Wendell Pierce (Detective Bunk Moreland) Now
Shortly after his role as Detective Bunk Moreland on The Wire ended, Wendell Pierce signed on to another HBO series, Treme, as the trombonist Antoine Batiste. He also became the host of the nationally syndicated Peabody Award-winning radio program Jazz at the Lincoln Center in 2009.
He currently stars on the CBS sitcom The Odd Couple, but in addition to acting, he’s a serious businessman. Pierce founded the non-profit Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corp. to build solar and geothermal homes for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina and responded to Michelle Obama’s initiative to bring more produce to food deserts by starting a chain of grocery stores, Sterling Farms, in the ninth ward of New Orleans.
