It is in Chicago that the actor Jesse Williams was born on August 5, 1981. After graduating with a degree in film and history, he became a high school teacher in Philadelphia.
He studied acting in parallel to his work and in 2005 he participated in the New York Actors Showcase, a casting organized by ABC. He was one of the 14 people selected out of the 800 candidates who tried their luck. His career was then launched and he appeared in several television series such as Law and Order in 2006 and Greek in 2008.
Jesse Williams was not long before he was recognized on the ABC channel. Since 2009, he has been in the limelight at Seattle Grace Hospital in the series Grey’s Anatomy, where he plays the sexy Dr. Jackson Avery. He arrived as a recurring character in season 6 and was promoted to lead character the following season.
Building on his success, the actor landed the role of activist James Lawson in The Butler alongside Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey in 2013. A role tailor-made because the actor is actively committed to racial equality in the United States. He has written several articles on the subject for CNN and The Huffington Post.
On the heart side, the actor is married to Aryn Drake-Lee since 2012, a real estate agent and is the father of a little girl, Sadie, born in 2013 and a little boy, Maceo, born in 2015. After ten years of love, the couple separates in April 2017.
Absent from Grey’s Anatomy for a year, Jesse Williams has not been idle since he left behind the role of the handsome Dr. Jackson Avery.
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