2. Felicia Pearson
The character of the baby-faced assassin Snoop from The Wire, was loosely based on Pearson’s own background. Growing up on the tough streets of Baltimore, Pearson worked as a drug dealer. When she was 14, she shot and killed another teenager, following an altercation. Jailed at 16 for second degree murder, Pearson served six and a half years for the crime. Soon after her release, she joined the cast of The Wire and the rest is history.
Or not.
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In 2011, she was arrested along with 60 others in a large-scale DEA raid; eerily similar to the kind that happens on the show. She pled guilty the day before her trial was supposed to start and was sentenced to a suspended seven-year prison term.
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