# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wood-harris
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:04:16.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wood-harris"
name: "Wood Harris"
slug: "wood-harris"
description: "Sherwin David \"Wood\" Harris is an American actor. He first garnered attention for his role as Motaw in the Jeff Pollack film Above the Rim (1994), before portraying high school football player Julius Campbell in the Walt Disney Pictures film Remember the Titans (2000) and Jimi Hendrix in the Showtime television film Hendrix (2000). He attained further recognition for his portrayal of drug kingpin Avon Barksdale on the HBO crime drama The Wire (2002–2008). Harris also played the role of cocaine dealer Ace, based on the life of Azie Faison, in the crime film Paid in Full (2002)."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wood_harris_air_force1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1969-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.05
  momentum:             0.3699863121655813
  historical:           24.93340533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365445/"
    handle:    "nm0365445"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump