Michael K. Williams

Q: Did Michael K. Williams win any awards?

Yes, Michael K. Williams received several nominations, including for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his role in 'Bessie' and a Critics' Choice Television Award for 'The Night Of.'

Q: What was Michael K. Williams' first film?

Michael K. Williams made his film debut in the 1996 movie 'Bullet,' where he played a supporting role. This marked the beginning of his acting career in film.

Q: What is Michael K. Williams' estimated net worth?

Michael K. Williams' estimated net worth was reported to be around $5 million, reflecting his successful career in television and film.

Q: How many children did Michael K. Williams have?

Michael K. Williams had one son, Elijah Williams, who was born in 1999. He often spoke about the importance of family in his life.

Q: What was a defining characteristic of Michael K. Williams' acting style?

Michael K. Williams was known for his intense and authentic performances, often bringing a depth to his characters that resonated with audiences. His ability to portray vulnerability made him a standout actor.

Q: What was a major milestone in Michael K. Williams' career?

A major milestone in Michael K. Williams' career was his role as Omar Little in 'The Wire,' which became iconic and helped solidify his status as a talented actor in the industry.

Q: What genres did Michael K. Williams typically work in?

Michael K. Williams primarily worked in drama, with a focus on crime and character-driven narratives. His roles often explored complex themes and social issues.

Known for

Assassin’s Creed (2016)

IMDb 5.6 / 10

2016 / Action, Adventure / 115 min

Through unlocked genetic memories that allow him to relive the adventures of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he's a descendant...

12 Years a Slave (2013)

IMDb 8.1 / 10

2013 / Biography, Drama / 134 min

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty...

