About Wood Harris: Sherwin David "Wood" Harris is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as high school student Julius Campbell in the 2000 film Remember the Titans and the drug kingpin Avon Barksdale on the HBO crime drama The Wire.
With film, you can feel confident that you're doing good work, but never know what it's going to look like.
We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress and a substitute schoolteacher, off and on. So, that all adds up to no money.
My first artistic love was drawing and painting.
If you overdo something, you end up typecast. You always have to expand.
