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Michael Michele Williams (born August 30, 1966 in Evansville, Indiana) is an American film and television actress. She is the elder of two daughters. Her father, Jerry, who is white, is an entrepreneur; her mother, Thersa, who is African American, is a corporate manager. In high school she played volleyball and basketball, and ran track.
After high school, she moved to New York and quickly got commercial work. This led to a role in Eddie Murphy's 1989 film Harlem Nights. But that role dissolved when she spurned his advances and she filed a sexual harassment suit against him. Before she was offered that role, she appeared in music videos, some of which were by R&B crooner Freddie Jackson. After the suit in 1989 was ultimately settled out of court, She then went to work at Gap Inc to make ends meet. That ended in 1991, when she got her big break in the 1991 film New Jack City.
She is known for her role as Dr. Cleo Finch on the television series
ER and her role as Detective Rene Sheppard on the final season of
Homicide: Life on the Street. She also had a starring role in the short-lived television series
Kevin Hill, and a recurring role in
New York Undercover. Michele played the role of
Veronica Porsche Ali in the 2001 film,
Ali. She also appeared in an episode of
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, that aired early 2007.
She gave birth to a baby named J. Brandon on
December 21,
2004.
Selected filmography
