We Own This City character guide: Who is each actor in the HBO series?

HBO’s new miniseries, We Own This City, premieres tonight. The crime drama is based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Baltimore Sun investigative journalist Justin Fenton.

The show was developed and written by David Simon and George Pelecanos, and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. Around 20 years ago HBO developed The Wire, which was a fictional story that also followed the Baltimore Police Department.

Pelecanos and Simon originally worked together on the 2002 show and teamed up again for We Own This City. A number of main cast members and guest stars appearing on the new series are The Wire alums. They include Jamie Hector, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Domenick Lombardozzi, Tray Chaney, Delaney Williams, Jermaine Crawford, Anwan Glover, Chris Clanton, Nathan Corbett, Maria Broom, Susan Rome, and Michael Salconi.

We Own This City chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), where corruption, policies of drug prohibition, and mass incarceration were championed at the expense of actual police work.

There’s a lot of great stars who round out the cast. So who can you expect to see in the new HBO series?

We Own This City cast

Jon Bernthal

Jon Bernthal plays Sgt. Wayne Jenkins of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), the central figure in the sprawling federal corruption case. The plainclothes unit went completely rogue and began hunting and robbing citizens and drug dealers. A relentless drug war and mass incarceration in Baltimore spun out of control.

Wunmi Mosaku

Wunmi Mosaku portrays Nicole Steele, an attorney assigned to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice which was investigating policing practices in Baltimore prior to the GTTF criminal investigation. The attorney focuses on trying to create reform and her work centers around the systemic reasons police corruption and bad behavior are excused by Baltimore city prosecutors, judges, and the police department itself.

Jamie Hector

Sean M. Suiter will be played by actor Jamie Hector. He is a Baltimore City Homicide detective who was caught up in the GTTF case and called to testify before a federal grand jury. Suiter finds he can’t outrun his past.

McKinley Belcher III

McKinley Belcher III plays Momodu “G Money” Gondo, an 11-year BPD veteran and member of the GTTF. He becomes implicated in robberies, overtime fraud, and other corrupt acts. He was involved in protecting a heroin operation.

Darrell Britt-Gibson

Darrell Britt-Gibson portrays Jemell Rayam, one of the most brazen offenders caught up in the GTTF probe. Rayam committed a number of corruption acts including racketeering, extortion, overtime fraud, robberies, and unlawful detainments. He also entered residences without a warrant, and was involved in three shootings that resulted in one death. Over the years, he was targeted in multiple investigations by the Internal Affairs Department but suffered few consequences.

Josh Charles

Josh Charles as Daniel Hersl, a cocky, swaggering cop. Baltimore residents know him for his casual brutality and he received multiple citizen complaints. Hersl was effectively banned from the Eastern District before his move to the GTTF.

Dagmara Domińczyk

Dagmara Domińczyk plays Erika Jensen, a New York native who conducted the federal investigation into the corrupt GTTF officers along with Task Force Officer John Sieracki.

Rob Brown

Rob Brown as Maurice Ward, another officer on the GTTF. He participated in robberies, thefts, and illegal activities in the unit. Though he was bothered by his participation. When he was eventually charged due to the federal investigation, he was among the first to cooperate with prosecutors.

Don Harvey

Don Harvey portrays John Sieracki, a second-generation city cop assigned to the public corruption task force and working out of the FBI’s office in Woodlawn. Sieracki provided the federal investigation key knowledge of the BPD and access to its databases.

David Corenswet

David McDougall is played by actor David Corenswet. McDougall is a veteran investigator with the Harford County Narcotics Task Force. McDougall and his colleague Detective Scott Kilpatrick began the casework on drug overdoses that set the GTTF probe in motion.

Larry Mitchell

Larry Mitchell as Scott Kilpatrick, a veteran investigator with the Baltimore County Narcotics Task Force. Kilpatrick McDougall began the casework on drug overdoses that set the GTTF probe in motion.

Ian Duff

Ian Duff as Ahmed Jackson, a former D.O.J. trial attorney who is transferred to the Office of Civil Rights. He’s newly assigned to Nicole Steele’s team and helps her to investigate the systemic policing issues in Baltimore.

Delaney Williams

Kevin Davis, played by actor Delaney Williams, will find himself between a rock and several hard places, unable to reform the BPD, and please City Hall, community leaders, the police union, and his rank and file officers.

Lucas Van Engen

Lucas Van Engen as Leo Wise, a veteran federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Baltimore and the lead prosecutor assigned to the GTTF case.

We Own This City guest stars

• Treat Williams
• Gabrielle Carteris
• Tray Chaney
• Domenick Lombardozzi
• Thaddeus Street
• Jermaine Crawford
• Nathan E. Corbett
• Chris Clanton
• Anwan Glover
• Bobby Brown
• Michael Salconi
• Susan Rome
• Kim Tuvin
• Maria Broom

We Own This City premieres April 25 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max. Episodes will be released weekly on Mondays.