The Wire” was broadcast on HBO

 During the five seasons that “The Wire” was broadcast on HBO, co-creators David Simon and Ed Burns filled it with more complicated and nuanced characters than a Russian novel.

The show introduced an international television audience to dozens of actors at a relatively early stage of their careers. Some had never acted before they showed up on the Baltimore set.

“This was the hardest show I’ve ever done,” said Pat Moran, who handled casting duties for the show with the New York-based casting director Alexa L. Fogel.

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“I needed kids and people that were from the demographic that the show was about,” Moran said. " I didn’t need kids with braces on their teeth that sell Jell-O. I needed the real deal.”

In the 20 years since the show debuted, most of the actors portraying main characters are still working steadily. Several have gone on to stellar careers. A few, tragically, have died.

Below is a round-up of what some of the key figures are doing now based on interviews and online biographies.