Wood Harris

Known for ActingBorn 1969-10-17 (age 56)Chicago, Illinois, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Rhapsody

The Wire

House

BMF

Justified

Oz

Shooting Stars

The New Edition Story

Hawaii Five-0

Blade Runner 2049

Remember the Titans

One Battle After Another

Creed

As Good as It Gets

Creed III

Empire

Ant-Man

Creed II

The Watsons Go to Birmingham

The Twilight Zone

Numb3rs

FOREVER

My Coolest Years

NYPD Blue

Above the Rim

Dredd

Space Jam: A New Legacy

Paid in Full

Lady in the Lake

Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television

The Last O.G.

Not Easily Broken

Joy Road

The Siege

Akil the Fugitive Hunter

Celebrity

Always and Forever

Hendrix

Kanye West: College Dropout [Video Anthology]

The Heart Specialist

Train Ride

The Shop

Dirty

Once Upon a Time in Venice

The Breaks

Southland Tales

9/11

Next Day Air