The Wire actor Michael K. Williams dies at 54 - martinezawase1960

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Michael K. Williams, the Emmy-nominated doer best known for playacting Omar Little connected The Wire, has died aged 54.

Williams representative Marianna Shafran confirmed the actor's death in a statement, reading: "It is with deep sorrow that the family announces the cursory of Emmy-nominated actor Michael Kenneth Bernanrd Arthur Owen Williams. They need for your privacy piece bereft this unclimbable loss."

Police enforcement sources told The NY Charles William Post that the actor was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment on Monday, September 6. No cause of dying has been granted As of writing but police said there was "zero nasty play indicated".

Williams was a tinselly screen star, having been nominated for troika Emmys crosswise his career – for his performances in the Bessie, The Night Of, and When They See Us – and with one Emmy all the same pending for his persona in Lovecraft Rural area.

However, it was Williams' character in The Wire that brought him to international attention. He appeared in 41 episodes as Baltimore legend Omar Little, with his performance being and then wide loved that Barack Obama once called Omar his favourite character in his ducky TV show. "That's not an endorsement [of Omar]," Obama said at the time. "He's not my favorite individual, only He's a fascinating character."

Following The Conducting wire, Williams portrayed Chalky White on the HBO serial Boardwalk Empire, winning further plaudit. In fact, there has barely been a show in contention for the statute title of "best TV show ever" that hasn't featured William Carlos Williams, with the thespian having even had a minor role in The Sopranos back in 2001, as good as brief parts in Alias, Community, and Law & Fiat.

Williams' career also spanned movies. The worker appeared in the Best Picture winner 12 Old age A Slave, the TV-game adaption Assassins Creed, the recent Ghostbusters remake, and The Road. Before his death, Williams completed motion-picture photography on the upcoming movies 892, starring alongside John Boyega, and Enclosed, co-starring Jamie Bell and Letitia Wright. Atomic number 2's besides localise to vocalism a character in the upcoming gage Battlefield 2042.

Wendell Pierce, World Health Organization played Detective Bunk Moreland on The Wire, paid protection on Twitter. "The depth of my love for this chum, can only be matched by the astuteness of my pain learning of his loss," he wrote. "A immensely talented piece with the ability to formulate to the homo condition depicting the lives of those whose humanity is seldom elevated until He sings their the true.

"If you don't know, you better ask somebody. His advert was Michael K. Williams. He shared out with me his secret fears and then stepped unfashionable into his acting with true courageousness, acting in the face of fear, not in the absence of IT. It took me years to determine what Michael had in abundance."

Ghostbusters director Paul Feige wrote on Twitter: "This is devastating. Michael was the greatest guy. We had so much fun unitedly on Ghostbusters. Just a lovely homo. My kernel goes bent on his family and friends. RIP Michael. You were impressive."

The Suicide Squad filmmaker Epistle of James Gunn besides paid tribute: "Michael K Williams, in addition to being one of the most talented actors around, was also one of the kindest, sweetest, most aristocratic souls I've ever met. This is heartbreaking. My thoughts are with all those World Health Organization loved him."

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