After 20 years, Idris Elba has come around on the death of his The Wire character Stringer Bell. But when he first got word of his departure from the show, the actor admits he was less than thrilled.

"The Wire" is full of truly memorable moments and faces, but some of them are simply more impressive than others. Two of the show's standouts, stick-up man Omar Little (Michael K. Williams) and drug ...

Idris Elba is certainly proud of his time on The Wire, but that doesn't mean he wants to relive it. The actor who spent three seasons as business savvy criminal Russell "Stringer" Bell recently broke ...

You can call Stringer Bell many things. As one of the lead characters on HBO's seminal crime drama "The Wire," he showed his intelligence by attempting to apply Economics 101 philosophies to transform ...

Stringer Bell isn’t tuning in. Idris Elba rose to fame on the acclaimed HBO crime drama “The Wire,” but he recently made a shocking admission: he’s never seen the show, and refuses to watch it. “If ...

He's faced down drug lords as Stringer Bell, gone toe-to-toe with a cybernetic mercenary in "Hobbs & Shaw," and suited up for ...

During its five-season run on HBO, co-creators David Simon and Ed Burns'The Wire delivered a menagerie of streetwise criminals who captured our imagination as they tried to survive on the mean streets ...

Fans of HBO's "The Wire" know that Idris Elba's character Stringer Bell was one of the most fully-formed criminals to ever knock off a college textbook. Elba is one of the few "Wire" alums to continue ...

Idris Elba's crisp British accent has become one of the actor's defining traits — and he deploys it skilfully whenever he gets to play a Brit on screen. But that wasn't always the case. In fact, to ...

The actor spent three seasons as the smooth-talking criminal, Stringer Bell. Idris Elba is certainly proud of his time on The Wire, but that doesn't mean he wants to relive it. The actor who spent ...