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.
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Acting History
2025
Fame and Fentanyl as Self (archive footage)
2024The Brown Dog as Nobody
2023Surrounded as Will Clay
2022Breaking as Eli Bernard
2021Dark Side of the 90's as Self
2021Body Brokers as Wood
2021Lines
2020Critical Thinking as Mr. Roundtree
2020Lovecraft Country as Montrose Freeman
2020Arkansas as Almond
2020Beastie Boys Story as Self
2019Motherless Brooklyn as Trumpet Man
2019Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
2019The Red Sea Diving Resort as Kabede Bimro
2019When They See Us as Bobby McCray
2019Rematch as Failure
2019The Public as Jackson
2018SuperFly as Scatter
2018La route de la soif as Self
2017Drop the Mic as Self
2017When We Rise as Ken Jones
2016Assassin's Creed as Moussa
2016When the Bough Breaks as Roland White
2016Black Market: Dispatches as Himself - Host
2016The Land as Pops
2016Ghostbusters as Agent Hawkins
2016The Night Of as Freddy Knight
2016The Night Of as Freddy
2016Black Market as Self - Host
2016Hap and Leonard as Leonard Pine
2016Triple 9 as Sweet Pea
2016Anesthesia as Jeffrey
2015Captive as Detective John Chestnut
2015The Spoils Before Dying as Rock Banyon
2015Bessie as Jack Gee
2014The Gambler as Neville Baraka
2014Inherent Vice as Tariq Khalil
2014Rand University as Narrator
2014The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire as Self
2014Kill the Messenger as Ricky Ross
2014Time Out of Mind as Mike
2014The Purge: Anarchy as Carmelo
2014Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Richard Sackler
2014RoboCop as Jack Lewis
2014That Awkward Moment as Omar Little
2013The Devil Goes Down as The Devil
201312 Years a Slave as Robert
2013They Die by Dawn as Nat Love
2013Jim Norton: American Degenerate as Himself
2013Picasso Baby as Self
2013VICE as Self - Correspondent
2013Snitch as Malik
2013LUV as Detective Holloway
2012Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 23-33 as Sgt. James
2012You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You as Ad
2012The Wire: The Musical as Omar Little
2012Finding Your Roots as Self
2011The Cookout 2 as Cable Guy Mike
2011The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll as Sonnyboy
2010Detroit 1-8-7 as Clarence Warrenton
2010Boardwalk Empire as Albert 'Chalky' White
2010Life During Wartime as Allen
2010Brooklyn's Finest as Red
2009The Road as The Thief
2009Community as Professor Marshall Kane
2009A Day in the Life as Killer Mike
2009The Philanthropist
2009Tell-Tale as Acherton
2009Wonderful World as Ibu
2008Miracle at St. Anna as Tucker
2008Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club as Tone
2008The Incredible Hulk as Harlem Bystander
2007The Wire: The Last Word as Self
2007The Wire Odyssey as Self
2007Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-22 as James
2007Gone Baby Gone as Devin
2007Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22 as Sgt. James
2007I Think I Love My Wife as Teddy
2006Six Degrees as Michael
2006Killa Season as Mike
2006Mercenary for Justice as Samuel Kay
2006The Bondage as Willie
2005Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-12 as James
2005Lackawanna Blues as Jimmy
2004Doing Hard Time as Curtis Craig aka: Durty Curt From Detroit
2004Boston Legal as Randall Kirk
2004Barbershops Uncut: East Coast as Self
2002The Wire as Omar Little
2001Alias as Roberts
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Ronnie
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Laurent / Paul
2000Broke Even as Kenny
1999Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 as (segment "Secret")
1999Bringing Out the Dead as Drug Dealer
1999Third Watch as Cop One
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Double-D Gamble
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as John Victor Bodine
1999The Sopranos as Ray Ray
1996MugShot as Rumor
1996Bullet as High Top
1990Law & Order as Charles Cole
1990Law & Order as Delmore Walton
1990Law & Order as Marcus Cole