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

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

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

British actor, musician and DJ Idris Elba was born to immigrant working-class parents – his father was from Sierra Leone, and his mother was born in Ghana. He was brought up in East London before ...

He told Amy Poehler on her Good Hang podcast: "If I'm really honest, like, I didn't watch The Wire. "And I feel bad. It's not that I'm not a fan of it. I was there. I made a show that was, you know, ...

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 ...

His character, Russell "Stringer" Bell, became one of the most iconic in the series — propelling Elba into other big projects, like playing Heimdall in Marvel's "Thor" and "Avengers" films, and ...

One of the most critically acclaimed crime dramas of all time is becoming a huge streaming hit, 23 years after its original ...