# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-d-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:04:11.818Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-d-williams"
name: "J. D. Williams"
slug: "j-d-williams"
description: "Darnell \"J. D.\" Williams is an American actor known for his starring roles in the HBO television series Oz as Kenny Wangler, The Wire as Bodie Broadus and Pootie Tang as Froggy, Surviving Family (2012) as Bobby, The Good Wife (2010–2015) as Dexter, and in the main cast of Saints & Sinners. He also starred in Blood Brother (2018) as Kayvon."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/xkvqaI7rOFehLIiJTA3laJpYVO9.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1978-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.588764
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412907/"
    handle:    "nm0412907"
sources:
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    title: "J. D. Williams"
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    title: "J. D. Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "J. D. Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "J.D. Williams"
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    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump