Michael Kenneth Williams

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

Born: Brooklyn, New York, USA, 1966-11-22

Died: 2021-09-06

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1996	Bullet	High Top	62
2	1999	Bringing Out the Dead	Drug Dealer	66
3	1999	Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99	(segment "Secret")	75
4	2000	Broke Even	Kenny	28
5	2004	Barbershops Uncut: East Coast	Self	0
6	2004	Doing Hard Time	Curtis Craig aka: Durty Curt From Detroit	52
7	2005	Lackawanna Blues	Jimmy	64
8	2005	Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-12	James	69
9	2006	Mercenary for Justice	Samuel Kay	44
10	2006	Killa Season	Mike	45
11	2007	I Think I Love My Wife	Teddy	54
12	2007	Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22	Sgt. James	64
13	2007	Gone Baby Gone	Devin	73
14	2007	Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-22	James	78
15	2007	The Wire Odyssey	Self	66
16	2007	The Wire: The Last Word	Self	15
17	2008	The Incredible Hulk	Harlem Bystander	62
18	2008	Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club	Tone	49
19	2008	Miracle at St. Anna	Tucker	61
20	2009	Wonderful World	Ibu	53
21	2009	Tell-Tale	Acherton	54
22	2009	A Day in the Life	Killer Mike	59
23	2009	The Road	The Thief	70
24	2010	Brooklyn's Finest	Red	63
25	2010	Life During Wartime	Allen	60
26	2011	The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll	Sonnyboy	54
27	2011	The Cookout 2	Cable Guy Mike	38
28	2012	The Wire: The Musical	Omar Little	50
29	2012	You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You	Ad	46
30	2012	Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 23-33	Sgt. James	58
31	2013	LUV	Detective Holloway	58
32	2013	Snitch	Malik	61
33	2013	Picasso Baby	Self	90
34	2013	Jim Norton: American Degenerate	Himself	61
35	2013	They Die by Dawn	Nat Love	35
36	2013	12 Years a Slave	Robert	79
37	2013	The Devil Goes Down	The Devil	0
38	2014	That Awkward Moment	Omar Little	61
39	2014	RoboCop	Jack Lewis	59
40	2014	The Purge: Anarchy	Carmelo	66
41	2014	Time Out of Mind	Mike	56
42	2014	Kill the Messenger	Ricky Ross	66
43	2014	The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire	Self	0
44	2014	Rand University	Narrator	72
45	2014	Inherent Vice	Tariq Khalil	66
46	2014	The Gambler	Neville Baraka	60
47	2015	Bessie	Jack Gee	64
48	2015	Captive	Detective John Chestnut	57
49	2016	Anesthesia	Jeffrey	58
50	2016	Triple 9	Sweet Pea	60
51	2016	Ghostbusters	Agent Hawkins	53
52	2016	The Land	Pops	58
53	2016	When the Bough Breaks	Roland White	59
54	2016	Assassin's Creed	Moussa	54
55	2018	SuperFly	Scatter	68
56	2019	The Public	Jackson	65
57	2019	Rematch	Failure	10
58	2019	The Red Sea Diving Resort	Kabede Bimro	68
59	2019	Motherless Brooklyn	Trumpet Man	67
60	2020	Beastie Boys Story	Self	75
61	2020	Arkansas	Almond	58
62	2020	Critical Thinking	Mr. Roundtree	66
63	2021	Lines		20
64	2021	Body Brokers	Wood	62
65	2022	Breaking	Eli Bernard	65
66	2023	Surrounded	Will Clay	61
67	2024	The Brown Dog	Nobody	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1990	Law & Order	Charles Cole	74
2	1990	Law & Order	Delmore Walton	74
3	1990	Law & Order	Marcus Cole	74
4	1999	The Sopranos	Ray Ray	87
5	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Double-D Gamble	79
6	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	John Victor Bodine	79
7	1999	Third Watch	Cop One	79
8	2000	Wonderland	Washington	100
9	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Ronnie	76
10	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Laurent / Paul	76
11	2002	The Wire	Omar Little	86
12	2004	Boston Legal	Randall Kirk	79
13	2006	Six Degrees	Michael	58
14	2009	The Philanthropist		66
15	2009	Community	Professor Marshall Kane	80
16	2010	Boardwalk Empire	Albert "Chalky" White	80
17	2010	Detroit 1-8-7	Clarence Warrenton	65
18	2012	Finding Your Roots	Self	62
19	2013	VICE	Self - Correspondent	69
20	2014	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	Richard Sackler	79
21	2015	The Spoils Before Dying	Rock Banyon	58
22	2016	Hap and Leonard	Leonard Pine	69
23	2016	Black Market	Self - Host	61
24	2016	The Night Of	Freddy Knight	80
25	2016	Black Market: Dispatches	Himself - Host	0
26	2017	When We Rise	Ken Jones	66
27	2017	Drop the Mic	Self	63
28	2018	La route de la soif	Self	90
29	2019	When They See Us	Bobby McCray	82
30	2019	Tamron Hall	Self - Guest	51
31	2020	Lovecraft Country	Montrose Freeman	72
32	2021	Dark Side of the 90's	Self	70