Michael Kenneth Williams
Known for: Acting
Born: November 22, 1966
Died: September 6, 2021
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
You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You
2012
The Devil Goes Down
2013
The Wire: The Musical
2012
The Brown Dog
2024
MugShot
1996
Doing Hard Time
2004
Life During Wartime
2010
Jim Norton: American Degenerate
2013
Rand University
2014
Rematch
2019
Breaking
2022
Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club
2008
Wonderful World
2009
Captive
2015
SuperFly
2018
Critical Thinking
2020
Surrounded
2023
Broke Even
2000
Lines
2021
Fame and Fentanyl
2025
Killa Season
2006
The Purge: Anarchy
2014
The Gambler
2014
Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 23-33
2012
The Red Sea Diving Resort
2019
Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22
2007
Body Brokers
2021
They Die by Dawn
2013
Snitch
2013
Bessie
2015
Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-12
2005
When the Bough Breaks
2016
Mercenary for Justice
2006
Barbershops Uncut: East Coast
2004
The Wire: The Last Word
2007
RoboCop
2014
Assassin's Creed
2016
The Land
2016
Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-22
2007
The Road
2009
Brooklyn's Finest
2010
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
2014
Beastie Boys Story
2020
The Cookout 2
2011
Arkansas
2020
LUV
2013
A Day in the Life
2009
Kill the Messenger
2014
Motherless Brooklyn
2019
Gone Baby Gone
2007
The Public
2019
Tell-Tale
2009
I Think I Love My Wife
2007
Triple 9
2016
Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-33
2012
12 Years a Slave
2013
Anesthesia
2016
Bullet
1996
Inherent Vice
2014
The Bondage
2006
Bringing Out the Dead
1999
Picasso Baby
2013
Time Out of Mind
2015
Lackawanna Blues
2005
Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99
1999
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
2011
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
The Substitute 2: School's Out
1998
Ghostbusters
2016
The Wire Odyssey
2007
That Awkward Moment
2014
The Incredible Hulk
2008
The Wire
2002
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Tamron Hall
2019
Finding Your Roots
2012
Community
2009
The Philanthropist
2009
Detroit 1-8-7
2010
Boston Legal
2004
The Spoils Before Dying
2015
Law & Order
1990
Hap and Leonard
2016
Black Market
2016
Black Market: Dispatches
2016
When We Rise
2017
Dark Side of the 90's
2021
Drop the Mic
2017
The Sopranos
1999
When They See Us
2019
VICE
2013
Lovecraft Country
2020
La route de la soif
2018
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
The Night Of
2016
Boardwalk Empire
2010
Six Degrees
2006
Third Watch
1999
Alias
2001
Lucas Bros. Moving Co.
2013
Trapped in the Closet
2005