Tyler James Williams

Tyler James Williams

Born: October 9, 1992
in Westchester County, New York, USA
Tyler James Williams (born October 9, 1992) is an American actor and rapper. He is best known for playing the title character on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, songwriter Cyrus DeBarge in the Disney Channel movie Let It Shine, and Noah on AMC's The Walking Dead. He has also appeared in films such as Detroit and The United States vs. Billie Holiday.

He is a series regular on the workplace sitcom Abbott Elementary (2021-).

Movies for Tyler James Williams...

Title: History of the World: Part II
Character: Private Mason Dixon
Released: March 6, 2023
Type: TV
Explore different periods of human history through a variety of sketches.
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Title: The Jennifer Hudson Show
Released: September 12, 2022
Type: TV
Talented entertainer and newly-minted EGOT Jennifer Hudson takes on the daytime talk show landscape.
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Title: The Jennifer Hudson Show
Character: Self
Released: September 12, 2022
Type: TV
Talented entertainer and newly-minted EGOT Jennifer Hudson takes on the daytime talk show landscape.
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Title: Abbott Elementary
Character: Gregory Eddie
Released: December 7, 2021
Type: TV
In this workplace comedy, a group of dedicated, passionate teachers — and a slightly tone-deaf principal — are brought together in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life. Though these incredible public servants may be outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do — even if they don’t love the school district’s less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.
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The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Title: The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Character: Lester 'Prez' Young
Released: March 31, 2021
Type: Movie
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
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The Argument
Title: The Argument
Character: Paul
Released: September 4, 2020
Type: Movie
A couple get into an argument at their cocktail party that escalates until it brings an abrupt end to the festivities. They and their guests decide to re-create the entire night again and again to determine who was right.
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Title: Harley Quinn
Character: Hawkman (voice)
Released: November 29, 2019
Type: TV
Harley Quinn has finally broken things off once and for all with the Joker and attempts to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City.
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The Wedding Year
Title: The Wedding Year
Character: Jake
Released: September 20, 2019
Type: Movie
A commitment-phobic 27-year old’s relationship is put to the test when she and her boyfriend attend 7 weddings in the same year.
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Title: The Kelly Clarkson Show
Released: September 9, 2019
Type: TV
Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities.
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Title: Tamron Hall
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 9, 2019
Type: TV
Former news host and journalist Tamron Hall discusses all things topical and engages those she interviews in thorough meaningful and entertaining conversations.
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Title: A Black Lady Sketch Show
Character: Detric
Released: August 2, 2019
Type: TV
A narrative series set in a limitless magical reality full of dynamic, hilarious characters and celebrity guests presenting sketches performed by a core cast of black women.
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Title: A Black Lady Sketch Show
Character: Rome
Released: August 2, 2019
Type: TV
A narrative series set in a limitless magical reality full of dynamic, hilarious characters and celebrity guests presenting sketches performed by a core cast of black women.
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Title: Whiskey Cavalier
Character: Edgar Standish
Released: February 27, 2019
Type: TV
Following an emotional breakup, tough but tender FBI super-agent Will Chase (codename: “Whiskey Cavalier”) is assigned to work with badass CIA operative Frankie Trowbridge (codename: “Fiery Tribune”). Together, they lead an inter-agency team of flawed, funny and heroic spies who periodically save the world (and each other) while navigating the rocky roads of friendship, romance and office politics.
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Detroit
Title: Detroit
Character: Leon
Released: July 28, 2017
Type: Movie
A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
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Title: Dear White People
Character: Carson Rhodes
Released: April 28, 2017
Type: TV
At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a diverse group of students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.
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Title: RePlay
Character: Nate
Released: April 20, 2016
Type: TV
In RePlay, Allison Lee (Fonseca), an aspiring DJ, decides to throw a warehouse party to celebrate her 25th birthday. This attracts the attention of notorious Vegas club promoters, “SvenandSophie.” When they show up to the party to hear her set, Allison scrambles to make it the most epic of parties. Of course it all falls apart — disastrously.
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Title: Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders
Character: Russ Montgomery
Released: March 16, 2016
Type: TV
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders is a drama about the specialized International Division of the FBI tasked with solving crimes and coming to the rescue of Americans who find themselves in danger while abroad.
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Title: The Late Late Show with James Corden
Character: Self - Guest
Released: March 23, 2015
Type: TV
Once Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a late night talk show that interviews celebrities and has its own bits. And of course, it's all hosted by James Corden.
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Dear White People
Title: Dear White People
Character: Lionel Higgins
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Four college students attend an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over an "African-American" themed party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film explores racial identity in 'post racial' America while weaving a story about forging one's unique path in the world.
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Peeples
Title: Peeples
Character: Simon Peeples
Released: May 9, 2013
Type: Movie
The story follows what happens when a child psychologist surprises his girlfriend by showing up at her political family's annual get-together at their Sag Harbor vacation home only to find them desperately in need of therapy.
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Title: Go On
Character: Owen
Released: August 8, 2012
Type: TV
Ryan King, a recent widower and sports talk radio host ready to get back to work after the loss of his wife. Ryan's alpha-male boss, Stephen, has a different plan in store for Ryan, making him attend grief counseling before returning to the air. A reluctant Ryan finds himself in a support group for "life change," where he meets an oddball cast of characters, all with their own backstories filled with varying degrees of loss.
