Raymond T. Williams

Biography

Raymond T. Williams was born on March 27, 1972 in London to Jamaican parents and was raised in the Bronx, New York. While on a scholarship for Marine Chemistry at the University of Maryland at Eastern Shore he caught the acting bug and began doing theater. After doing theater in New York for a year and a half, he relocated to California to pursue t.v and film work, but it would take another eight years performing and studying theater under Jeff Goldblum at Playhouse West before those chances surfaced. Following the completion of many theater productions, Raymond appeared along side Jeff Goldblum and Scott Caan (another Playhouse alumni)in the indie movie Dallas 362 (2003) as well as a recurring on the very short lived "Method & Red" (2004) At the end of 2004, Raymond was chosen to participate in a CBS African-American showcase. He was 1 of 20 actors chosen out of 2,500 that auditioned. That led to his casting in the CBS pilot _Threshold_ . He then appeared in the ABC movie Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005) (TV) starring Academy Award winner Halle Berry. The production of "Ugly" and "Chicken" marked Raymond's commitment to theater each year. He will next be seen in the highly anticipated Fox-Searchlight's Phat Girlz (2006) starring Mo'Nique-Imis Jackson.