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Biography:A native of Brooklyn, NY, actor Michael Kenneth Williams fell into a typecast with repeated portrayals of hoods, toughs, and career criminals from project to project. Williams entered acting courtesy of professional dancing, which he began at the age of 22; in that arena, his unique and individualistic moves caught the attention of producers and landed him in a string of music videos. Williams subsequently decided to pursue classical training as an actor, which he received via participation in the National Black Theater Company and New York's La' MaMA Theatre Company, though his breakthrough arrived at the hands of the late gangster rapper Tupac Shakur, who discovered Williams and cast him as his own little brother in the Julien Temple-directed urban crime drama Bullet (1995). Work for Martin Scorsese followed, with a minor role in the grueling psychodrama Bringing Out the Dead (1999), though Williams... Full Biography
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Michael Kenneth Williams
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Michael Kenneth Williams
Michael Kenneth Williams and Dominic West arrive at the "The Wire" Season 5 Premiere at...
Michael Kenneth Williams and Sonja Sohn arrive at the "The Wire" Season 5 Premiere at the...
Michael Kenneth Williams and Dominic West arrive at the "The Wire" Season 5 Premiere at...
Michael Kenneth Williams and Dominic West arrive at the "The Wire" Season 5 Premiere at...
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