Michael K. Williams

thumb Michael Kenneth Williams (November 22, 1966 – September 6, 2021) was an American actor. Quotes I was doing a bunch of videos, you know, just dancing background. But then on my birthday, on my 25th birthday, I got cut in my face in a barroom brawl. There was a popping party going on in Queens. Went outside to get some air, and I saw that two of my other friends was being surrounded by some dudes who I didn't know. And it looked like they were about to get jumped. And I said, yo, I'm ready to leave. Let's go back. I'm going to go back home now. But this one dude kept pacing behind me. He kept walking behind me. He kept, like, you know, like, sucking his teeth. And I'm looking. I'm like, yo, so what's up, dude? Like, yo, bro, what's your problem? Things changed immediately after that. Directors didn't want me just to dance in the videos anymore, they wanted me to act out these thug roles, you know? I was like - you know, Mike, roll these dice in this video, have this fight in this video. I was like, all right. My mom opened up a day care in the projects where we lived. So in 2000, she was like, why don't you come work in day care, you know? So I said, Ma, you know, I want to give this acting thing one more shot. It doesn't work, I'm done. It's me and you. We changing Pampers, baby. My phone did not ring. And man, I was down in the dumps. I got really depressed - like really depressed. And then March came. And one day she called me, said, you got a fax downstairs here. I went downstairs to her office, and it was the breakdown for Omar from "The Wire" on HBO. I got to grow with an amazing group of people that I consider my "Wire" family. That character changed my life, and that was my big break. Revisiting A Conversation With Michael K. Williams' About His Winding Path To Success;Retrieved on September 7, 2021 External links Category:Actors from New York City Category:2021 deaths Category:1966 births Category:African Americans