Wood Harris

Biography

Sherwin David "Wood" Harris (born October 17, 1969) is an American actor. He first garnered attention for his role as Motaw in the Jeff Pollack film Above the Rim (1994), prior to portraying high school football player Julius Campbell in the Walt Disney Pictures film Remember the Titans (2000) and Jimi Hendrix in the Showtime television film Hendrix (2000). He attained further recognition for his portrayal of drug kingpin Avon Barksdale on the HBO crime drama The Wire (2002–2008). Harris also played the role of cocaine dealer Ace, based on the life of Azie Faison, in the crime film Paid in Full in 2002. On television, Harris is known for playing Avon Barksdale in The Wire and Brooke Payne on the BET miniseries The New Edition Story in 2017. In addition, Harris starred as Barry Fouray on the VH1 miniseries The Breaks (2016–2017), Damon Cross on the Fox series Empire for its fifth and sixth season, and currently portrays the drug lord "Pat" in the Starz series BMF. He has also starred in films such as the 2009 dark comedy film Next Day Air, the 2015 Marvel Studios superhero film Ant-Man, the science fiction films Dredd (2012) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and the sports drama Creed (2015), along with its sequels Creed II (2018) and Creed III (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Wood Harris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Known For

House

as Bowman

Hawaii Five-0

as Russell Ellison

The Wire

as Avon Barksdale

One Battle After Another

as Laredo

Oz

as Officer Gordon Wood

Blade Runner 2049

as Nandez

Justified

as Jay

NYPD Blue

as Hector

Numb3rs

as Murphy 'Pony' Fuñez

The Twilight Zone

as Marvin Gardens / Dwayne Grant

Ant-Man

as Gale

BMF

as Pat

Creed II

as Tony 'Little Duke' Evers

Creed

as Tony 'Little Duke' Burton

Creed III

as Tony 'Little Duke' Evers

Dredd

as Kay

The Last O.G.

as Percy

Space Jam: A New Legacy

as Coach C

As Good as It Gets

as Cafe 24 Busboy

Lady in the Lake

as Shell Gordon