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It's time to the re-up with the third installment of our extended Q&As with Baltimore-area actors who appear on The Wire, featured after the jump. Be sure to check back tomorrow for the conclusion of this feature with our mega-interview with series co-creator David Simon, and read the other Q&As from this week here and here.

JAY LANDSMAN

Police officer Jay Landsman plays Lt Dennis Mello, but there is a character on The Wire played by Delaney Williams who is named after him who he is also partially the inspiration for.

Landsman is currently an active police officer in Baltimore County.

How did you get cast on the show?

I go back a lot of years with David Simon. He wrote a book called Homicide and I was one of the characters.

It was about our squad when I was with the Baltimore City homicide unit.

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Then I was also involved with the incidents that inspired The Wire. One of the characters on the show is named Jay Landsman. When I read for the part they