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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Wood Harris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The series opens on the funeral of King Vance, CEO and patriarch. His son Hale sits in the back row, hollow-eyed in a wrinkled black suit, watching as mourners shake his uncle Claude's hand like he's already the boss — because he is. Within three weeks of the funeral, Claude has absorbed the company, and within six, he has married Gert in a quiet ceremony that the press calls tasteful and Hale calls unforgivable. Hale has been given a corner office, a generous allowance, and a polite but firm suggestion that he return to finish his MBA. He doesn't. He drinks. He stares at his father's old watch. His best friend Rex Horatio arrives from out of town and stays on the couch. That night, a security guard named Marcus at the Vance Capital building contacts Rex with something strange — the building's after-hours camera footage from the night King Vance died shows a second person in the parking garage. The footage is corrupted. The timestamp is wrong. But the silhouette is unmistakably Claude.
