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Key facts
- Born
- Keith David Williams , ( 1956-06-04 ) June 4, 1956 (age 69) , New York City , U.S.
- Education
- Juilliard School ( BFA )
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1977–present
- Spouses
- Margit Edwards ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1990 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1999 ) Dionne Lea Williams ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2001 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Keith
- Family name
- Williams
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Occupation
- comedian
- Educated at
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Fallout
- Image
- Keith David 3rd Annual ICON MANN POWER 50 event - Feb 2015 (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Keith David
- date of birth
- 1956-06-04
- start of work period
- 1979-00-00
- different from
- David Keith
- name in native language
- Keith David
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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Encyclopedic overview
Keith David Williams (born June 4, 1956) is an American actor. He is mostly known for his bass voice and screen presence in over 400 roles across film, stage, television, voice work and interactive media.
He has starred in such films as The Thing (1982), Platoon (1986), They Live (1988), Dead Presidents (1995), Armageddon (1998), There's Something About Mary (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Pitch Black (2000), Barbershop (2002), Crash (2004), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Cloud Atlas (2012), The Nice Guys (2016), Nope (2022), and American Fiction (2023). He starred as Elroy Patashnik in the sixth season of the NBC series Community (2015) and as Bishop James Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama Greenleaf (2016–2020).
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