Michael K. Williams | ||
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Date of birth November 22, 1966 | ||
Place of birth Brooklyn, New York City, New York | ||
Date of death September 6, 2021 | ||
Place of death Brooklyn, New York City, New York | ||
IMDb profile |
Michael Kenneth Williams was an actor who played five different characters on Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Williams had starring roles as Omar Little on the TV series The Wire (with John Doman, Frankie Faison, Wendell Pierce, Lance Reddick, Andre Royo, Sonja Sohn, Jim True-Frost, Seth Gilliam, Reg E. Cathey, and Glynn Turman), Albert "Chalky" White on Boardwalk Empire (with Michael Pitt, Michael Shannon, Vincent Piazza, Paz de la Huerta, Paul Sparks, Dabney Coleman, and Bobby Cannavale), and Montrose Freeman on Lovecraft Country (with Aunjanue Ellis and Courtney B. Vance). He appears as Eli Bernard in Breaking (with John Boyega, Nicole Beharie, Selenis Leyva, and Jeffrey Donovan). He also had a recurring role as Dr. Marshall Kane on the sitcom Community, where he also appears in the Law & Order parody episode "Basic Lupine Urology" (with Chevy Chase and Leslie Hendrix).
Williams was found dead in his Brooklyn, New York, apartment on September 6, 2021. He was 54 years old.
Appearances[]
Law & Order
- Shadow (1997) as Delmore Walton
- A Losing Season (2001) as Marcus Cole
- Great Satan (2009) as Charles Cole
Law & Order: SVU
- Escape (2003) as "Double-D" Gamble
- Underbelly (2006) as John Victor Bodine