Jim True-Frost

Jim True-Frost is an American actor whose work spans stage, television and film. Born in Greenwich in 1966, he attended high school in Winnetka, Illinois. He joined the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble in Chicago in 1989, after earlier performing with Remains Theater, which William L. Petersen co-founded. His stage work has included Broadway appearances and performances in Sierra Leone. He is best known for playing Roland Pryzbylewski across all five seasons of HBO's The Wire from 2002 to 2008, and for playing James Woodrow in Treme from 2010 to 2013. His film roles include Singles (1992) and Off the Map (2003), the latter with fellow Steppenwolf member Joan Allen and directed by Campbell Scott. In 2008 he portrayed Brutus in the American Repertory Theatre's production of Julius Caesar, and he appeared in Steppenwolf's Broadway staging of August: Osage County, which earned the Tony Award for Best Play.