Frankie Faison

Acting · Born 1949-06-10 in Newport News, Virginia, USA

Biography

Frankie Faison is an American stage and screen actor, best known for his role as Deputy Commissioner Ervin Burrell in HBO's television series "The Wire", and as Barney Matthews in the "Hannibal Lecter" franchise. He studied Drama at Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, and graduated from New York Universities' Acting Program.

Filmography

• The Silence of the Lambs as Barney
• Do the Right Thing as Coconut Sid
• Mississippi Burning as Eulogist
• Till as John Carthan
• White Chicks as Elliott Gordon
• Red Dragon as Barney
• The Case for Christ as Joe Dubois
• Manhunter as Lt. Fisk
• Fatherhood as Mike
• The Thomas Crown Affair as Det. Paretti

TV

• The Wire as Ervin Burrell
• The Blacklist as Abraham Moores
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Tom Nickerson
• Grey's Anatomy as William Bailey
• Banshee as Sugar Bates
• Oz as Cornelius Keane
• Blue Bloods as Jeffords
• Elementary as Judge Brewster O'Hare
• Forever as Pepper Evans
• The Rookie as Christopher 'Cutty' Clark