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Let It Shine
Title: Let It Shine
Character: Cyrus
Released: June 15, 2012
Type: Movie
A young teenage rapper must use his musical talent to help his friend out and win the girl of his dreams by going through several events of betrayal, trust and agreement while his religious parents have strictly dislike his interests.
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Title: Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man
Character: Prowler (voice)
Released: April 1, 2012
Type: TV
While being trained by S.H.I.E.L.D., Spider-Man battles evil with a new team of teen colleagues.
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Title: Lab Rats
Character: Future Leo
Released: February 27, 2012
Type: TV
Leo is an ordinary teenager who has moved into a high-tech "smart'' house with his mother, inventor stepfather and Eddy, the computer that runs the house. Leo's life becomes less ordinary when, one day, he discovers a secret underground lab that houses three experiments: superhuman teenagers. The trio -- Adam, the strong one, Bree, the fast one and Chase, the smart one -- convinces Leo and his parents to let them leave their lab and join Leo at school, where they try to fit in while having to manage their unpredictable bionic strengths. As Leo figures out a way to keep his new pals' bionic abilities a secret, they help him build self-confidence.
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Title: Key & Peele
Character: Jaleel White
Released: January 31, 2012
Type: TV
Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television show. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both former cast members of MADtv. Each episode of the show consists of several pre-taped sketches starring the two actors, introduced by Key and Peele in front of a live studio audience.
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Title: Talking Dead
Character: Self
Released: October 16, 2011
Type: TV
Host Chris Hardwick discusses episodes of the AMC television series The Walking Dead with guests, including celebrity fans, cast members, and crew from the series.
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Title: The Walking Dead
Character: Noah
Released: October 31, 2010
Type: TV
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
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Title: Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Character: Firestorm (voice)
Released: November 14, 2008
Type: TV
The Caped Crusader is teamed up with Blue Beetle, Green Arrow, Aquaman and countless others in his quest to uphold justice.
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Title: Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Character: Firestorm / Jason Rusch (voice)
Released: November 14, 2008
Type: TV
The Caped Crusader is teamed up with Blue Beetle, Green Arrow, Aquaman and countless others in his quest to uphold justice.
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Title: True Jackson, VP
Character: Justin Webber
Released: November 8, 2008
Type: TV
A 15-year-old fashionista lands the opportunity of a lifetime when the CEO of Mad Style hires her as the vice president of its youth apparel division.
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Unaccompanied Minors
Title: Unaccompanied Minors
Character: Charlie Goldfinch
Released: December 8, 2006
Type: Movie
Five disparate kids snowed in at the airport on Christmas Eve learn some lessons about friendship when they launch a bid to get back to their families and outsmart a disgruntled airport official who wants to keep them grounded.
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Title: The Megan Mullally Show
Released: September 18, 2006
Type: TV
The Megan Mullally Show is an American talk show hosted by Megan Mullally that debuted in syndication on September 18, 2006, and was cancelled in January 2007 due to its low ratings. Early promotions for the program featured Mullally as herself and as her Will & Grace character, Karen Walker. The talk show also aired nationally on TBS and was distributed by NBC Universal Television Distribution. Promotional television advertisements featured Mullally standing in front of the title-card attempting to correct the voice-over announcer who throughout the commercial mispronounces her name as "Minnie Minnie Moo Moo" and "Monkey McMonkey" among other names. The first episode featured actor Will Ferrell and Jenny McCarthy.
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The Ant Bully
Title: The Ant Bully
Character: Blue Teammate #1 (voice)
Released: July 28, 2006
Type: Movie
Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the insects shrink him to the size of a bug with a magic elixir. Convicted of "crimes against the colony," Lucas can only regain his freedom by living with the ants and learning their ways.
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Title: Everybody Hates Chris
Character: Chris
Released: September 22, 2005
Type: TV
Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.
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Title: Hi-Jinks
Released: August 2, 2005
Type: TV
Hi-Jinks is a hidden camera show that premiered on Nick at Nite in 2005. The show is hosted by Leila Sbitani. The show gives parents a chance to play practical jokes on their children, in a similar fashion to Candid Camera. Taking a cue from Punk'd, each show features a prank that is conducted with the assistance of a known celebrity.
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Title: House
Character: Landon
Released: November 16, 2004
Type: TV
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
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Title: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 2003
Type: TV
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.
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Title: Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Released: January 26, 2003
Type: TV
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.
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Title: Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Character: Self
Released: January 26, 2003
Type: TV
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Kyle McGovern
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: The View
Character: Self
Released: August 11, 1997
Type: TV
ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Meghan McCain, and Abby Huntsman, discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.
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Title: The Practice
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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Title: The Daily Show
Character: Self
Released: July 22, 1996
Type: TV
The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.
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Title: LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 5, 1988
Type: TV
A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus spontaneous, hilarious and unpredictable talk.
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Title: Saturday Night Live
Character: Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1975
Type: TV
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
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Amber Alert
Title: Amber Alert
Character: Shane
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Follows an ordinary ride share that becomes a high-stakes game of cat & mouse when they begin pursuit of a possible child trafficker.