Wire Actors in other things

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