Darnell "J.D." Williams (born May 22, 1978 in New Jersey is an American actor with starring roles in the HBO television programs Oz and The Wire. Williams has appeared in The Wire. He has also appeared in a show based on a book by The Wire creator, Homicide: Life on the Street, guest starring in the episode "The Why Chromosome" as Casper. He played inmate for the first four seasons of Oz. He had a small guest starring role in The Sopranos episode "46 Long" as Special K, an incompetent stick up man and one of Brendan Filone's goons. He appeared in the pilot episode ("Welcome to Camelot") of Third Watch as Pee-Wee, an errant street kid.
Williams has also had leading roles or cameo appearances in a number of R&B and hip hop music videos. He has appeared as himself, a love interest, and characters resembling his role as a drug dealer on The Wire.
Williams attended Arts High School, a performing arts public school in Newark, NJ. He once owned a bar in Lower Manhattan. He portrayed a biracial 15-year-old dealing with racism and his father's infidelity in the play A.M. Sunday in late 2003 at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE theater. He walked around Baltimore's inner city during the middle of the night a few days before "The Wire"'s first taping in order to get a feel for Baltimore; he is older than his character on The Wire by 8 years. He is a self proclaimed "Video Ho", as a result of cameos and leading roles he had in R&B and Hip Hop music videos between 2002 and 2005.
According to his HBO bio, he is credited with appearing in the film "Graffiti Bridge", but a 2003 interview with AllHipHop.com revealed that Williams was not in the movie. Tevin Campbell filled the cameo role with which Williams is credited.
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