 He attributes a defining moment in his career to the short film "Five Deep Breaths" (2003) directed by Seith Mann.With Hector in the lead role, "Five Deep Breaths" was an Official Selection of the Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, and IFP Film Festivals; it went on to accumulate 16 awards.From 2004 to 2008, Hector played Marlo Stanfield on the HBO television drama "The Wire", the young, ambitious, intelligent and extremely ruthless head of the eponymous Stanfield Organization in the Baltimore drug trade.