Michael Kenneth Williams

ACTOR, PRODUCER, MISCELLANEOUS

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

Emmy nominated actor and producer, Michael Kenneth Williams is one of this generation's most respected and acclaimed talents. By bringing complicated and charismatic characters to life-often with surprising tenderness-Williams has established himself as a gifted and versatile performer with a unique ability to mesmerize audiences with his stunning character portrayals. Williams is best known for his remarkable work on The Wire.. The wit and humor that Williams brought to Omar, the whistle-happy, profanity-averse, drug dealer-robbing stickup man, earned him high praise and made Omar one of television's most memorable characters. Williams also co-starred in HBO's critically acclaimed series Boardwalk Empire in which he played Chalky White, a 1920's bootlegger; and the impeccably suited, veritable mayor of Atlantic City's African-American community. In 2012, Boardwalk Empire won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. He received his first Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie for HBO's "Bessie" and subsequently received his second nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of 'Freddy' in HBO's "The Night Of"In 2018, VICE returned for its sixth season with an extended special season premiere produced by and featuring Williams as he embarked on a personal journey to expose the root of the American mass incarceration crisis: the juvenile justice system. "Raised in the System" offered a frank and unflinching look at those caught up the system, exploring why the country's mass incarceration problem cannot be fixed without first addressing the juvenile justice problem. Williams investigates the solutions local communities are employing that are resulting in drastic drops in both crime and incarceration. Michael garnered his first Emmy nomination as a producer for this incredible documentary and continues to host screenings across the country as a way to educate and raise awareness.Giving back to the community plays an important role in Williams' off-camera life. He recently launched Making Kids Win, a charitable organization whose primary objective is to build community centers in urban neighborhoods that are in need of safe spaces for children to learn and play. Williams currently serves as the ACLUs Ambassador of Smart Justice.Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Williams began his career as a performer by dancing professionally at age 22. After numerous appearances in music videos and as a background dancer on concert tours for Madonna and George Michael, Williams decided to seriously pursue acting. He participated in several productions of the La MaMA Experimental Theatre, the prestigious National Black Theatre Company and the Theater for a New Generation directed by Mel Williams.Michael Kenneth Williams continues to reside in Brooklyn, New York. - IMDb Mini Biography By: AA

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Michael Kenneth Williams’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Michael Kenneth Williams on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1996 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Michael Kenneth Williams movies released per year from 1996 till 2021.

Top Genres

Michael Kenneth Williams works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Crime Genre flixes. 36% of Michael Kenneth Williams movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Michael Kenneth Williams worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Michael Kenneth Williams has worked on is 6.9.

6.9 / 10

Michael Kenneth Williams's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Crime,Drama,History
Boardwalk Empire (2010)

An Atlantic City politician plays both sides of the law by conspiring with gangsters during the Prohibition era.

8.6/1055 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Mystery
The Night Of (2016)

After a night of partying with a woman he picked up, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.

8.5/10525 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

In his most personal project to date, Michael K. Williams journeys into the dangerous world of illicit trade.

8.1/1030 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,History
12 Years a Slave (2013)

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

8.1/10134 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

In this global series presented by Michael K. Williams, VICE correspondents investigate what drives people into underground economies, and explore how they work.

7.8/1030 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Mystery
Hap and Leonard (2016)

Set in the late 1980's Hap and Leonard is a darkly comic swamp noir of two best friends, one femme fatale, a crew of washed up revolutionaries, a pair of murderous psycho killers, some lost loot, and the fuzz.

7.6/1060 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

A chronicled re-telling of the gay rights movement in the United States, beginning with the Stonewall riots in 1969.

7.1/1085 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Drama,Fantasy,Horror
Lovecraft Country (2020)

A young African-American travels across the U.S. in the 1950s in search of his missing father.

7/1060 min

Available in 9 platform(s).