (Bunny Colvin but skinnier) is getting burnt to death at the Face/Off:Institute by Nic Cage with Travolta's face on his skull

nice

Couldn't find any previous mention of Burrell as the guard in the psychiatric prison in Silence of the Lambs.

No one seems to have mentioned Chad "Cutty" Coleman in The Expanse.

Bubbles in the Charlize Theron beer commercial

Most beer commercials have bubbles, tbrr

Clarke Peters rocking a not entirely unconvincing English accent in His Dark Materials.

Peters actually lived in London in the 70s and 80s, and in 1986 played a pretty despicable (but mostly silent!) pimp in Neil Jordan’s Bob Hoskins-classic Mona Lisa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1swlUtEkXZ0

I just saw Wendel Pierce as Willy Loman on the West End stage in London - in a production that did nothing to change my opinion on the hokey 'Why you I oughta' qualities of that particular play and of stage acting in general. Still it was either that or pay 70 friggin' quid to watch West Ham play Leicester City.

wire actors in the wire: thx to a canny xmas present from my sister's boyf i am just abt to start watching the wire for the first time!!

ex editor of the wire watches the wire while listening to wire

I think "mark s finally watches the wire" deserves its own thread

Wendel Pierce also in a rather hopeless role as Alfre Woodard's husband in Clemency, but for a change it's good to see a male actor in the supportive/anguished spouse role.

tombot otm

can i fill the new thread with gifs from CATS (2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr0A7TofowE

jellicle cops

Even though I'm the one who revived this thread I've never seen The Wire either!

come round to mine i now have it on DVD

So I hear.

Come round my yard I've got The Shield seasons 1 - 6 on't betamax!

Paul Ben-Victor (Spiros Vondas / Vondopoulos) as one of mob lawyer Christopher Walken's sub-goons in True Romance (alongside a pre-fat, pre-bald, pre-Sopranos Gandolfini )

I'm sure it's been posted before, but I did a literal spit-take when I showed my daughters Trapped in the Closet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNeITqRV3VQ

Domenick Lombardozzi (not-entirely-ethical Baltimore cop Herc) as a New York cop getting paid off with Britney Spears tickets in the first two minutes of Phone Booth (2003).

Rawls is on The Boys

There's a bit in the oral history book where Andre Royo (i think) mentions losing a job because they had cast Michael K. Williams in another role and didn't want two Wire actors in their movie because then people would compare it to The Wire.

Wonder what the record is for Most Wire Actors in a Single Film or TV Show is, post-The Wire. The Walking Dead had Cutty, D'Angelo and Carver, though I can't recall if Carver overlapped with the other two.

Damages season 2 had Rawls, Freamon and the newspaper guy from season 5. Clearly trying to be as complicated as the Wire and failing.

xp henry -- yes, they did overlap, but then two of them died soon after iirc

The question would be: as members of an ensemble cast, or in terms of appearances throughout the duration of a show? Like, if we're talking appearances, the winner would probably be something like CSI whatever or Criminal Minds or Supernatural or one of those long running killer/monster of the week shows.

Sadly I can't find a picture of Prez with soul patch and sensitive world-music fan hat as seen in Singles.

― joygoat, Friday, July 10, 2009 3:54 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just found this out today.

https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/21515218/1118full-singles-screenshot.jpg

caught bubbles in the slight but kind of cool and effective sci-fi Prospect the other day. "bubbles!" i said.

City on a Hill (Showtime): Rawls as Rawls, but a District Attorney arguing a case in front of Judge Phelan who plays Judge Phelan but with a Bahston accent

That's amazing.

Prez also turned up as a lothario poet/guitar teacher in Saint Frances (it's a good film too, on Netflix).

Such a long time since I saw this, I barely recall Prez's character, it's frightening how much the guy on the far left looks like Keir Dullea tho'.

I'm sure this is old news but Chris Bauer has a role in For All Mankind. I knew that he wore a fat suit when he played Sobotka, but damn, I didn't realize just how trim he is till I saw him on FAM.

Isiah Whitlock is in Gremlins 2 as a firefighter for about half a second.

― EDB, Saturday, July 11, 2009 8:51 AM

Dudes. DUDES.

https://i.imgur.com/Y7Nn9SA.png

Hizzoner Glynn Turman, Mayor Clarence Royce, was the science teacher in the first Gremlins!

whoa!