Actor
Jesse Williams
Born August 5, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois, USA22 films
Jesse Wesley Williams is an American actor, director, producer and activist. He played Dr. Jackson Avery on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy (2009–22) and has appeared in films such as The Cabin in the Woods (2012) and The Butler (2013). He has provided voice acting and motion capture for Markus in the video game Detroit: Become Human (2018). He served as an executive producer of the Academy Award-winning short, Two Distant Strangers (2020) and the Tony Award-winning revival of Take Me Out (2022), the latter of which he was also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
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First watchThe Butler20137.3as Rev. James LawsonCecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his.View filmEssential films
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Filmography
22 films as actor- TBALegacyTroy
- TBAThe Decline of F*cking Western Civilization
- 2026MontmartreToussaint
- 2025What We HideSheriff Ben Jeffries
- 2024The Great Lillian HallDavid Flemming
- 2023Your Place or MineTheo
- 2022Secret HeadquartersIrons
- 2019Jacob's LadderIsaac 'Ike' Singer
- 2019Random Acts of ViolenceTodd Walkley
- 2019Selah and the SpadesHeadmaster Banton
- 2017Band AidSkyler
- 2016MoneySean
- 2013They Die by DawnJohn Taylor
- 2013Snake & MongooseDon "The Snake" Prudomme
- 2013The ButlerRev. James Lawson
- 2013Rich Girl ProblemsPeter
- 2012The Cabin in the WoodsHolden McCrea
- 2011J.A.W.Enin
- 2010Dirty Dancing 3: Capoeira Nights
- 2010Brooklyn's FinestE. Quinlan
- 2009WashingtonienneKeya
- 2008The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2Leo