Felicia “Snoop” Pearson is one of the most compelling actors on The Wire. She was discovered by another compelling actor on the show, Michael Williams (“Omar”) in a club in Baltimore. As evidenced by this article and this interview, she’s had a monumentally difficult life and done some awful things. She plead guilty to shooting and killing a 15-year-old girl when she herself was only 14, and was incarcerated for years. She’s making a go of it, though, and while Wire creator David Simon points out that it’s a tough road — “How man roles are out there for a black woman?” — she’s got the talent. Dang.