Michael Kenneth Williams

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 100

Gender Male

Birthday November 22, 1966

Day of Death September 6, 2021 (54 years old)

Place of Birth Brooklyn, New York, USA

Also Known As

Michael K. Williams
마이클 K. 윌리엄스
مایکل کنت ویلیامز

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Michael Kenneth Williams

Biography

Michael Kenneth Williams (November 22, 1966 – September 6, 2021) was an American actor. He played Omar Little on the HBO drama series The Wire from 2002 to 2008 and Albert "Chalky" White on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire from 2010 to 2014. Williams was raised in the Vanderveer Projects in East Flatbush, Brooklyn and attended George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School. Later, Williams enrolled at the National Black Theatre in New York City.

Known For

Acting

2024

as Nobody

2023

as Will Clay

2022

as Eli Bernard

2021		Dark Side of the 90's (10 episodes) as Self
2021		Body Brokers as Wood
2021		Lines

2020		Critical Thinking as Mr. Roundtree
2020		Lovecraft Country (10 episodes) as Montrose Freeman
2020		Arkansas as Almond
2020		Beastie Boys Story as Self

2019		Motherless Brooklyn as Trumpet Man
2019		Tamron Hall (1 episode) as Self - Guest
2019		The Red Sea Diving Resort as Kabede Bimro
2019		When They See Us (4 episodes) as Bobby McCray
2019		Rematch as Failure
2019		The Public as Jackson

2018		SuperFly as Scatter
2018		La route de la soif (2 episodes) as Self

2017		Drop the Mic (1 episode) as Self
2017		When We Rise (4 episodes) as Ken Jones

2016		Assassin's Creed as Moussa
2016		When the Bough Breaks as Roland White
2016		Black Market: Dispatches (10 episodes) as Himself - Host
2016		The Land as Pops
2016		Ghostbusters as Agent Hawkins
2016		The Night Of (6 episodes) as Freddy Knight
2016		Black Market (12 episodes) as Self - Host
2016		Hap and Leonard (18 episodes) as Leonard Pine
2016		Triple 9 as Sweet Pea
2016		Anesthesia as Jeffrey

2015		Captive as Detective John Chestnut
2015		The Spoils Before Dying (6 episodes) as Rock Banyon
2015		Bessie as Jack Gee

2014		The Gambler as Neville Baraka
2014		Inherent Vice as Tariq Khalil
2014		Rand University as Narrator
2014		The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire as Self
2014		Kill the Messenger as Ricky Ross
2014		Time Out of Mind as Mike
2014		The Purge: Anarchy as Carmelo
2014		Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (1 episode) as Richard Sackler
2014		RoboCop as Jack Lewis
2014		That Awkward Moment as Omar Little

2013		The Devil Goes Down as The Devil
2013		12 Years a Slave as Robert
2013		They Die by Dawn as Nat Love
2013		Jim Norton: American Degenerate as Himself
2013		Picasso Baby as Self
2013		VICE (1 episode) as Self - Correspondent
2013		Snitch as Malik
2013		LUV as Detective Holloway

2012		Trapped In The Closet: Chapters 1-33 as James
2012		Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 23-33 as Sgt. James
2012		You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You as Ad
2012		The Wire: The Musical as Omar Little
2012		Finding Your Roots (1 episode) as Self

2011		The Cookout 2 as Cable Guy Mike
2011		The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll as Sonnyboy

2010		Detroit 1-8-7 (1 episode) as Clarence Warrenton
2010		Boardwalk Empire (56 episodes) as Albert "Chalky" White
2010		Life During Wartime as Allen
2010		Brooklyn's Finest as Red

2009		The Road as The Thief
2009		Community (3 episodes) as Professor Marshall Kane
2009		A Day in the Life as Killer Mike
2009		The Philanthropist (8 episodes)
2009		Tell-Tale as Acherton
2009		Wonderful World as Ibu

2008		Miracle at St. Anna as Tucker
2008		Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club as Tone
2008		The Incredible Hulk as Harlem Bystander

2007		The Wire: The Last Word as Self
2007		The Wire Odyssey as Self
2007		Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-22 as James
2007		Gone Baby Gone as Devin
2007		Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22 as Sgt. James
2007		I Think I Love My Wife as Teddy

2006		Six Degrees (1 episode) as Michael
2006		Killa Season as Mike
2006		Mercenary for Justice as Samuel Kay

2005		Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-12 as James
2005		Lackawanna Blues as Jimmy

2004		Doing Hard Time as Curtis Craig aka: Durty Curt From Detroit
2004		Boston Legal (1 episode) as Randall Kirk
2004		Barbershops Uncut: East Coast as Self

2002

(50 episodes) as Omar Little

2000		CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (1 episode) as Laurent / Paul (1 episode) as Ronnie
2000		Wonderland (1 episode) as Washington
2000		Broke Even as Kenny

1999		Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 as (segment "Secret")
1999		Bringing Out the Dead as Drug Dealer
1999		Third Watch (1 episode) as Cop One
1999		Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 episode) as John Victor Bodine (1 episode) as Double-D Gamble
1999		The Sopranos (1 episode) as Ray Ray

1996		MugShot as Rumor
1996		Bullet as High Top

1990

(1 episode) as Marcus Cole (1 episode) as Delmore Walton (1 episode) as Charles Cole

Production

2017

… Executive Producer

2016

(12 episodes) … Executive Producer

2014

… Executive Producer

2011

… Executive Producer

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