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Billy Dee Biography

Billy Dee is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on April 6, 1937 in New York, United States.

William December “Billy Dee” Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, voice actor, and artist. He is best known as Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise, first in the early 1980s, and nearly forty years later in The Rise of Skywalker (2019), marking one of the longest intervals between onscreen portrayals of a character by the same actor in American film history.

Williams first appeared on Broadway in 1945 in The Firebrand of Florence. He returned to Broadway as an adult in 1960 in the adaptation of The Cool Word. He appeared in A Taste of Honey in 1960. A 1976 Broadway production, I Have a Dream, was directed by Robert Greenwald and starred Williams as Martin Luther King Jr. His most recent Broadway appearance was in August Wilson’s Fences, as a replacement for James Earl Jones in the role of Troy Maxson in 1988.

NameBilly Dee
First NameRod
Last NameMcNeill
OccupationActor
BirthdayApril 6
Birth Year1937
Place of BirthNew York
Home Town
Birth CountryUnited States
Birth SignAries
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FatherNot Available
MotherNot Available
SiblingsNot Available
SpouseTeruko Nakagami , Marlene Clark , Audrey Sellers
Children(s)Corey Williams, Hanako Williams

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Williams attended Booker T. Washington Junior High School where he had dreams of being a painter. He graduated in 1955 from the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan, where he majored in arts with a focus on visual arts. The school would later be the subject for Fame (1980), and its derivative television series. While there he got a two-year scholarship for the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design in New York—which later changed its name to National Academy of Design—to study with a focus on “classical principles of painting”. He was nominated at eighteen or nineteen years old for a Guggenheim Fellowship grant—for “creative ability in the arts;” and won a Hallgarten Prize in the mid-1950s. Although he had scholarships to pay for school tuition, he turned to acting to pay for his paints, supplies, and canvasses. His first Broadway theatre “big break” was a play, A Taste of Honey. He continued to struggle as an actor for ten years working as an extra, doing small and large theatre, and “slowly breaking into television and film”. During art school he gained interest in the Stanislavsky Method—experiencing a role contrasted with representing it, to mobilize an actor’s conscious thought and will to in turn activate emotional response and subconscious behavior—and began studying at the Harlem Actors Workshop. It was run by blacklisted actor Paul Mann who embraced actors of all races; Williams also studied there under Sidney Poitier. He first viewed his acting as a way to pay for his art supplies, by the early 1960s though he began to “devote all of his energy to performance.” In succession he got an actor agent through a friend, started getting major Off-Broadway roles, then work on Broadway.

Billy Dee Net Worth

Billy Dee is one of the richest Actor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Billy Dee's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

William December Williams Jr. was born in New York City, the son of Loretta Anne (1915–2016), a West Indian-born elevator operator at the Lyceum Theatre and aspiring performer from Montserrat, and William December Williams, Sr. (1910–2008), an African-American caretaker, with some Native American ancestry from Texas. He grew up in Harlem on 110th Street, between Lenox and 5th, adjacent to Central Park North–110th Street station. He used to go to Central Park to see the Negro league players and the Cuban baseball league, “They were fantastic, and I wound up working with a lot of those guys,” (in The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)). He has a twin sister, Loretta, and they were raised by their maternal grandmother while their parents worked several jobs. His mom had studied opera for years, becoming an accomplished opera star who wanted to break into movies; the family was richly cultured, exposing the children early on to drawing, painting, theatre and similar creative experiences; Billy Dee would remain a fan of the arts including opera. In March 1945 he made his Broadway debut at age seven portraying a page in The Firebrand of Florence, Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin’s operetta starring Lotte Lenya. His mom, who worked at the theatre, volunteered him for the part which he found boring.

Net Worth$5 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomeActor
CarsNot Available
HouseLiving in own house.

Williams has been married three times, and has three children, and two grandchildren. His first marriage was to Audrey Sellers in 1959. They were divorced some years later, after which he apparently became depressed. He stated that “there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed, my first marriage was on the rocks.” They had a son, Corey Dee Williams, born in 1960. In 1968, Williams married model and actress Marlene Clark in Hawaii. They divorced in 1971. He moved from New York City to California in 1971.

Williams made his film debut in 1959 in The Last Angry Man, opposite Paul Muni, in which he portrayed a delinquent young man. He was frustrated in the 1960s with the “paucity of parts for leading black men,” the majority of roles he wanted went to Sidney Poitier. He enjoyed doing theater and television, but “his slow-building film career ate at him.” He found LSD, a popular hallucinogenic drug with the era’s hippie movement to be a cure, “LSD saved my life … I wasn’t doing it to get high. It let me get inside of myself.” Otherwise he is anti-drug.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Williams was born in New York City, and raised with his twin sister Loretta in Harlem. In 1945 he made his Broadway theatre debut at age seven in The Firebrand of Florence. He later graduated from The High School of Music & Art, then won a painting scholarship to the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, where he won a Hallgarten Prize for painting in the mid-1950s. To fund his art supplies he returned to acting, including stage, films, and television. He continued painting; his work has since been shown in galleries and collections worldwide.

The album included the first-ever vocal recording of “A Taste of Honey”, a song by Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow later covered by The Beatles on their 1963 debut album Please Please Me. Williams was the first to sing the song in the U.S., on the Broadway stage with Joan Plowright as part of the original Broadway production of the play A Taste of Honey. Williams said of the album, “Recording it was sort of a lark. I did some singing in clubs, for a moment, and then I stopped. I have too much respect for singers to really think that I’m a singer.” The album was re-released on CD, Download and Streaming platforms in 2014 and continues to be available.

Who is Billy Dee Dating?

According to our records, Billy Dee married to Teruko Nakagami , Marlene Clark , Audrey Sellers . As of December 1, 2023, Billy Dee’s is not dating anyone.

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In 1961, Williams recorded a jazz LP produced by Prestige Records entitled Let’s Misbehave, on which he sang swing standards. The album, which was a commercial success, earned Williams a spot on Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever (1983).

Facts & Trivia

Rod Ranked on the list of most popular Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Billy Dee celebrates birthday on April 6 of every year.

Williams’s television work has over sixty credits starting in 1966 including recurring roles over the decades in Gideon’s Crossing; Dynasty, General Hospital: Night Shift; and General Hospital. Numerous cameos and supporting roles included being paired with Marla Gibbs on The Jeffersons, 227, and The Hughleys. Later work included voice acting in the series Titan Maximum (2009), and appearing on the reality show Dancing with the Stars (2014). His work has earned him numerous awards and honors including three NAACP Image Awards, and the NAACP Lifetime Achievement award.

What is Billy Dee Williams known for?

Billy Dee Williams
Known forLando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise Gale Sayers in Brian’s Song

How much is Billy D's net worth?

Net Worth:$9 Million
Profession:Actor, Singer, Artist, Writer, Painter, Voice Actor, Musician, Visual Artist, Music artist
Nationality:United States of America

Who is Billy Dee Williams wife?

Wife

Who is Billy Dee Williams sister?

Loretta Williams

Is Carl Weathers Lando in the Mandalorian?

Greef Karga
Star Wars character
Carl Weathers as Greef Karga in The Mandalorian
First appearance“Chapter 1: The Mandalorian” (2019) (The Mandalorian)
Created byJon Favreau
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