Wood Harris – IMDb: Wood Harris, Actor: Remember the Titans. Harris was born Sherwin David Harris in Chicago, Illinois, to John and Mattie Harris. However, he works under his nickname, “Wood”. Attended New York University Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School. Has performed in many films and various stage productions including plays by August Wilson, William Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams. He is …
Sweetwater – IMDb: Directed by Martin Guigui. With Wood Harris, Cylk Cozart, Dave Cobert, Jude Thomas. In the fall of 1950, the game of basketball changed forever when Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton entered the NBA. The story of the first African American contracted to play in the NBA.
‘Paid in Full’ is high in ’80s drug-scene street value: Drug money flowed like water across Harlem in the 1980s as a generation embraced cocaine and turned a small posse of dealers into local superstars. Ace (Wood Harris), his best friend, Mitch (Mekhi Phifer), and Mitch’s business partner, Rico (the rapper Cam’ron, in his film debut). Chronicling the almost accidental way in which each fell into the drug trade and was violently ejected from it, “Paid in Full” resonates as a history of Harlem’s anti-Renaissance, a time of intoxication with hot red convertibles, heavy gold chains, flashy Rolexes and full-length minks.
Daphne Rubin-Vega, Wood Harris Join Broadway’s A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones have announced that the role of ‘Stella’ will be played by two-time Tony Nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega and the role of ‘Mitch’ will be played by Wood Harris, in the upcoming Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Emily Mann. They will join Blair Underwood as ‘Stanley’ and Nicole Ari Parker as ‘Blanche’. This production is slated to hit the boards, Spring, 2012. Theatre is TBA.
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: sherwin “wood” Harris is an american actor . he is known for playing the drug kingpin on the HBO crime drama The Wire . from 2016 to 2017, he played Barry Fouray on he is the younger brother of actor Steve Harris . in 2002, he starred in the cult-classic film Paid in Full . he also produced his own debut album, Beautiful Wonderful . in 2012, Harris narrated the ESPN 30 for 30 film Benji . he also played Harold “Mitch” Mitchell in the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams . in 2015, he reunited with The Wire
