Wood Harris
Acting
Born 1969-10-17
Chicago, Illinois, USA
58 credits
Awards
Nominated for 1 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Award
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture 1 nominated
- 2001 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Nominated Remember the Titans
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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).
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Filmography
Acting
57 credits
House
Hawaii Five-0
NYPD Blue
The Wire
Numb3rs
Oz
Blade Runner 2049
One Battle After Another
Justified
Ant-Man
Empire
The Twilight Zone
Creed III
Creed
Creed II
Space Jam: A New Legacy
The Last O.G.
BMF
The Shop
Dredd
The Siege
Lady in the Lake
Remember the Titans
As Good as It Gets
FOREVER
Southland Tales
Celebrity
Once Upon a Time in Venice
Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television
Dirty
The Babymakers
Paid in Full
Not Easily Broken
The New Edition Story
Shooting Stars
My Coolest Years
Above the Rim
Committed
Next Day Air
9/11
Black Poker Stars Invitational
Always and Forever
The Heart Specialist
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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Akil the Fugitive Hunter
Hendrix
Small Vices
The Breaks
Train Ride
Dough Boys
4 Life
Rhapsody
Just Another Day
Joy Road
Gangland: The Musical
The Avon Barksdale Story
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