Billy Dee Williams

Acting · Born 1937-04-06 · New York City, New York, USA

Biography

William December "Billy Dee" Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, voice actor, and artist. He is best known as Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise, first in the early 1980s, and nearly forty years later in The Rise of Skywalker (2019), marking one of the longest intervals between onscreen portrayals of a character by the same actor in American film history.

Known for

• STZ (2025)
• Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount (2023)
• Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022)
• Stallone: Frank, That Is (2021)
• The Skywalker Legacy (2020)
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
• Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Adventure Awaits (2019)
• Quincy (2018)
• Dirty Dancing (2017)
• I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
• The Man in 3B (2015)
• The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2011)
• Barry Munday (2010)
• 3 Ways to Get a Husband (2010)
• Fanboys (2009)
• Pitching Man: Satchel Paige Defying Time (2009)
• Diary of a Single Mom (2009)
• iMurders (2008)
• Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight (2008)
• Constellation (2007)
• Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror (2006)
• Merry F#%$in' Christmas (2005)
• When Star Wars Ruled the World (2004)
• Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy (2004)