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

The real-life inspiration for Stringer didn’t meet the same fate (thankfully). “The Wire” is famously based off of former ...

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

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

The Wire wrapped in 2008 and Idris stepped into a larger career. He starred in Luther, a British psychological thriller ...

Elba, whose career includes a lot of what might be called prestige genre, has such natural poise and gravity that one assumes ...

Idris Elba has revealed that he’s never watched “The Wire” and he never will. The hunky actor and sought-after DJ confessed ...

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

With “Black Mirror’s” range of styles, stories, and, yes, actors, the Netflix series inevitably varies in quality. Idris spends nearly all of the episode held hostage in the back of a car, and yet he ...

Idris Elba has revealed that he’s never watched “The Wire” and he never will. The actor and sought-after DJ confessed that he hasn’t seen a single episode of the HBO hit that made him a household name ...

Idris Elba's American breakout role was as Stringer Bell in The Wire, but the actor hasn't gone back to revisit his ...