I just can't get past that part in that "people from the wire/hlots" clip where the medical examiner is in the middle of a heated confrontation with Tony Gray and lifts his chin up. Perhaps the most uncanny Wire-actors-in-other-things moment I've seen.
― EDB, Thursday, 22 October 2009 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i think marimow has an uncredited role in the 30 rock 3rd season christmas ep as jenna's accompanist
that's Tina Fey's husband, who does the score for 30 Rock and often appears as Jenna's accompanist
he is about half the height of Marimow
― RAPTOBER (sic), Thursday, 22 October 2009 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
omar was on law & order this week
This past week I watched like 8 various Law & Orders at various times and ALL of them had Wire actors in them somewhere. Nick Sobotka as a failed actor. Burrell as an upstate cop, sorta improbably letting Benson's brother off the hook for shooting a hostage. Carver as Goren's temporary replacement. Rawls as a convict/informant. Method Man terrorizing Nigerians. Judge Phelan as a New York judge. Omar as that hitman. It might have been more than 8, even.
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Friday, 23 October 2009 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
The crossover isn't surprising -- there's a crapload of actors in the Wire and pretty much any TV actor hits L&O at some point -- but like four of those were watched during some kind of marathon, so it was like four in a row
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Friday, 23 October 2009 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Just saw Valchek in the trailer for The Blind Side.
― Leee, Thursday, 29 October 2009 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i just saw him in that "Red Dragon" movie last night - he plays a security guard
― sarahel, Thursday, 29 October 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Brother Mouzone as a colonic therapist in Bored To Death, beatifically promising to find all Zach Galifinakis' rectal treasures
― gin & diatonic (sic), Sunday, 8 November 2009 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i want to see lester freamon star in an ike turner bopic IMMEDIATELY
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 8 November 2009 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Carver as Goren's temporary replacement.
That episode also has four actors from Oz in it!
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 8 November 2009 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
how has stringer beel in the office not been mentiones?
http://craignj.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/idris-elba-and-steve-carell.jpg
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 8 November 2009 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
bell
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 8 November 2009 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link
took me a while to remember who she was, but McNulty's ex-wife on the USA show "White Collar"
― musically, Sunday, 8 November 2009 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cdn.videogum.com/img/thumbnails/photos/true_blood_2_finale/andy_jason.jpg
― Jeff, Sunday, 8 November 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
clarke peters as cathy tyson's psychotic pimp in 'mona lisa'
― jØrdån (omar little), Saturday, 21 November 2009 07:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Cutty is the coach in the video game Left 4 Dead 2.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, tru?
― ilx mooncup (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
wallace is in the new season of friday night lights!
― Lovelace, Monday, 30 November 2009 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
He was also on Bones.
― Leee, Monday, 30 November 2009 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Michael is in Rihanna!
sorry.
― dan selzer, Monday, 30 November 2009 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Omar is so so sad in the Road.
― wmlynch, Monday, 30 November 2009 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm really curious to see what Wallace looks like 9 years later
― EDB, Monday, 30 November 2009 03:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I just saw a teenage Seth "Ellis Carver" Gilliam on the Cosby Show a moment ago!
― EDB, Friday, 11 December 2009 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel like seth gilliam is in that upcoming sarah jessica parker/hugh grant movie? as a cop.
― horseshoe, Friday, 11 December 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
if not then i saw him in the trailer for some other terrible movie recently
― horseshoe, Friday, 11 December 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I was randomly channel surfing and had stopped on the Cosby Show and thought to myself "hey, this guy looks like Carver". I watched the whole thing to make sure it was him. Saw him on L&O:CI as a detective, and on Oz where he played a CO (along with a scene with him in full naked glory). I'm sure his wife must be a very happy woman, etc.
― musically, Friday, 11 December 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
McNulty presenting Have I Got News For You, right now.
― nate woolls, Friday, 11 December 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
xp - yeah he was good in Oz.
― sarahel, Friday, 11 December 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
avon barksdale in southland tales
― cozwn, Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BAAv2lNnnI
^^^ opening scene starting @ 0:09
― dmr, Friday, 18 December 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Both Lester and Rawls have pretty major roles in s.2 of Damages.
― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:09 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
just getting into damages and rawls in drag is LOL
― tehresa, Sunday, July 26, 2009 2:02 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
weirded me out that in the Rawls drag scene, Lester makes his first appearance AND another character uses a Judge Phelan-esque turn of phrase about "throwing a hump into her"
― my nickname on ILX is frapped up shawty (some dude), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Andre Royo (Bubbles) is supposed to be on the season premiere of Fringe.
― turtles all the way down (mh), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, he was hilarious on Party Down, and not typecast, which was sweet.
― turtles all the way down (mh), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Lester Freamon in 'Covert Affairs',
and Bunny Colvin in 'Burn Notice'
― Official Cheese-Filled Snack of NASCAR since 2002 (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Senator Clay Davis on an old episode of L.O last week...no 'sheeeeeit' though. Didn't seem right.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw Hackers for the first time a couple of weeks ago and had to LOL every time Bunk was on screen.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Idris Elba (Stringer Bell) played a gigolo in Absolutely Fabulous.
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orMGGiRoDtI
― Well, because whatever happened changed him. (Dr. Superman), Thursday, 15 July 2010 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Levy as a teacher in Veronica Mars.
― Stew, Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:55 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Just saw this. Was so happy to see him!
― jaymc, Monday, 16 August 2010 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Clay Davis in Rubicon!
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 16 August 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Rawls as Michelle Williams's dad in Blue Valentine.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Sunday, 16 January 2011 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Idris Elba was in Takers, using his natural accent. which was kind of stupid because he was the one barking the orders during a bank robbery, and the fact that he had an accent made him easy to identify. one of many bad plot points.
― strawberry shartcake (San Te), Sunday, 16 January 2011 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
a few wire actors have been on 'the good wife' -
chris partlow (gbenga akinnagbe) and burrell (frankie faison) in recurring son-and-father preacher roles
kima (sonja sohn) guest starred in an episode
― j., Monday, 17 January 2011 07:35 (thirteen years ago) link
kima is also in the main cast of this upcoming abc show http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_Proof
― J0rdan S., Monday, 17 January 2011 07:40 (thirteen years ago) link
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, January 15, 2011 9:41 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
rawls does an assload of v/o work, hear him on tv and radio ads all the time
― Princess TamTam, Monday, 17 January 2011 09:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Beadie Russell in Green Zone.
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/1630/greenzone01gregkinneara.jpg
Also spotted Prez playing a sex offender in an episode of "Medium".
― Pheeel, Monday, 17 January 2011 10:53 (thirteen years ago) link
um...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1347995/ITVs-planned-Fred-Rose-West-drama-upsets-victims-families.html
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Rawls was sorely underused in Blue Valentine. I was hoping for a scene that featured him predominantly, knowing how good he can be.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
herc in a new a&e show called "breakout kings" (or some shit)
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 27 January 2011 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
frankie Faison is on that mediocre Blue Bloods show right now
― teen laqueefah (San Te), Thursday, 27 January 2011 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJqFUWbITug1:56
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Thursday, 27 January 2011 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link