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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1966-11-22 (58 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York, USA

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

The Brown Dog as Nobody

2023

Surrounded as Will Clay

2022

Breaking as Eli Bernard

2021

Body Brokers as Wood

2020

Arkansas as Almond
Critical Thinking as Mr. Roundtree
Lovecraft Country as Montrose Freeman

2019

The Public as Jackson
Motherless Brooklyn as Trumpet Man
Rematch as Failure
Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
When They See Us as Bobby McCray

2018

SuperFly as Scatter

2017

When We Rise as Ken Jones
Drop the Mic as Self

2016

Anesthesia as Jeffrey
Ghostbusters as Agent Hawkins
The Land as Pops
Triple 9 as Sweet Pea
When the Bough Breaks as Roland White
Hap and Leonard as Leonard Pine
Black Market as Self - Host
Black Market: Dispatches as Himself - Host
The Night Of as Freddy Knight

2015

Bessie as Jack Gee
Captive as Detective John Chestnut

2014

RoboCop as Jack Lewis
Inherent Vice as Tariq Khalil
Kill the Messenger as Ricky Ross
The Gambler as Neville Baraka
Rand University as Narrator
That Awkward Moment as Omar Little

2013

They Die by Dawn as Nat Love
Snitch as Malik
The Devil Goes Down as The Devil
Picasso Baby as Self
LUV as Detective Holloway
VICE as Self - Correspondent

2012

The Wire: The Musical as Omar Little

2011

The Cookout 2 as Cable Guy Mike

2010

Detroit 1-8-7 as Clarence Warrenton
Boardwalk Empire as Albert "Chalky" White

2009

A Day in the Life as Killer Mike
The Road as The Thief
Tell-Tale as Acherton
Community as Professor Marshall Kane

2008

The Incredible Hulk as Harlem Bystander

2007

2006

Killa Season as Mike
Mercenary for Justice as Samuel Kay
Six Degrees as Michael

2005

2004

Doing Hard Time as Curtis Craig aka: Durty Curt From Detroit
Boston Legal as Randall Kirk

2002

The Wire as Omar Little

2000

Broke Even as Kenny
Wonderland as Washington

1999

Bringing Out the Dead as Drug Dealer
The Sopranos as Ray Ray
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as John Victor Bodine
Third Watch as Cop One

1996

Bullet as High Top

1990

Law & Order as Charles Cole
Law & Order as Delmore Walton
Law & Order as Marcus Cole

Production

2017

Shelter as Executive Producer

2016

Black Market as Executive Producer

2014

Bro as Executive Producer

2011

Snow on tha Bluff as Executive Producer