The Wire's ring of authenticity grows by the day. Felicia Pearson, the actress who plays Snoop in 3 and 4, the female psychopath with a southern accent, has published her autobiography, called Grace after Midnight. Felicia entered this world as the 3lbs baby of an East Baltimore crack addict. Despite being small she became a full-time drug dealer, killing a woman in self-defence at age fifteen. After her release from Jessup State Penitentiary, she resumed the trade, until two senior dealers called Uncle and Father, were respectively killed and imprisoned for life. Her acting career began after she was talent spotted in a Baltimore bar by a member of the Wire's crew. Its a very heterodox cast alright since the main character is an Irish Old Etonian, while the top gangster Stringer Bell hales from Hackney. Heaven knows about the extras!