Michael Kenneth Williams

Michael Kenneth Williams

Birthday: 1966-11-22

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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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The Incredible Hulk
The Incredible Hulk

Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: ...

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Gone Baby Gone
Gone Baby Gone

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solvi...

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Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club
Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club

Born into a life of crime, G has just spent 8 years in the pen. Now out on the streets he's back to ...

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A Day in the Life
A Day in the Life

Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz directs and stars in this hip-hop musical about a gangster who gets caught...

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The Road
The Road

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save ...

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Lackawanna Blues
Lackawanna Blues

In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cas...

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Brooklyn's Finest
Brooklyn's Finest

Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within...

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Doing Hard Time
Doing Hard Time

A father's eight year old son is murdered in a gangland shooting. The father gets himself thrown int...

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Tell-Tale
Tell-Tale

A man's recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor's killer before ...

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Killa Season
Killa Season

Flea was a basketball player, happy with his subtle hustle, until a Dominican connect introduced him...

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Wonderful World
Wonderful World

Ben Singer is a failed children's folk singer, a career proofreader, a less-than-extraordinary weeke...

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The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire

A behind the scenes look at the series as a whole, interviews with cast, crew and creators on the wh...

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I Think I Love My Wife
I Think I Love My Wife

Richard Cooper is a married man and father of two who is just plain bored with married life. Not get...

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Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99
Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99

A collection of Madonna's favorite videos from 1993-1999. Contains the 14 videos: Bad Girl, Fever, R...

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Life During Wartime
Life During Wartime

Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn wo...

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12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abdu...

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You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You
You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You

A serial killer is taking down the hip hop industry one rapper at a time and the detectives on the c...

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They Die by Dawn
They Die by Dawn

Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last m...

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Snitch
Snitch

Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for...

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The Purge: Anarchy
The Purge: Anarchy

One night per year, the government sanctions a 12-hour period in which citizens can commit any crime...

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The Wire: The Last Word
The Wire: The Last Word

A documentary exploring the role of the media in relation to the acclaimed series The Wire....

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The Wire Odyssey
The Wire Odyssey

A retrospective documentary of the first four seasons of the acclaimed series The Wire....

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RoboCop
RoboCop

In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot techn...

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Jim Norton: American Degenerate
Jim Norton: American Degenerate

In the follow-up to his first EPIX comedy special Please Be Offended, caustic comedian Jim Norton co...

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Beastie Boys Story
Beastie Boys Story

Here's a little story they're about to tell... Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of the...

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Inherent Vice
Inherent Vice

In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates th...

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Anesthesia
Anesthesia

Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy...

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Kill the Messenger
Kill the Messenger

A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide af...

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The Gambler
The Gambler

Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, ...

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Rand University
Rand University

Randy Moss has long been an enigma known for his brilliance on the football field and his problems o...

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The Cookout 2
The Cookout 2

Basketball coach Ashmokeem kidnaps and blackmails the opposite team's player and his family in order...

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Bessie
Bessie

The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s....

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Captive
Captive

Based on a miraculous true story that drew the attention of the entire nation, is the dramatic, thri...

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Bullet
Bullet

A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison ri...

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Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed

Through a technology that unlocks the genetic memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum...

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Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters

Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear...

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Bringing Out the Dead
Bringing Out the Dead

Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he...

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Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-12
Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-12

Sylvester wakes up in a married woman’s bed, and the husband is on his way home, and they get caught...

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The Land
The Land

Four teenage boys devote their summer to escaping the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, by pursuing a drea...

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The Devil Goes Down
The Devil Goes Down

The Devil challenges a young man to a game of basketball....

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The Wire: The Musical
The Wire: The Musical

Experience America's failing drug war through the magic of song!...

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Triple 9
Triple 9

A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their ...

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When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks

A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is ex...

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Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 23-33
Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 23-33

The long awaited sequel to R. Kelly's "Trapped in the closet" series....

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Miracle at St. Anna
Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black ...

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The Public
The Public

An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati ta...

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Mercenary for Justice
Mercenary for Justice

Mercenary John Seeger is one of the best in the business. John and his crew battle some soldiers on ...

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The Red Sea Diving Resort
The Red Sea Diving Resort

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of ...

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The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

In this film, childhood friends come face to face with the demons of rock and roll (lust, drugs, and...

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Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn

New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solv...

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Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-22
Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-22

Trapped in the Closet is a rap opera by American R&B singer R. Kelly. Written and produced by Kelly,...

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Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22
Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22

The second half of R. Kelly's unfinished hip hop opera...

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SuperFly
SuperFly

Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one...

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Arkansas
Arkansas

Kyle and Swin live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog, whom they've never me...

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Body Brokers
Body Brokers

Utah and his girlfriend Opal, are drug addicts living on the streets in rural Ohio. After getting re...

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Rematch
Rematch

When we found out Klay Thompson used chess to center himself, we knew we wanted to use the Ingmar Be...

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Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking

Based on a true story from 1998, five Latino and Black teenagers from the toughest underserved ghett...

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Picasso Baby
Picasso Baby

Jay Z performs Picasso Baby at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC....

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That Awkward Moment
That Awkward Moment

Best pals Jason and Daniel indulge in casual flings and revel in their carefree, unattached lives. A...

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LUV
LUV

Over the course of one day, a shy 13-year-old forms a bond with his troubled uncle....

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Surrounded
Surrounded

After her stagecoach is ambushed, a woman is tasked with holding a dangerous outlaw captive and mus...

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Time Out of Mind
Time Out of Mind

Evicted from his squat and suddenly alone on the streets, George is a man without a home. Struggling...

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Broke Even
Broke Even

Dot, Lem and Curry, three hapless working-class chums living in the Bronx, have a penchant for gambl...

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Lines
Lines

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes....

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Breaking
Breaking

Desperate for money and running out of options, Marine veteran Brian Brown-Easley holds several peop...

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Barbershops Uncut: East Coast
Barbershops Uncut: East Coast

A raw and uncensored look at what really goes down in urban barbershops....

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The Brown Dog
The Brown Dog

Night after night, a watchman clocks into his lonely booth and spends hours composing endless securi...

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MugShot
MugShot

A white guy wakes up in a deserted building in Harlem with no money, ID, and no memory of how he got...

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The Bondage
The Bondage

An O.C. youth escapes an abusive home only to find himself entangled in the California Juvenile Just...

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Fame and Fentanyl
Fame and Fentanyl

"Fame and Fentanyl,” a new gripping two-hour documentary special, exposes the devastating impact of ...

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