Nigel Shawn Williams

Nigel Shawn Williams is a Canadian actor and theater director from Toronto who came to acting through the stage. Born in Jamaica, he moved to Canada as a child and graduated from the University of Windsor in 1990. He took the Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1995 for playing Paul in Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare, and won another Dora in 2012 for playing Lincoln in Obsidian Theatre's Topdog/Underdog. He was nominated again in 2013 for his Henry in Canadian Stage's Race, and won the Dora for outstanding direction of a play or musical in 2006 for directing Colleen Wagner's The Monument. His screen work includes the television series The Famous Jett Jackson, The Jane Show and The Listener, and the films Jett Jackson: The Movie (2001) and Brown Girl Begins (2017).