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 ...

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

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 ...

Idris Elba tells Amy Poehler that he’s never watched his critically acclaimed series, The Wire. Find out what he said here.

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

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 critically acclaimed series is often ranked among the greatest ...

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

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

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