Wendell Pierce is a proud journeyman actor
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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Moseley. My guest today, actor Wendell Pierce. Is taking on a part he's wanted to play for years. Shakespeare's Othello, one of the most demanding roles ever written for the stage. The classic is a story of a celebrated military leader.
who is slowly manipulated into doubting his own wife. Until jealousy and deception consume him. Pierce is known to many as Detective Buck Morland on The Wire and Antoine Batiste on HBO's Tramet. On Broadway, he became the first black to play Willie Lowman in Death of a Salesman. earning a twenty twenty three Tony nomination for the role.
His range these days runs just as wide. A police captain on CBS's Ellsbith, a CIA officer and Jack Ryan Ghost War. And a villain in raising Canaan on stars. He plays a fellow at the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, DC, until june twenty eighth. Wendell Pierce, welcome to Fresh Air. Thank you for having me, Tanya.
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