Mourning Michael K. Williams. The Wire’s Wendell Pierce and more celebrities honored the late actor after news broke of his death on Monday, September 6.“It is with deep sorrow that the family announces the passing of Emmy nominated actor Michael Kenneth Williams,” the 54-year-old’s rep told The Hollywood Reporter. “They ask for your privacy while grieving this unsurmountable loss.”The New York native, is best known for his roles on The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, Lovecraft Country and When They See Us.
He reflected on a “difficult” part of his life in a July 2016 NPR interview.“I was broken,” Williams said of the time he spent filming season 3 of The Wire. “I was on drugs, and I was in jeopardy of destroying everything that I had worked so
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