1. Clarke Peters is best known for his roles as Lester Freamon in the television series The Wire and Albert Lambreaux in the television series Treme.
15 Facts About Clarke Peters
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Clarke Peters wrote the book for the musical revue Five Guys Named Moe.
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Clarke Peters began to have serious ambitions to work in the theater at the age of 14.
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Clarke Peters graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in 1970.
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Clarke Peters starred in the Sean Connery space Western Outland as the treacherous Sgt.
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Clarke Peters followed this up with Unforgettable, a musical about Nat King Cole, which received scathing reviews.
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Clarke Peters starred in the 2010 British production of Five Guys Named Moe.
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In September 2011, Clarke Peters appeared on stage in a Sheffield Crucible Theatre production of Shakespeare's Othello, playing the title role opposite his Wire co-star Dominic West, who played Iago.
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Clarke Peters is familiar to television viewers as Detective Lester Freamon in the HBO series The Wire.
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Clarke Peters 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.
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Clarke Peters appeared in the British show Holby City, as Derek Newman, the father of nurse Donna Jackson.
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In 2010, Clarke Peters read Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption for BBC 7.
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From 2012 to 2013, Peters had a recurring role as Alonzo D Quinn in the CBS TV series Person of Interest.
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Clarke Peters played Easy Rawlins in a 1997 BBC Radio 4 dramatization of Walter Mosley's Black Betty.
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Clarke Peters narrated the BBC radio series Black Music in Europe: A Hidden History, as well as the audiobook version of Michael Chabon's novel Telegraph Avenue, released in September 2012 by HarperAudio.