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2023/11/22 Report

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When HBO's The Wire premiered on June 2, 2002, critics adored it but audiences were slow to find it. However, once it picked up momentum, it became a hit, and served as a launching pad for some of the biggest actors working today.

At the show's start, Dominick West, Sonja Sohn and Lance Reddick were among the biggest names; these days, you'll recognize such A-listers as Michael B. Jordan, Idris Elba and Tristan Wilds as those who got their start on the gritty, darkly comedic series about the institutions that revolve around Baltimore's crime scene, from the media to the police officers to the criminals themselves.


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Catch up on what the cast members of The Wire have been up to since it wrapped in 2008. (Warning: Spoilers ahead!)

Dominic West: James McNulty

From watching Dominic West's portrayal of detective James 'Jimmy' McNulty, you might guess the actor was a Baltimore native. However, it's all just really great dialect work as West actually hails from the U.


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"Whenever I open my mouth in a room full of Wire fans I'm conscious of a sort of deflation of, 'Oh, dear. He's not McNulty,'" the actor joked in an interview with Absolutely Radio. "It's nice that people thought I am American — otherwise it wouldn't have worked, would it?"

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