Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Wood Harris.
Last updated on November 7, 2024.
Sherwin David "Wood" Harris is an American actor. He has portrayed the drug kingpin Avon Barksdale on the HBO crime drama The Wire, cocaine dealer Ace in Paid in Full and high school football player Julius Campbell in the 2000 film Remember the Titans. He is also known for playing Brooke Payne on the BET miniseries The New Edition Story in 2017. From 2016 to 2017, he played Barry Fouray on VH1 miniseries The Breaks. Most recently, Harris portrayed Damon Cross on the Fox series Empire for its fifth and final sixth season. Currently, Wood Harris is starring as drug lord "Pat" in the Starz series BMF alongside Demetrius Flenory Jr. and his older brother, Steve Harris.
We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress and a substitute schoolteacher, off and on. So, that all adds up to no money.
My first artistic love was drawing and painting.
If you overdo something, you end up typecast. You always have to expand.
With film, you can feel confident that you're doing good work, but never know what it's going to look like.