Jamie Hector

Jamie Hector is an American actor who started performing soon after high school, when he tried out for a community theater company. He studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City and worked on television series including New York Undercover, Third Watch, and Law & Order while in college. His early film work included Paid in Full (2002), and he credits the short Five Deep Breaths (2003), with him in the lead, as a defining project; it was selected for Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, and IFP and won 16 awards. From 2004 to 2008 he played the drug kingpin Marlo Stanfield on The Wire, a role Rolling Stone later ranked second among the greatest TV villains. He appeared in Max Payne (2008) and Night Catches Us (2010), voiced Emile-A239 in Halo: Reach, and starred as Detective Jerry Edgar across seven seasons of Bosch. Other credits include Queen of the South and We Own This City.