View for person of id: 1985
Saul Williams
Born: 29th Feb 1972 Newburgh, New York, USA
Dept: Acting
Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, musician, poet, writer, and actor. He is known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop and his lead roles in the 1998 independent film Slam and the 2013 jukebox musical Holler If Ya Hear Me.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Saul Williams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
[ToDo] Show list of extra photos here.
Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 28
Film: 25 (89%)
Television: 3 (11%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Romance
Filmography
2025
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is wait ... view
Character:
Jedidiah
2024
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacatio ... view
Character:
Emcee
2024
Short film by Kamasi Washington to promote the track "Get Lit", featuring George Clinton and D Smoke, from his third album "Fearless Movement". ... view
Character:
Player
2021
A dystopian world filled with polar opposites seeks to find harmony through common threads. ... view
Character:
2021
In a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier, Akilla Brown captures a fifteen-year-old Jamaican boy in the aftermath of an armed robbery. Over one gr ... view
Character:
Akilla Brown
2021
My Blackest self, whose whitest death, is luxury. I am no stranger anymore. The world is love to me. ... view
Character:
2020
Chronicling the life of Lay'n Pipe, a 47 foot TopGun Cigarette speedboat, from its conception through the end of human civilization. It's not just a s ... view
Character:
2017
A modern-day movie adaptation of William Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream". The new version takes place in present-day Hollywood where fan ... view
Character:
Oberon
2016
Equal parts love story, road movie, and Americana, DREAMSTATES tells the haunting tale of two wayward souls (Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman) discove ... view
Character:
Original title: FLA (Faire: l'amour)
2014
Centers on a Parisian rapper who suddenly becomes deaf and his relationships. ... view
Character:
Shaban
Original title: Aujourd'hui
2013
Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life. ... view
Character:
Satché
2012
Brooklyn Boheme is a love letter to a vibrant African American artistic community who resided in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill Brooklyn during the 80's ... view
Character:
Self
2010
Rome, Paris, Marrakesh, Saint-Brieuc and New York, familiar decors of hotel rooms and prison cells... inmates, travesties, illegal immigrants relate t ... view
Character:
Self
2009
A man travels across New York City to get a Nathan's Famous hot dog. ... view
Character:
Rap Artist
2009
Copyright Criminals examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright ... view
Character:
Self
2006
Filmmaker Drew Thomas brings California's popular Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to the screen with a different kind of musical documentary ... view
Character:
Self
2005
Award winning documentary by Joslyn Rose Lyons exploring the relationship between spiritual connection and the creative process in hip-hop music. ... view
Character:
Self
2005
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he liv ... view
Character:
Lonnie (War Veteran)
Jun 2002 (first aired)
Follows a fair parole officer and his parolee who wants to go straight but his former business associates are after him. ... view
Character:
Greg Cooper (1 ep.)
2001
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own exp ... view
Character:
Ernie
2001
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicte ... view
Character:
Jean's Narration (voice)
Sep 2000 (first aired)
The series revolves around the friendship of four African-American women in different phases of their lives. They explore the many trials and tribulat ... view
Character:
Sivad (6 ep.)
Character:
King
1998
Raymond Joshua, a young black performance poet, is arrested and imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge in a Washington, D.C. jail. Although the confi ... view
Character:
Ray Joshua
1998
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother. ... view
Character:
Graduate Student
1998
Director Paul Devlin's fast-paced documentary follows four bards as they head to the 1996 National Poetry Slam in Portland, OR. The competition begins ... view
Character:
Self
1997
The police have three bookies under surveillance, but they escape and set up shop elsewhere. By chance, one of the police finds them; instead of turni ... view
Character:
Little Brother
Feb 1997 (first aired)
The Chris Rock Show is a late night comedy talk show featured on HBO. It was created by Chris Rock and featured various guests. The show won an Emmy f ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)