Wood Harris’s Net Worth, Height, Age & Personal Info Wiki

While still a student at NIU, Harris landed his first significant film role in the basketball drama Above the Rim, opposite Duane Martin and co-starring Tupac Shakur. He also appeared in several theatrical stage productions of various off-Broadway plays. Harris later appeared in a number of television and film roles before taking on the part of legendary rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix in Showtime’s 2000 film, Hendrix.

Later that same year, for his role as Julius “Big Ju” Campbell in Remember the Titans, Harris received his first NAACP Image Award nomination for “Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture,” as well as a Blockbuster Movie Award nomination for “Favorite Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.” In 2002, he starred in the cult classic Paid in Full, directed by Dame Dash and based on the story of three Harlem drug dealers, with Harris playing real-life kingpin Azie Faison. He played Avon Barksdale, a character loosely based on real-life Nathan Barksdale, in the first three seasons of HBO’s original series The Wire and one episode in the fifth.

Wood appeared in the 2009 film Just Another Day as A-maze, a successful fictional rapper. The plot revolves around a clash here between a young, slightly higher-compared rapper and an older one at the top of his game, with the former played by Jamie Hector, whose character Marlo Stanfield played a similar role to Harris’ character in The Wire. Harris narrated the ESPN 30 for 30 films, Benji, in 2012. The same year, he played Harold “Mitch” Mitchell in Tennessee Williams’ Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, alongside Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, and Daphne Rubin-Vega. He teamed up with The Wire’s Michael B. Jordan for Creed, the latest iteration of the Rocky franchise, in 2015 and reprised the role in its sequel. (4)