Name

Michael K. Williams

Height

5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Born

22 November 1966, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Children

1, Elijah Williams

Parents

Boris Williams, Frances Williams

Estimated Net Worth

$5 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	Movie Fame and Fentanyl "Fame and Fentanyl,” a new gripping two-hour documentary special, exposes the devastating impact of fentanyl on our society and culture....	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2024	Movie The Brown Dog Night after night, a watchman clocks into his lonely booth and spends hours composing endless security logs to stay awake,...	Nobody	Not rated
2023	Movie Surrounded After her stagecoach is ambushed, a woman is tasked with holding a dangerous outlaw captive and must survive the day...	Will Clay	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2022	Movie Breaking Desperate for money and running out of options, Marine veteran Brian Brown-Easley holds several people hostage inside a bank, setting...	Eli Bernard	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2021	TV Dark Side of the 90's A deep dive into the decade's untold history, revealing secrets, and prespectives.	Self	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2021	Movie Body Brokers Utah and his girlfriend Opal, are drug addicts living on the streets in rural Ohio. After getting recruited by body...	Wood	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2021	Movie Lines Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.	Unknown character	TMDB 2.0 / 10
2020	Movie Critical Thinking Based on a true story from 1998, five Latino and Black teenagers from the toughest underserved ghetto in Miami fight...	Mr. Roundtree	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2020	TV Lovecraft Country The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to...	Montrose Freeman	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2020	Movie Arkansas Kyle and Swin live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog, whom they've never met. But when...	Almond	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2020	Movie Beastie Boys Story Here's a little story they're about to tell... Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of their band and...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2019	Movie Motherless Brooklyn New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his...	Trumpet Man	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2019	TV Tamron Hall Former news host and journalist Tamron Hall discusses all things topical and engages those she interviews in thorough meaningful and...	Self - Guest	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2019	Movie The Red Sea Diving Resort Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to...	Kabede Bimro	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2019	TV When They See Us Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park.	Bobby McCray	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2019	Movie Rematch When we found out Klay Thompson used chess to center himself, we knew we wanted to use the Ingmar Bergman...	Failure	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2019	Movie The Public An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public...	Jackson	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2018	Movie SuperFly Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip...	Scatter	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2018	TV La route de la soif	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2017	TV Drop the Mic Based on a popular segment on "The Late Late Show With James Corden" and emceed by rapper-actor Method Man and...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2017	TV When We Rise The personal and political struggles, setbacks and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer...	Ken Jones	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2016	Movie Assassin's Creed Through a technology that unlocks the genetic memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he is...	Moussa	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2016	Movie When the Bough Breaks A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting...	Roland White	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2016	TV Black Market: Dispatches In this global series presented by Michael K. Williams, we embed ourselves inside criminal enterprises to see how contraband moves...	Himself - Host	Not rated
2016	Movie The Land Four teenage boys devote their summer to escaping the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, by pursuing a dream life of professional...	Pops	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2016	Movie Ghostbusters Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker...	Agent Hawkins	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2016	TV The Night Of After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and...	Freddy Knight	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2016	TV Black Market In his most personal project to date, Michael K. Williams explores underground economies in America and around the world.	Self - Host	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2016	TV Hap and Leonard A darkly comic swamp noir story of two best friends set in the late 1980s. Based on the novels by...	Leonard Pine	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2016	Movie Triple 9 A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their...	Sweet Pea	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2016	Movie Anesthesia Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.	Jeffrey	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2015	Movie Captive Based on a miraculous true story that drew the attention of the entire nation, is the dramatic, thrilling, and spiritual...	Detective John Chestnut	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2015	Movie Time Out of Mind Evicted from his squat and suddenly alone on the streets, George is a man without a home. Struggling with his...	Mike	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2015	TV The Spoils Before Dying Fictional author-filmmaker, Eric Jonrosh, adapts his epic tale of a pianist-turned-detective investigating a murder in the 1950s underground jazz scene.	Rock Banyon	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2015	Movie Bessie The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.	Jack Gee	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2014	Movie The Gambler Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when...	Neville Baraka	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2014	Movie Inherent Vice In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.	Tariq Khalil	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2014	Movie Rand University Randy Moss has long been an enigma known for his brilliance on the football field and his problems off it....	Narrator	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2014	Movie 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 whole...	Self	Not rated
2014	Movie Kill the Messenger A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he...	Ricky Ross	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2014	Movie The Purge: Anarchy One night per year, the government sanctions a 12-hour period in which citizens can commit any crime they wish --...	Carmelo	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2014	TV Last Week Tonight with John Oliver A half-hour satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events.	Richard Sackler	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2014	Movie RoboCop In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones...	Jack Lewis	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2014	Movie That Awkward Moment Best pals Jason and Daniel indulge in casual flings and revel in their carefree, unattached lives. After learning that the...	Omar Little	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2013	TV Lucas Bros. Moving Co. After their uncle dies and leaves them his old van, the twins start a moving company called Va¢ation Boy$. Their...	Satan	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2013	Movie The Devil Goes Down The Devil challenges a young man to a game of basketball.	The Devil	Not rated
2013	Movie 12 Years a Slave In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold...	Robert	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2013	Movie They Die by Dawn Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last man...	Nat Love	TMDB 2.7 / 10
2013	Movie Jim Norton: American Degenerate In the follow-up to his first EPIX comedy special Please Be Offended, caustic comedian Jim Norton continues to push every...	Himself	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2013	Movie Picasso Baby Jay Z performs Picasso Baby at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2013	TV VICE A documentary news series with a taboo-breaking team who deliver incredible news stories from around the world.	Self - Correspondent	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2013	Movie Snitch Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust...	Malik	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2013	Movie LUV Over the course of one day, a shy 13-year-old forms a bond with his troubled uncle.	Detective Holloway	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2012	Movie Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-33 A one-night stand sets off a chain of events, gradually revealing a greater web of lies, affairs and deceit—a multitude...	Sgt. James	Not rated
