Overheard With Evan Smith

Wendell Pierce, Actor And Author

Wendell Pierce is an actor, producer, and author, best known for playing Detective Bunk Moreland on HBO's "The Wire." A New Orleans native, he starred as Antoine Batiste in Treme, the HBO series about the city after Hurricane Katrina. Pierce is a three-time NAACP Image Award Nominee for best actor in a television drama and won the 2008 Image Award for best actor in a television movie. His memoir The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken was recently published.