Frankie Faison

ABOUT FRANKIE FAISON

TV and film actor best known for playing Police Commissioner Ervin Burrell on HBO's The Wire and Sugar Bates on Banshee .

He was in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of King Lear.

He is the only actor apart from Anthony Hopkins to appear in the films The Silence of the Lambs , Hannibal, and Red Dragon.

He has three children with Jane Mandel.

He was in The Wire with Dominic West .