Billy 'Sly' Williams

Billy 'Sly' Williams is an actor who started out in his native New York, where he booked a major guest spot on The Cosby Show. His first teachers were William Hickey and Earl Hyman, and he also studied at Uta Hagen's HB Studios. He then joined the New Federal Theater, which Woody King, Jr. founded, and trained in the Sanford Meisner technique with Ron Stetson before finishing that work in Los Angeles with Janet Alhanti. He had guest roles on series including Family Matters, Doogie Howser, M.D., NYPD Blue, The Practice, and Living Single. He moved into features with Predator 2. He landed the lead in the independent film Heads N' Tailz, from writer, producer, and director Stephen David Brooks, and later worked with Paul D. Hannah on titles including The Marriage Chronicles (2012) and 4 Play (2014). He also appeared on Californication and had been in more than 30 feature films.