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.

Filmography

• 2024The Brown Dog — Nobody
• 2023Surrounded — Will Clay
• 2022Breaking — Eli Bernard
• 2021Body Brokers — Wood
• 2021Lines
• 2020Arkansas — Almond
• 2020Critical Thinking — Mr. Roundtree
• Lovecraft Country — Montrose Freeman
• 2019Motherless Brooklyn — Trumpet Man
• 2019Rematch — Failure
• 2019The Public — Jackson
• 2019The Red Sea Diving Resort — Kabede Bimro
• When They See Us — Bobby McCray
• 2018SuperFly — Scatter
• 2017Shelter — Executive Producer
• When We Rise — Ken Jones
• 2016Anesthesia — Jeffrey
• 2016Assassin's Creed — Moussa
• Black Market — Self - Host, Executive Producer
• 2016Ghostbusters — Agent Hawkins
• Hap and Leonard — Leonard Pine
• 2016The Land — Pops
• The Night Of — Freddy Knight
• 2016Triple 9 — Sweet Pea
• 2016When the Bough Breaks — Roland White
• 2015Bessie — Jack Gee
• 2015Captive — Detective John Chestnut
• The Spoils Before Dying — Rock Banyon
• 2015Time Out of Mind — Mike
• 2014Bro — Executive Producer
• 2014Inherent Vice — Tariq Khalil
• 2014Kill the Messenger — Ricky Ross
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Richard Sackler
• 2014Rand University — Narrator
• 2014RoboCop — Jack Lewis
• 2014That Awkward Moment — Omar Little
• 2014The Gambler — Neville Baraka
• 2014The Purge: Anarchy — Carmelo
• 201312 Years a Slave — Robert
• 2013LUV — Detective Holloway
• Lucas Bros. Moving Co. — Satan
• 2013Snitch — Malik
• 2013The Devil Goes Down — The Devil
• 2013They Die by Dawn — Nat Love
• 2012Snow on tha Bluff — Executive Producer
• 2012The Wire: The Musical — Omar Little
• 2012Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 23-33 — Sgt. James
• 2012You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You — Ad
• 2011The Cookout 2 — Cable Guy Mike
• 2011The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll — Sonnyboy
• Boardwalk Empire — Albert 'Chalky' White
• 2010Brooklyn's Finest — Red
• Detroit 1-8-7 — Clarence Warrenton
• 2010Life During Wartime — Allen
• 2009A Day in the Life — Killer Mike
• Community — Professor Marshall Kane
• 2009Tell-Tale — Acherton
• The Philanthropist
• 2009The Road — The Thief
• 2009Wonderful World — Ibu
• 2008Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club — Tone
• 2008Miracle at St. Anna — Tucker
• 2008The Incredible Hulk — Harlem Bystander
• 2007Gone Baby Gone — Devin
• 2007I Think I Love My Wife — Teddy
• 2007Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-22 — James
• 2007Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22 — Sgt. James
• 2006Killa Season — Mike
• 2006Mercenary for Justice — Samuel Kay
• Six Degrees — Michael
• 2006The Bondage — Willie
• 2005Lackawanna Blues — Jimmy
• Trapped in the Closet
• 2005Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-12 — James
• Boston Legal — Randall Kirk
• 2004Doing Hard Time — Curtis Craig aka: Durty Curt From Detroit
• The Wire — Omar Little
• Alias — Roberts
• 2000Broke Even — Kenny
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Ronnie, Laurent / Paul
• 1999Bringing Out the Dead — Drug Dealer
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Double-D Gamble, John Victor Bodine
• 1999Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 — (segment "Secret")
• The Sopranos — Ray Ray
• Third Watch — Cop One
• 1998The Substitute 2: School's Out — Gang Member #2 (uncredited)
• 1996Bullet — High Top
• 1996MugShot — Rumor
• Law & Order — Charles Cole, Delmore Walton, Marcus Cole

Appearances as themselves (15)

• 2025Fame and Fentanyl — Self (archive footage)
• Dark Side of the 90's — Self
• 2020Beastie Boys Story — Self
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• La route de la soif — Self
• Drop the Mic — Self
• Black Market: Dispatches — Himself - Host
• 2014The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire — Self
• 2013Jim Norton: American Degenerate — Himself
• 2013Picasso Baby — Self
• VICE — Self - Correspondent
• Finding Your Roots — Self
• 2007The Wire Odyssey — Self
• 2007The Wire: The Last Word — Self
• 2004Barbershops Uncut: East Coast — Self