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Russell "Stringer" Bell is a fictional character in The Wire, played by Idris Elba. In the criminal world of early 2000s Baltimore, Bell serves as drug kingpin Avon Barksdale's second-in-command and assumes direct control of the Barksdale Organization during Avon's imprisonment. Bell is a terse and brooding leader, who shuns the flamboyance of ...
The Wire is an American crime drama television series created and primarily written by American author and former police reporter David Simon for the cable network HBO.The series premiered on June 2, 2002, and ended on March 9, 2008, comprising 60 episodes over five seasons.
The writing staff includes acclaimed crime fiction novelist George P. Pelecanos from Washington, D.C. [3] [4] Pelecanos has commented that he was attracted to the project because of the opportunity to work with Simon. [5] Staff writer Rafael Alvarez was a colleague of Simon's from The Sun and a Baltimore native with working experience in the ...
Idris Elba: Russell "Stringer" Bell: Main 36 Frankie R. Faison: Ervin Burrell: Main Recurring 40 Lawrence Gilliard Jr. D'Angelo Barksdale: Main 18 Wood Harris: Avon Barksdale: Main Guest 32 Deirdre Lovejoy: Rhonda Pearlman: Main 44 Wendell Pierce: William "The Bunk" Moreland: Main 54 Lance Reddick: Cedric Daniels: Main 58 Andre Royo: Reginald ...
Actor Idris Elba on Monday urged the British government to ban machetes and serrated “zombie" knives to help stop young people falling victim to knife crime. The London-born star of “The Wire ...
Baltimore homicide detective Jimmy McNulty investigates the murder of Omar "Snot Boogie" Betts, a "rip and run" kid who was shot while attempting to rob a back alley craps game. An eyewitness describes to McNulty the illogical, but to that point accepted, pattern of the regulars allowing Snot Boogie to join the game each week, knowing in ...
Idris Elba has lined up his next TV gig. The Luther vet is set to star in and executive-produce the Apple TV+ thriller Hijack, which hails from Lupin creator George Kay. Told in real time, the ...
John Doman as William Rawls (10 episodes), the BPD's deputy commissioner who works with Burrell to try and keep the department's crime rates down. Idris Elba as Russell "Stringer" Bell (12 episodes), Avon's intelligent and business-minded underboss whose friendship with him frays under his desires to go legitimate.