Doug Olear个人资料

Best known for his role as FBI Agent, Terry Fitz Fitzhugh on the critically acclaimed HBO crime drama The Wire, which he played for 5 seasons. A former Golden Gloves Boxing champion, Doug trained under the tutelage of the late Emanuel Steward and The Kronk Boxing Team in Detroit and Arizona. He trained with the likes of World champion Thomas Hearns and Heavyweight champion Michael Moorer. He gave up a professional boxing career to study acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York and furthered his studies at The Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC. He performed in over two dozen classical and contemporary plays and toured the US in plays dealing with the dangers of teen substance abuse as well as the promotion of racial equality in the educational system. Doug spent a year performing at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC as Lt. Nick Rosetti in the play "Shear Madness" and six months at The Mason Street Theatre In San Francisco in the same role. He made his Off-Broadway debut in "The Brothers Berg" creating the role of Walter Berg, and following that performed with the late Al Freeman, Jr., in "Conflict of Interest" at The New Federal Theatre.