Michael K. Williams has died at age 54, Us Weekly confirms.“It is with deep sorrow that the family announces the passing of Emmy nominated actor Michael Kenneth Williams,” the actor’s rep told The Hollywood Reporter on Monday, September 6. “They ask for your privacy while grieving this unsurmountable loss.”The New York native was best known for playing Omar in The Wire from 2002 to 2008, as well as Chalky White in Boardwalk Empire from 2010 to 2014.
Williams also starred in 12 Years a Slave and When They See Us.Most recently, the Emmy nominee acted in Lovecraft Country. He told Deadline in July that filming the HBO show got him “in touch with [his] deeper trauma.”He explained at the time: “I know that I have trauma with my past experiences
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