After 20 years, Idris Elba has come around on the death of his The Wire character Stringer Bell. But when he first got word ...

The real-life inspiration for Stringer didn’t meet the same fate (thankfully). “The Wire” is famously based off of former ...

Idris Elba may have made a mark with his role on The Wire, but that doesn’t mean he watched the show. The 52-year-old English ...

One of the most critically acclaimed crime dramas of all time is becoming a huge streaming hit, 23 years after its original ...

Elba played erudite but cold-hearted gangster Stringer Bell in three seasons of The Wire, one of the leaders of the drug ring ...

He is best known for playing Nelson Mandela in the biographical film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) and drug trafficker ...

Poehler, very much a member of the show's fan club, identified The Wire as "a series that changed my life" and revealed that ...

Idris Elba has insisted he will never watch The Wire. The 52-year-old actor had his breakout US role was criminal Russell ...

Before landing his breakout role on “The Wire,” Idris Elba had to work hard jobs to stay afloat, he said on a recent episode ...

Series creator David Simon stated that Stringer's death wasn't personal but rather "to make a political point." ...