Michael Kenneth Williams
- Highest Rated: 12 Years a Slave (2013)
- Lowest Rated: The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2011)
- Birthday: Jun 26, 1966
- Birthplace: Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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A native of Brooklyn, NY, actor Michael Kenneth Williams fell into a typecast with repeated portrayals of hoods, toughs, and career criminals from project to project. Williams entered acting courtesy of professional dancing, which he began at the age of 22; in that arena, his unique and individualistic moves caught the attention of producers and landed him in a string of music videos. Williams subsequently decided to pursue classical training as an actor, which he received via participation in the National Black Theater Company and New York's La' MaMA Theatre Company, though his breakthrough arrived at the hands of the late gangster rapper Tupac Shakur, who discovered Williams and cast him as his own little brother in the Julien Temple-directed urban crime drama Bullet (1995). Work for Martin Scorsese followed, with a minor role in the grueling psychodrama Bringing Out the Dead (1999), though Williams scored much broader acclaim and exposure via participation in HBO's popular crime drama series The Wire, where he played stick-up man Omar Little for multiple seasons. Williams then moved back into features with a supporting turn as Devin in actor-turned-director Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone (2007), then starred opposite Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron in director John Hillcoat's post-apocalyptic thriller The Road (2008). ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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Highest Rated Movies
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12 Years a Slave
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Gone Baby Gone
94% -
Bessie
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Filmography
Movies
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Box
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Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motherless Brooklyn | Actor | — | 2019 | |
| 65% | The Public | Actor | — | 2019 |
| 32% | The Red Sea Diving Resort | Kabede Bimro | — | 2019 |
| 49% | Superfly | Scatter | — | 2018 |
| 18% | Assassin's Creed | Moussa | $54.7M | 2016 |
| 13% | When the Bough Breaks | Roland White | $29.8M | 2016 |
| 68% | The Land | Pops | $18.5K | 2016 |
| 74% | Ghostbusters | Agent Hawkins | $128.4M | 2016 |
| 53% | Triple 9 | Sweet Pea | — | 2016 |
| 26% | Anesthesia | Jeffrey | $22.9K | 2016 |
| 27% | Captive | Det. John Chestnut | $2M | 2015 |
| 73% | Inherent Vice | Tariq Khalil | $6.2M | 2015 |
| 89% | Bessie | Jack | — | 2015 |
| 44% | The Gambler | Neville Baraka | $18.9M | 2014 |
| 77% | Kill the Messenger | Ricky Ross | $2.5M | 2014 |
| 56% | The Purge: Anarchy | Carmelo | — | 2014 |
| 49% | RoboCop | Jack Lewis | $50.7M | 2014 |
| 95% | 12 Years a Slave | Robert | $50.7M | 2013 |
| Jim Norton: American Degenerate | Actor | — | 2013 | |
| 57% | Snitch | Malik | $43M | 2013 |
| 34% | LUV | Detective Holloway | $0.2M | 2013 |
| You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Kills You | A.D. | — | 2012 | |
| 0% | The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll | Sonnyboy | — | 2011 |
| 69% | Life During Wartime | Allen | $0.3M | 2010 |
| Tell-Tale (Tell Tale) | Acherton | — | 2010 | |
| 44% | Brooklyn's Finest | Red | $26.8M | 2010 |
| 42% | Wonderful World | Ibou | — | 2010 |
| A Kiss of Chaos | Demetrius | — | 2010 | |
| 73% | The Road | Thief | $8.1M | 2009 |
| Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club | Tone | — | 2008 | |
| 94% | Gone Baby Gone | Devin | $20.4M | 2007 |
| Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22 | Actor | — | 2007 | |
| 19% | I Think I Love My Wife | Teddy | $12.5M | 2007 |
| The Bondage | Actor | — | 2006 | |
| Mercenary for Justice | Samuel | — | 2006 | |
| 75% | Lackawanna Blues | Jimmy Lee | — | 2005 |
| Doing Hard Time | Curtis Craig | — | 2004 | |
| 72% | Bringing Out the Dead | Drug Dealer | — | 1999 |
| 87% | The Blair Witch Project | Actor | — | 1999 |
| Bullet | High Top | — | 1996 | |
| Mugshot | Actor | — | 1996 |
TV
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|
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Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2012
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Appearing |
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| 98% |
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
2014
|
Appearing |
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| 96% |
When They See Us
2019
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Bobby McCray |
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Drop the Mic
2017
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Guest |
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| 64% |
The Guest Book
2017-2018
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Vice
2013-2018
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Reporter |
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| 94% |
Hap & Leonard
2016-2018
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Leonard Pine |
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The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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Guest |
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Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
|
Guest |
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| 82% |
When We Rise
2016-2017
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Ken Jones |
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| 86% |
F Is for Family
2015
|
Voice |
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| 50% |
Any Given Wednesday With Bill Simmons
2016
|
Guest |
|
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The Daily Show With Trevor Noah
2015
|
Guest |
|
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| 94% |
The Night Of
2016
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Freddy |
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| 100% |
The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore
2015-2016
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Panelist |
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Charlie Rose
2013-2017
|
Guest |
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The Wendy Williams Show
2008
|
Guest |
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| 74% |
The Spoils Before Dying
2014
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Rock Banyon |
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| 81% |
The Spoils of Babylon
2014-2015
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Rock Banyon |
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| 92% |
Boardwalk Empire
2010-2014
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Chalky White |
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| 44% |
High School USA!
2013
|
Voice |
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| 88% |
Community
2009-2015
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Professor Kane |
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| 83% |
Detroit 1-8-7
2010-2011
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Clarence Warrenton |
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-2015
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Laurent/Paul |
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The Philanthropist
2009
|
Dax Vahagn |
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CSI: NY
2004-2013
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Reggie Dupar |
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| 96% |
The Wire
2002-2008
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Omar Little Omar |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
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Victor Dodine |
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Six Degrees
2006-2007
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Michael |
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| 89% |
Alias
2001-2006
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Roberts |
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| 87% |
Boston Legal
2004-2008
|
Randall Kirk |
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Law & Order
1990-2010
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Marcus Cole Delmore Walton |
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