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Williams – SAG-AFTRA Foundation Patron of the Artists Awards 2017 – Arrivals – Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 9390 N Santa Monica Boulevard – Beverly Hills, CA, USA – Photo Credit: Izumi Hasegawa / PRPhotos.com
Place of Birth: Westchester County, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 9, 1992
Ethnicity: African-American
Tyler James Williams is an American actor, hip hop recording artist, martial artist, musician, music video director, film director, and graphic designer. His roles include the films Unaccompanied Minors , Let It Shine , Tyler Perry Presents Peeples , Dear White People , Detroit , The Wedding Year , The Argument , and The United States vs. Billie Holiday , and the series Sesame Street , Everybody Hates Chris , Go On , The Walking Dead , Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders , Whiskey Cavalier , and Abbott Elementary . He is also known as Tyler Williams, Tyler J. Williams, and T.J. Williams.
His brothers are actors Tyrel Jackson Williams and Tylen Jacob Williams. He is the son of Le’Roy Williams, a police sergeant, and Angela Williams, a singer and songwriter.