Stringer Bell

Character from The Wire

Fictional characterfictional human television characterQ7624009

Present in work: The Wire
Creator: David Simon
Performer: Idris Elba
Sex or gender: male
Occupation: drug trafficker
, businessperson
, murderer
+1 more
Citizenship: United States

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Russell "Stringer" Bell is a fictional character and one of the main antagonists in The Wire, played by Idris Elba. In the criminal world of early 2000s Baltimore, Bell serves as drug kingpin Avon Barksdale's second-in-command and assumes direct control of the Barksdale Organization during Avon's imprisonment. Bell is a terse and brooding leader, who shuns the flamboyance of the likes of Avon for ruthless pragmatism and legitimacy.

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