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^ a b Mooney, Jake (January 11, 2008).

^ a b c d "Daphne Rubin-Vega, Wood Harris Join Broadway's A Streetcar Named Desire".

Jordan for Creed, the latest installment of the Rocky franchise, reprising the role in its sequel. In 2015, he reunited with The Wire cast member Michael B. In the same year he also played Harold "Mitch" Mitchell in the Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams alongside Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, and Daphne Rubin-Vega. In 2012, Harris narrated the ESPN 30 for 30 film Benji. The film centers on a clash between a young up-and-coming rapper and an older one at the top of his game, the former played by Jamie Hector (whose character Marlo Stanfield had a similar role with respect to Harris's character in The Wire). In 2009, Harris starred in the film Just Another Day, as a successful fictional rapper named A-maze. As of March 2018, it is still in pre-production. In June 2008, director Martin Guigui revealed that Harris was cast as Nate "Sweetwater" Clifton in Sweetwater, a movie about the first black player in the NBA. He also produced his own debut album, Beautiful Wonderful, which was intended for release in 2005.

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He starred as Avon Barksdale, loosely based on the real-life Nathan Barksdale, in the first three seasons of HBO's original series The Wire, as well as one episode in the fifth season. In 2002, he starred in the Dame Dash produced cult-classic film Paid in Full, based on the true story of three Harlem drug dealers with Harris playing the real-life kingpin Azie Faison. Later that year, Harris received his first NAACP Image Award nomination for "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture" along with the Blockbuster Movie Award nomination for "Favorite Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture" for his role as Julius "Big Ju" Campbell in Remember the Titans. Harris subsequently guest-starred in a variety of television and film venues before portraying legendary rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix in Showtime's 2000 film, Hendrix. While enrolled in NIU, Harris starred in his first major film role in the basketball drama Above the Rim, opposite Duane Martin and co-starring Tupac Shakur, and appeared in many theatrical stage productions of various off-Broadway plays. He is the younger brother of actor Steve Harris. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts from Northern Illinois University (NIU) and a Master of Arts from New York University.

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Harris was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of seamstress Mattie and bus driver John Harris.