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Updated · Variety · May 25

Wendell Pierce Lands 4 Simultaneous Roles Across Othello, Elsbeth, Jack Ryan and Raising Kanan

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Updated · Variety · May 25

Wendell Pierce Lands 4 Simultaneous Roles Across Othello, Elsbeth, Jack Ryan and Raising Kanan

Q: After achieving his career 'quadfecta,' what artistic mountain will veteran actor Wendell Pierce set out to conquer next?

Wendell Pierce’s next artistic mountain is to make his “quadfecta” a standing annual goal: a TV series, a film, a theater production, and a classical text every year. Pierce has said his original “trifecta” ambition — balancing stage, television and film — evolved after his experience with “Othello.” He now wants to formally add Shakespeare or another classical work to keep his skills sharp, saying he needs “some Shakespeare or a classical text every year to keep those chops up.” That makes the answer less about one specific new role than about a higher standard for his career. Even after finally checking Othello off his bucket list, he is aiming to keep testing himself across all four mediums on a recurring basis. Related ambitions mentioned in coverage include revisiting musically driven work such as “Treme,” and potentially returning to past roles like Clarence Thomas in “Confirmation.” But the clearest next challenge he has identified is this expanded annual artistic regimen: TV, film, theater and classical text.

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Wendell Pierce said he has turned his long-running "trifecta" goal into a four-part feat this month, appearing at once in stage, TV, film and another TV drama.
This weekend puts three of those roles in play together: Shakespeare Theatre Company's "Othello," the "Elsbeth" Season 3 finale on CBS, and Prime Video's new "Jack Ryan: Ghost War."
A fourth role arrives June 12, when Starz premieres the final season of "Power Book III: Raising Kanan," giving Pierce simultaneous turns as both a police captain and a robber.
Pierce traced the ambition to a 2019 moment in London when he realized he was concurrently in "Death of a Salesman," Amazon's "Jack Ryan" series and Tribeca-winning film "Burning Cane."
The 40-year veteran said the overlap reflects his ideal "journeyman actor" career—working across theater, television and cinema while adding classical text each year to sharpen his craft.

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Wendell Pierce Achieves Quadfecta with Simultaneous Roles in "Othello," "Elsbeth," and "Jack Ryan" Movie

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Wendell Pierce Achieves Quadfecta with Simultaneous Roles in "Othello," "Elsbeth," and "Jack Ryan" Movie

Wendell Pierce Lands 4 Simultaneous Roles Across Othello, Elsbeth, Jack Ryan and Raising Kanan

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