what the wire actors did next...

Barnavave

Nathan Barksdale, the former Baltimore gangster who inspired characters in "The Wire," has died in federal medical prison in North Carolina at age 54.

Barksdale, who went by the nickname "Bodie," was a notorious Baltimore criminal in the 1980s, running a violent heroin-dealing operation in the Murphy Homes. He was shot more than 20 times and had to have his right leg amputated below the knee.

Key characters on "The Wire" included nods to Barksdale, such as a drug kingpin Avon Barksdale and another dealer named "Bodie" Broadus. Nathan Barksdale eagerly embraced the connections, releasing a DVD that chronicled his life and in which he was interviewed by the actor Wood Harris, who played the Avon Barksdale character.

"In real life he was one of the most notorious and resilient gangster drug kingpins Baltimore has ever seen," a narrator on the video says. "He was a magnet for violence."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-avon-barksdale-dies-20160216-story.html

Barnavave

Life & Style Weekly revisits McNulty, Kima, and more of our favorite cast members.

http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/posts/the-wire-cast-where-are-they-now-90589/photos/dominic-west-the-wire-134279

Barnavave

A mini "The Wire" reunion is coming to TV this weekend.

Tray Chaney and J.D. Williams, who played Poot and Bodie on the HBO drama, respectively, are together again in the drama "Saints & Sinners," which airs at 9 p.m. Sunday on Bounce TV.


Chaney is Kendrick Murphy, while Williams plays Jabari Morris in the show that follows the drama surrounding a Southern Baptist church in small-town Georgia. The two characters are involved in a heist and will be seen on "Saints & Sinners" for the next three Sundays.

Both actors appeared in all five seasons of "The Wire," playing drug dealers in the Baltimore-based drama.

Bounce can be seen on channel 203 on Comcast in Baltimore city. It's also on Verizon Fios 459 and WMAR's digital channel 2.3.

GerB40

Bodie has barely changed. He'll never be able to escape that role...

Barnavave

GerB40 wrote: »

Bodie has barely changed. He'll never be able to escape that role...

Don't you mean Kenny Wangler has barely changed?

GerB40

Barnavave wrote: »

Don't you mean Kenny Wangler has barely changed?

I would've said that had I known his name. Every day's a school day..

Barnavave

GerB40 wrote: »

I would've said that had I known his name. Every day's a school day..

His real name is JD Williams, he played the part of Kenny Wangler in Oz.

Barnavave

Unsurprisingly, many of the cast of The Wire are also appearing in David Simon's new show, The Deuce, about the rise of the porn industry in the seedy criminal underworld of 1970s New York.
First episode looked quite promising, with a few familiar faces.

civis_liberalis

Was not planning on watching that, but I didn't know it was Simon's.

Barnavave

civis_liberalis wrote: »

Was not planning on watching that, but I didn't know it was Simon's.

You won't be disappointed, unless like me you prefer to binge watch an entire series, but it is excellent.

Barnavave

And of course Slim Charles also makes an appearance in episode 2.

RIP Reg Cathey who played Norman. Norman was Carcettis very witty campaign manager

Barnavave

Nick Sabotka/Pablo Schreiber plays one of the lead roles in Den of Thieves alongside Fifty Cent and Gerard Butler, a decent but predictable modern cops and robbers thriller.

.red.

Check out Wendell Peirce' Wikipedia page, and have a read thru his "personal life" section

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Pierce