Mykelti Williamson
Mykelti Williamson ( born March 4, 1957 in St. Louis, Missouri as Michael T. Williamson ) is an American actor.
Life
Mykelti Williamson Michael T. Williamson was born from 1983 to 1985 now married to Olivia Brown from 1989 to 1994 Cheryl Chisholm and has been since 1997 with Sandra Spriggs, with whom he has two children.
His career began in 1981 in the television series The Righteous Apples, he had more appearances in Starsky & Hutch, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, China Beach and Midnight Caller. He made his feature film debut in 1984 in Streets of Fire, but his breakthrough did not come until ten years later when he Benjamin Buford "Bubba " Blue embodied in the movie Forrest Gump by Robert Zemeckis.
For this role he was nominated for the award for "Best Breakthrough Performance " of the MTV Movie Awards 1994.