Embracing Their Types! Actors Who Play The Same Role Over & Over Again
Wood Harris
Although Harris is a graduate of the NYU graduate acting program at the Tisch School of the Arts, somehow he’s gotten funneled into the acting pipeline that so many amateur black actors have worked. His photo on IMDB even shows a picture of Harris aiming a gun. Needless to say, we often see Harris in the role of criminal. We loved him as Avon Barksdale on The Wire but want him to play more than a drug dealer or “ex-banger” (as seen on Southland).