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Wood Harris

Wood Harris

Birthday: 1969-10-17 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
FOREVER

as    Eric Edwards

2025
One Battle After Another

as    Laredo

2023
Shooting Stars

as    Dru Joyce II

2023
Creed III

as    Tony 'Little Duke' Evers

2020
Always and Forever

as    Danny

2018
Gangland: The Musical

as    Reeby’s Manager

2018
Creed II

as    Tony 'Little Duke' Evers

2017
The New Edition Story

as    Brooke Payne

2017
9/11

as    Michael

2017
Once Upon a Time in Venice

as    The Prince

2017
Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television

as    Vince Vincente

2017
Akil the Fugitive Hunter

as    Wood Harris

2016
The Breaks

as    Barry Fouray

2013
The Watsons Go to Birmingham

as    Daniel

2012
The Babymakers

as    Darrell

2012
Dredd

as    Kay

2011
Joy Road

as    Tony Smalls

2010
The Avon Barksdale Story

as    Himself

2009
Just Another Day

as    A-Maze

2009
Not Easily Broken

as    Darnell Gooden

2009
Next Day Air

as    Guch

2009
Dough Boys

as    Julian France

2008
2007
4 Life

as    Dayvon

2006
Dirty

as    Brax

2006
The Heart Specialist

as    Dr. Sidney Zachary