DAmerican actor Michael K. Williams (Michael K. Williams) is dead. Police said on Monday that the 54-year-old star of the TV series The Wire was found dead in his apartment in New York. The police did not provide any information about the cause of death.newspaper New York Post The report quoted the investigating authorities as saying that Williams died on suspicion of drug overdose.
Williams has publicly talked about his drug addiction in the media in the past and said that he has used most of the revenue from the “The Wire” series on drugs. Williams became known to international audiences by playing the gay robbery killer Omar Little in this popular HBO series. The five seasons of the series about the competition of drug dealer gangs in Baltimore City, USA, lasted from 2002 to 2008.
A spokesperson for the actor’s family confirmed his death and demanded respect for the privacy of this celebrity relative from Brooklyn, New York.
Colleagues and fans expressed disappointment at his death. HBO Said: “Although the whole world knows his great talent as an artist, we know that Michael is a dear friend, and all those lucky enough to work with him love him deeply.”
The actor Tray Chaney, who played the drug dealer in “The Wire”, said he was “destroyed.” He wrote on Twitter that Williams is one of “the greatest actors/brothers in the world”.Best-selling horror writer Stephen King Comment on the news with “terrible, sad and unbelievable” on Twitter.
Scar as a trademark
Williams has been nominated for American TV Emmy Awards many times, for example this year for his role in the series “Lovecraft Country”. In 2015, he was nominated for playing the husband of blues singer Bessie Smith in the movie “Bessie”. In 2016, he was nominated for “Night Fall” and in 2019 for “When They See Us”. Williams also appeared in the movies “Twelve Years as a Slave”, “The Road” and “The Lost Baby”.
Williams’ identity mark was a scar on his face, which he claimed was injured in a battle in New York on the night of his 25th birthday. In an interview with NPR, he said that the scar is good for his career because he acts as a background dancer in the music videos of stars such as Madonna and Madonna. George Michael Rise to a role that speaks for the tough role in the drama.
His first big screen breakthrough came from the American rapper Tupac Shakur (Tupac Shakur) making a movie in New York and choosing Williams as his younger brother after seeing a Polaroid photo of Williams. He was subsequently hired as a drug dealer in Martin Scorsese’s “Bring Out the Dead”, and later in “The Wire”, which cemented his success.
