Michael Kenneth Williams
November 22, 1966 (59 years old) in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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
Credits
- 2025 · Fame and Fentanyl as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 · The Brown Dog as Nobody
- 2023 · Surrounded as Will Clay
- 2022 · Breaking as Eli Bernard
- 2021 · Dark Side of the 90's as Self
- 2021 · Body Brokers as Wood
- 2021 · Lines as
- 2020 · Critical Thinking as Mr. Roundtree
- 2020 · Lovecraft Country as Montrose Freeman
- 2020 · Arkansas as Almond
- 2020 · Beastie Boys Story as Self
- 2019 · Motherless Brooklyn as Trumpet Man
- 2019 · Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
- 2019 · The Red Sea Diving Resort as Kabede Bimro
- 2019 · When They See Us as Bobby McCray
- 2019 · Rematch as Failure
- 2019 · The Public as Jackson
- 2018 · SuperFly as Scatter
- 2018 · La route de la soif as Self
- 2017 · Drop the Mic as Self
- 2017 · When We Rise as Ken Jones
- 2016 · Assassin's Creed as Moussa
- 2016 · When the Bough Breaks as Roland White
- 2016 · Black Market: Dispatches as Himself - Host
- 2016 · The Land as Pops
- 2016 · Ghostbusters as Agent Hawkins
- 2016 · The Night Of as Freddy Knight
- 2016 · The Night Of as Freddy
- 2016 · Black Market as Self - Host
- 2016 · Hap and Leonard as Leonard Pine
- 2016 · Triple 9 as Sweet Pea
- 2016 · Anesthesia as Jeffrey
- 2015 · Captive as Detective John Chestnut
- 2015 · Time Out of Mind as Mike
- 2015 · The Spoils Before Dying 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 · The Purge: Anarchy as Carmelo
- 2014 · Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Richard Sackler
- 2014 · RoboCop as Jack Lewis
- 2014 · That Awkward Moment as Omar Little
- 2013 · Lucas Bros. Moving Co. as Satan
- 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 as Self - Correspondent
- 2013 · Snitch as Malik
- 2013 · LUV as Detective Holloway
- 2012 · Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 23-33 as Sgt. James
- 2012 · You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You as Ad