2012	Movie Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 23-33 The long awaited sequel to R. Kelly's "Trapped in the closet" series.	Sgt. James	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2012	Movie 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...	Ad	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2012	Movie The Wire: The Musical Experience America's failing drug war through the magic of song!	Omar Little	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2012	TV Finding Your Roots Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches...	Self	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2011	Movie The Cookout 2 Basketball coach Ashmokeem kidnaps and blackmails the opposite team's player and his family in order to secure the championship for...	Cable Guy Mike	TMDB 3.8 / 10
2011	Movie 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 passion)...	Sonnyboy	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2010	TV Detroit 1-8-7 What does it take to be a detective in one of America's toughest cities? Follow one homicide unit as Detroit's...	Clarence Warrenton	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2010	TV Boardwalk Empire Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs...	Albert 'Chalky' White	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2010	Movie Life During Wartime Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and...	Allen	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2010	Movie Brooklyn's Finest Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects...	Red	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2009	Movie The Road A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on...	The Thief	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2009	TV Community Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional...	Professor Marshall Kane	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2009	Movie A Day in the Life Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz directs and stars in this hip-hop musical about a gangster who gets caught up in a...	Killer Mike	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2009	TV The Philanthropist The title character, Teddy Rist (portrayed by James Purefoy), is a billionaire playboy haunted by the death of his only...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2009	Movie Tell-Tale A man's recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor's killer before a similar fate...	Acherton	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2009	Movie Wonderful World Ben Singer is a failed children's folk singer, a career proofreader, a less-than-extraordinary weekend dad, and perhaps the most negative...	Ibu	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2008	Movie Miracle at St. Anna Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier"...	Tucker	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2008	Movie 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...	Tone	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2008	Movie The Incredible Hulk Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But...	Harlem Bystander	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2007	Movie The Wire: The Last Word A documentary exploring the role of the media in relation to the acclaimed series The Wire.	Self	TMDB 1.5 / 10
2007	Movie The Wire Odyssey A retrospective documentary of the first four seasons of the acclaimed series The Wire.	Self	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2007	Movie 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, the...	James	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2007	Movie Gone Baby Gone When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case,...	Devin	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2007	Movie Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22 The second half of R. Kelly's unfinished hip hop opera	Sgt. James	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2007	Movie 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 getting...	Teddy	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2006	TV Six Degrees Six very different New Yorkers go about their lives without realizing the impact they're having on one another—yet. A mysterious...	Michael	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2006	Movie Killa Season Flea was a basketball player, happy with his subtle hustle, until a Dominican connect introduced him to a new way...	Mike	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2006	Movie Mercenary for Justice Mercenary John Seeger is one of the best in the business. John and his crew battle some soldiers on Galmoral...	Samuel Kay	TMDB 4.4 / 10
2006	Movie The Bondage An O.C. youth escapes an abusive home only to find himself entangled in the California Juvenile Justice system and a...	Willie	TMDB 9.3 / 10
2005	TV Trapped in the Closet Trapped in the Closet on the Independent Film Channel (IFC), starring Grammy-winner R. Kelly as Sylvester, is one of the...	Unknown character	Not rated
2005	Movie 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,...	James	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2005	Movie Lackawanna Blues In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of...	Jimmy	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2004	Movie Doing Hard Time A father's eight year old son is murdered in a gangland shooting. The father gets himself thrown into prison to...	Curtis Craig aka: Durty Curt From Detroit	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2004	TV Boston Legal Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a...	Randall Kirk	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2004	Movie Barbershops Uncut: East Coast A raw and uncensored look at what really goes down in urban barbershops.	Self	Not rated
2002	TV The Wire Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures...	Omar Little	TMDB 8.6 / 10
2001	TV Alias Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working...	Roberts	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2000	TV CSI: Crime Scene Investigation A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable...	Laurent / Paul	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2000	TV CSI: Crime Scene Investigation A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable...	Ronnie	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2000	Movie Broke Even Dot, Lem and Curry, three hapless working-class chums living in the Bronx, have a penchant for gambling. While riding a...	Kenny	TMDB 4.1 / 10
1999	Movie Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 A collection of Madonna's favorite videos from 1993-1999. Contains the 14 videos: Bad Girl, Fever, Rain, Secret, Take A Bow,...	(segment "Secret")	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1999	Movie Bringing Out the Dead Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to...	Drug Dealer	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1999	TV Third Watch The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen,...	Cop One	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1999	TV Law & Order: Special Victims Unit In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...	Double-D Gamble	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1999	TV Law & Order: Special Victims Unit In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...	John Victor Bodine	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1999	TV The Sopranos The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the...	Ray Ray	TMDB 8.7 / 10
1998	Movie The Substitute 2: School's Out When teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral - his estranged...	Gang Member #2 (uncredited)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1996	Movie MugShot A white guy wakes up in a deserted building in Harlem with no money, ID, and no memory of how...	Rumor	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1996	Movie Bullet A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return...	High Top	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1990	TV Law & Order In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects...	Marcus Cole	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1990	TV Law & Order In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects...	Charles Cole	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1990	TV Law & Order In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects...	Delmore Walton	TMDB 7.3 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2017	Movie Shelter At the Covenant House, located on the outskirts of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana, the doors never close,...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2016	TV Black Market In his most personal project to date, Michael K. Williams explores underground economies in America and around the world.	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2014	Movie Bro Bro is the story of Jamal and AJ, two brothers in NYC. Jamal returns home from prison to see a...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated
2012	Movie Snow on tha Bluff When Curtis Snow steals a video camera from some college kids during a dope deal, he gives the camera to...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.3 / 10

Fame and Fentanyl

2025

The Brown Dog

2024

Surrounded

2023 / TMDB 6.1

Breaking

2022 / TMDB 6.5

Body Brokers

2021 / TMDB 6.2

Lines

2021 / TMDB 2.0

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Michael K. Williams

Known for

Assassin’s Creed (2016)

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Personal details

Credits

Latest Release

Fame and Fentanyl

The Brown Dog

Surrounded

Breaking

Body Brokers

Lines

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