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

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 I’m really honest, I didn’t watch ...

Idris Elba may have made a mark with his role on The Wire, but that doesn’t mean he watched the show. The 52-year-old English ...

Idris Elba confessed that he has never seen a single episode of the HBO hit that made him a household name, and he has no intention of watching it now.

Poehler, very much a member of the show's fan club, identified The Wire as "a series that changed my life" and revealed that ...

After 20 years, Idris Elba has come around on the death of his The Wire character Stringer Bell. But when he first got word ...

Idris Elba has shared a surprise admission about The Wire, which is commonly regarded as the greatest TV show of all time.

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

King Charles is collaborating with actor Idris Elba for an as-yet-unnamed documentary about The King’s Trust, a charity ...

Elba played erudite but cold-hearted gangster Stringer Bell in three seasons of The Wire, one of the leaders of the drug ring being surveilled in the police operation that gives the all-time-great ...

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

Idris Elba talked to Amy Poehler on her 'Good Hang' podcast about the good and the bad of being in their 50s, from physical ...