Born on this day – Michael Kenneth Williams:

Michael Kenneth Williams

Actor

November 22, 1966 – September 6, 2021

Credits:

5up 2down (2006); 12 Years a Slave (2013); 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2014); A Day in the Life (2009); A Kiss of Chaos (2009); A$AP Rocky: Phoenix (2013); About The People (2019); Above the Noise (2017); Addicts (2009); Against the Wall (2016); Alias (2005); America in Primetime (2011); Anesthesia (2015); Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2012); Antwand Pearman Vs. The Interview (2016); Aqua Teen Hunger Force (2011); Arkansas (2020); Assassin's Creed (2016); Battlefield 2042 (2021); Battlefield 4 (2013); Bayou Black (2011); Beastie Boys Story (2020); Behind the Steve (2010); Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club (2008); Bessie (2015); BET Awards 2021 (2021); Black Market with Michael K. Williams (2016–2022); Black Market: Dispatches (2016); Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014); Body Brokers (2021); Boston Legal (2005); Breaking (2022); Bring That Year Back 2006: Laugh Now, Cry Later (2006); Bringing Out the Dead (1999); Bro (2014); Broke Even (2000); Bronx County (1998); Brooklyn's Finest (2009); Brooklyn's Finest: Three Cops and a Dealer (2010); Bullet (1996); Captive (2015); Catching Up (2020); CBS Saturday Morning (2019); Celebrity Page (2019 / 2021); Ciroc: Rat Pack - Art of Celebration (2011); Community (2011–2012); Crack in America (2015); Crispus Attucks: Today Was a Good Day (2012); Criterion: Closet Picks (2011); Critical Thinking (2020); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005–2010); CSI: NY (2008); Deadline (2001); Detroit 1-8-7 (2011); Doing Hard Time (2004); Drop the Mic (2018); Entertainment Tonight (2021–2024); F Is for Family (2017–2021); Fairfield County (2013); Father (2019); Finding Your Roots (2019); Freeway: What We Do (2003); FRO Thizzle Reviews (2022); Ghostbusters (2016); Ghostface Killah: Love Don't Live Here No More (2014); Gone Baby Gone (2007); Grace After Midnight Pain (2016); Guile (2005); Hap and Leonard (2016–2018); HBO Boxing (2013); HBO Go: Call to Action (2014); Here and Now (2020); High School USA! (2013); Hollywood Insider (2021); Huang's World (2017); Human Giant (2008); I Love the 2000s (2014); I Think I Love My Wife (2007); Inherent Vice (2014); Jim Norton: American Degenerate (2013); KeAnthony: A Hustlaz Story (2008); Kill the Messenger (2014); Kill the Messenger: The All-Star Cast (2015); Lackawanna Blues (2005); Larry King Now (2013); Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014); Late Night with Seth Meyers (2016–2018); Law & Order (1997–2009); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2003–2006); Leute heute (2021); Life During Wartime (2009); Little Dixie (2023); Love and Hip Hop: New York (2017); Lovecraft Baby (2019); Lovecraft Country (2020); Lucas Bros Moving Co (2014); Luv (2012); Made in Hollywood (2019); Madonna: Secret (1994); Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 / Segment: Secret (1999); Marilyn Manson: The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles (2015); Mercenary for Justice (2006); MGMT: Cool Song No. 2 (2013); Miracle at St. Anna (2008); Motherless Brooklyn (2019); Movies That Changed My Life (2020); MugShot (1996); NBA 2K21 (2020); Nobody's Nobody's (2012); Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now (2019); Park Bench with Steve Buscemi (2014); Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film (2013); Plant Hunter (2013); Rachael Ray (2018); Red Table Talk (2022); RoboCop (2014); Rocco's Dinner Party (2011); SAG Foundation Conversations (2017); Shelter (2016); Six Degrees (2006–2007); Snitch (2013); Snow on tha Bluff (2011); Soul of a Nation (2021); Studio 5 (2023); SuperFly (2018); Surrounded (2023); Taking on Tyson (2011); Talk Stoop (2009); Tamron Hall (2021); Tavis Smiley (2004); TCM Remembers 2021 (2021); Tell Tale (2009); The 1st Annual HCA TV Awards (2021); The 26th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (2021); The 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2022); The 2nd Annual Vibe Awards (2004); The 41st International Emmy Awards (2013); The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards (2015); The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards (2017); The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2021); The Arsenio Hall Show (2014); The Big Fat Quiz of the Year (2006); The Bondage (2006); The Brown Dog (2024); The Cookout 2 (2011); The Daily Show (2016–2017); The Devil Goes Down (2013); The Gambler (2014); The Game: Documentary / Segment: How We Do (2005); The Guest Book (2018); The Harder They Fall (2021); The Hour (2011); The Incredible Hulk (2008); The Kill Point (2007); The Land (2016); The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2011); The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2016–2018); The Night Of (2016); The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (2016); The Oscars (2022); The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2009); The Philanthropist (2009); The Public (2018); The Purge: Anarchy (2014); The Queen Latifah Show (2014); The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019); The Road (2009); The Rotten Tomatoes Show (2009–2010); The Sopranos (2001); The Spoils Before Dying (2015); The Undefeated (2021); The Wendy Williams Show (2012–2016); The Wire (2002–2008); The Wire Odyssey (2007); The Wire: It's All Connected (2006); The Wire: The Last Word (2007); The Wire: The Musical (2012); The Year: 2021 (2021); They Die by Dawn (2013); Third Watch (2002); Tiger Slam (2020); Time Out of Mind (2014); Today (2019 / 2021); Touré Show (2021); Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-12 (2005); Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22 (2007); Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 23-33 (2012); Triple 9 (2016); Unsung (2019); Up Close with Carrie Keagan (2009); Vice (2018); Vital Signs (2025); W8 (Weight) (2012); Walk This Way (2013); We See You, We Stand with You (2020); When the Bough Breaks (2016); When They See Us (2019); When They See Us: The Actors (2019); When They See Us: The Criminal System of Injustice (2019); When We Rise (2017); Wonderful World (2009); WTF with Marc Maron (2021); You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You (2012).