---
name: "Jim True-Frost"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jim-true-frost"
fi1m_id: "jim-true-frost"
imdb_id: "nm0874082"
tmdb_id: 108717
wikidata_id: "Q1689233"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "31 July 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-24T04:01:42.460237+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jim True-Frost

## Identity

Jim True-Frost

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jim-true-frost
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jim-true-frost
- **IMDb ID:** nm0874082
- **TMDB ID:** 108717
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1689233
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_True-Frost, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1689233, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874082/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/108717

Actor. Born 31 July 1966 in Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S..

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 31 July 1966, Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.
- **Active:** 1992–2002
- **Also known as:** Jim True
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 76 (2), 2000s 90 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 81 to 77 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 2, Crime 1, Fantasy 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $21m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_True-Frost, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1689233, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874082/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/108717

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Hudsucker Proxy*](https://film.one/film/the-hudsucker-proxy.md) (78), [*Singles*](https://film.one/film/singles.md) (74)

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## Biography

Jim True-Frost (born Jim True) is an American actor known for stage, television and film work. He has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago since 1989, having previously performed with Remains Theater. He graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, and received a Joseph Jefferson Award for his stage work.

True-Frost is best known for portraying Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski across all five seasons of the HBO series *The Wire* (2002–2008). His film credits include *Singles* (1992), *The Hudsucker Proxy* (1994) as Buzz, and *Affliction* (1997). He has also appeared in series such as *Treme*, *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* and *Manifest*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Wire* (2002), Fi1m 90, as Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-wire.md)
- *The Hudsucker Proxy* (1994), Fi1m 78, as Buzz — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hudsucker-proxy.md)
- *Singles* (1992), Fi1m 74, as David Bailey — [page](https://film.one/film/singles.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Doc* (2025), series, as Bradley Hahn
- *The Mental State* (2022), as Pastor Shane
- *Drone* (2022), Actor
- *Saint Frances* (2020), as Isaac
- *Manifest* (2018), series, as Rector Dave Hynes
- *Yellowstone* (2018), series, as Father McGreggor
- *Pickup* (2016), as Ben
- *Cold* (2016), series, as Nathan
- *Z: The Beginning of Everything* (2015), series, as Max Perkins
- *Z: The Beginning of Everything* (2015), as Max Perkins
- *Blindspot* (2015), series, as John Saya
- *American Odyssey* (2015), series, as Ron Ballard
- *The Blacklist* (2013), series, as Gordon Kemp — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-blacklist.md)
- *Elementary* (2012), series, as Anson Samuels
- *Blue Bloods* (2010), series, as Lyle Greene
- *Treme* (2010), series, as James Woodrow — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/treme.md)
- *The Good Wife* (2009), series, as Seth Kleinberg — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-wife.md)
- *Fringe* (2008), series, as Ted Pratchett — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/fringe.md)
- *Diminished Capacity* (2008), as Donnie Prince
- *Sympathetic Details* (2008), as Rogers
- *Slippery Slope* (2006), as Hugh Winston
- *Winter Passing* (2006), as Doctor
- *Medium* (2005), series, as Stephen Campbell
- *Off the Map* (2003), as William Gibbs
- *CSI: Miami* (2002), series, as Dave Keppling
- *The Wire* (2002), series, as Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-wire.md)
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Jay Lippman, David Novak
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Thomas Banks, Mitch Kaplan, Lawrence Hendricks Jr.
- *Affliction* (1998), as Jack Hewitt
- *Far Harbor* (1996), as Ryland
- *Early Edition* (1996), series, as Sam
- *Normal Life* (1996), as Mike Anderson
- *W.E.I.R.D. World* (1995), as Noah Lane
- *The Hudsucker Proxy* (1994), as Buzz — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hudsucker-proxy.md)
- *Two Over Easy* (1994), as Jesse
- *Homicide: Life on the Street* (1993), series, as George Buxton — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/tv/homicide-life-on-the-street.md)
- *Singles* (1992), as David Bailey — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/singles.md)
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Bruce Elwin, Dennis Langdon / Phil Newsom — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *Fat Man and Little Boy* (1989), as Donald Hornig
- *Crime Story* (1986), series, as JoJo Sweeney (as Jim True)
- *Monsters of God*, as Mayor Walton Green

## Gallery

- ![From the April 12, 2010 presentation on "The Wire" at Charles Ogletree's seminar at Harvard University Law School. Top, from left: Donnie Andrews (the inspirati (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/84331/gallery-77abfc4b2386.jpg) From the April 12, 2010 presentation on "The Wire" at Charles Ogletree's seminar at Harvard University Law School. Top, from left: Donnie Andrews (the inspirati (2011) — Tim Pierce from Berlin, MA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/%22The_Wire%22_cast_%285662495475%29.jpg/1280px-%22The_Wire%22_cast_%285662495475%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![From the April 12, 2010 presentation on "The Wire" at Charles Ogletree's seminar at Harvard University Law School. Top, from left: Donnie Andrews (the inspirati (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/84331/gallery-c21e66cc46e1.jpg) From the April 12, 2010 presentation on "The Wire" at Charles Ogletree's seminar at Harvard University Law School. Top, from left: Donnie Andrews (the inspirati (2011) — Tim Pierce, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Cast_of_The_Wire_-_Andrews_Boyd_True-Frost_Sohn_Hector_Royo.jpg/1280px-Cast_of_The_Wire_-_Andrews_Boyd_True-Frost_Sohn_Hector_Royo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![From the April 12, 2010 presentation on "The Wire" at Charles Ogletree's seminar at Harvard University Law School. Top, from left: Donnie Andrews (the inspirati (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/84331/gallery-13d388630a62.jpg) From the April 12, 2010 presentation on "The Wire" at Charles Ogletree's seminar at Harvard University Law School. Top, from left: Donnie Andrews (the inspirati (2011) — Tim Pierce, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Cast_of_The_Wire_-_Andrews_Boyd_True-Frost_Sohn_Hector_Royo_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![From the April 12, 2010 presentation on "The Wire" at Charles Ogletree's seminar at Harvard University Law School. From left: Jim True-Frost, Andre Royo, Sonja  (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/84331/gallery-5838617b34f9.jpg) From the April 12, 2010 presentation on "The Wire" at Charles Ogletree's seminar at Harvard University Law School. From left: Jim True-Frost, Andre Royo, Sonja  (2011) — Tim Pierce, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Cast_of_The_Wire_-_True-Frost_Royo_Sohn_Hector.jpg/1280px-Cast_of_The_Wire_-_True-Frost_Royo_Sohn_Hector.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![From the April 12, 2010 presentation on "The Wire" at Charles Ogletree's seminar at Harvard University Law School. (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/84331/gallery-7a535436dd83.jpg) From the April 12, 2010 presentation on "The Wire" at Charles Ogletree's seminar at Harvard University Law School. (2011) — Tim Pierce, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Jim_True-Frost_Harvard_University_3.jpg/1280px-Jim_True-Frost_Harvard_University_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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