Cress Williams: biography and filmography

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Cress Williams is an American actor known for his roles in such films and TV series as Fallen, Detective Nash Bridges, Breakout and others. filmography.

Cress Williams: biography

Kress was born in 1970 in the university city of Heidelberg, in southwestern Germany. While still at a young age, he moved with his family to Los Angeles (California), where he graduated from Fullerton College, where James Cameron once studied. It was there, participating in local theatrical productions, that he first felt like an actor.

In 2000, Kress married American singer and actress Simbi Khali, they had two children, but in 2011 the marriage broke up. And two years later, the actor legalized a new relationship with his girlfriend Kristen Torriani.

Star Trek Earl Manigault

The first role that Cress Williams got in 1994 was on television. Then he played Talak'talan, a humanoid soldier in the service of the Dominion, in one episode of Rick Berman and Michael Piller's action adventure Star Trek:Deep Space 9.”

And in 1993 and 1994, he played basketball player D'Shawn Hardell for 13 episodes in the 4th and 5th seasons of the FOX teen drama Beverly Hills 90210 (1990–2000).

In 1995, Cress Williams got a small role in Gregg Araki's crime drama Generation Doom, about the journey of three troubled teenagers across America.

A year later, he starred in the HBO biographical drama The Return: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault.

from 1993 to 1998 as Terrence Williams, a childhood friend of the main character Khajita James, appeared in the comedy series Ivette Leigh Bowser's "Single Men and Single Women" (1993-1998).

Masquerade close to home

In 1998, together with Denzel Washington and John Goodman, the actor starred in Gregory Hoblit's fantasy thriller Fallen.

Two years later, Roy Campanella II's comedy-drama "Masquerade" was released - a television film with Cress Williams, where the actor starred with his first wife Simbi Khali.

From 2000 to 2001, the actor played the role of San Francisco inspector Antoine Babcock in the sixth season of Carlton Cuse's police drama Detective Nash Bridges (1996-2001).

In 2005 and 2006, Kress took on the role of Nathan Woods, a character in the second season of Rob Thomas' mystical drama Veronica Mars (2004–2007).

Played Detective Ed Williams for 20 episodes of Jim Leonard's crime drama Near Home (2005–2007).

Officer Reggie Moore played in the 5th, 6th and 14th seasons of Michael Crichton's medical drama ER (1994–2009).

Escape from intensive care

From 2006 to 2008, Cress Williams played Tucker Jones, ex-wife of surgeon Miranda Bailey, in the medical drama Grey's Anatomy by Shonda Rhimes (2005 - …).

The role of a mercenary named Wyatt, hired to kill Michael, Lincoln and Mahone, played in Paul Scheuring's drama series "Escape" (2005-2017).

Tried on the image of Ornette Howard - one of the characters in the fifth season of Peter Berg's multi-episode drama "Friday Night Lights" (2006–2011).

In Leila Gerstein's serial comedy drama Southern State Zoe Hart (2011-2015), Kress got the role of Levon Hayes, the mayor of the city, former football player and Zoe Hart's best friend.

As a surgeon, Cola Guthrie starred in six episodes of Michael Seitzman's medical drama Resuscitation (2015–2018).

At the moment, Cress Williams is filming Salim Akil's superhero series "Black Lightning" (2018 - …), where he plays the headmaster Jefferson Pierce, who can manipulate electricity.