Clarke Peters
Biography
Clarke Peters (born 7 April 1952) is an American actor, singer, writer and director best known for his role as Detective Lester Freamon on the HBO drama The Wire.
Peters was born Peter Clarke in New York City and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey where he graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in 1970. Peters earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical for writing the revue Five Guys Named Moe (he starred in the 2010 Edinburgh production of the show). As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway in The Iceman Cometh (1999), which won him the Theatre World Award, and as shady lawyer Billy Flynn in the revival of Chicago in 2000 and 2003. His West End theatre credits include Blues in the Night, Porgy and Bess, The Witches of Eastwick, Chicago, and Chess. In regional theatre he has appeared in Driving Miss Daisy, The Wiz, Bubbling Brown Sugar, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Carmen Jones, and The Amen Corner.
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Peters is familiar to television viewers as Detective Lester Freamon in the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire. Peters also starred in the HBO mini series The Corner, portraying a drug addict named Fat Curt, as well as the FX series Damages as Dave Pell. Both The Wire and The Corner were created by writer and former Baltimore Sun journalist David Simon. Peters also stars in Simon's HBO series Treme.[1] Other screen credits include Notting Hill, K-Pax, Mona Lisa, Freedomland, and Marley & Me.
He has recently also appeared in the UK show Holby City, appearing as Derek Newman, the father of nurse Donna Jackson. He voiced a part in the Doctor Who animated episode Dreamland. And in the In Plain Sight episode Duplicate Bridge as a man in Witness Protection named Norman Baker/Norman Danzer. He played Nelson Mandela in the 2009 film, Endgame. In 2010, he read Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption for BBC 7
In the 2010 HBO series, Treme, he plays the role of Albert Lambreaux.
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