Cress Williams

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1970-07-26 (55 years old)

Place of Birth

Heidelberg, Germany

Cress Williams

Biography

Cress Williams (born July 26, 1970) is an American actor, known for his roles in Prison Break and Close to Home. His most recent roles include Mayor Lavon Hayes on The CW series Hart of Dixie and the title character on The CW's Black Lightning. Williams is also known for his recurring role as Terrence "Scooter" Williams on Fox's Living Single and as Inspector Antwon Babcock on Nash Bridges. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cress Williams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1995

1997

Home Invasion

as Freemont

1999

2022

What Remains

as Marshall

2024

Dead Wrong

as Paul Drake

2017

Lowriders

as Williams

2018

The Death of Superman

as John Henry Irons (voice)

2000

Masquerade

as Marcus

1996

Rolling Thunder

as 'Grey' Toussaint

2019

Reign of the Supermen

as John Henry Irons / Steel (voice)

2019

The Death and Return of Superman

as John Henry Irons / Steel (voice)

2014

2002

1998

Fallen

as Detective Joe

2021

Crime Story

as Jimmy

1997

L.A. Johns

as Bill Allen

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