As Antoine Batiste, a womanizing trombone player whose path to respectability was one of the bright spots in Treme’s stories of post-Katrina New Orleans, Pierce found a character almost as indelible as the Bunk. Like many Wire vets, Pierce, the actor who brought The Wire’s hard-drinking, anything-for-a- joke Detective Bunk to unforgettable life, found his way to Treme, the more languid, less loved (but still well worth checking out) follow-up TV series from The Wire creator David Simon. She memorably guested as the mother of a boy Ilana babysits on Broad City. Without a doubt the biggest star in a minor role on The Wire, Amy Ryan - whose main claim to fame pre- Wire was playing Téa Leoni’s friend on the unbearable sitcom The Naked Truth - leveled up her game considerably while playing Port Authority officer Beadie Russell, whose accidental discovery of a grisly crime is at the heart of The Wire’s second season. With a snazzy new Blu-ray boxed set out to help remind viewers where many of these actors came from, here’s a roundup of where you can find them - cops and gangbangers alike. Schreiber also debuts on HBO’s The Brink as a slightly out-of-his-mind, pill-popping fighter pilot, but he’s just one of a number of stars from The Wire showing up on television this season. This month has seen Wire alums Aiden Gillen (Baltimore politico Tommy Carcetti) wrap his fifth season as ever-scheming puppet master Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish on Game of Thrones, and Pablo Schreiber (in-over-his-head dockworker Nick Sobotka) return as “Pornstache” on season three of Orange Is the New Black.
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