Mykelti Williamson
Department: Acting
Biography
Michael T. 'Mykelti' Williamson (born March 4, 1957) is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford 'Bubba' Blue in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, as Detective Bobby 'Fearless' Smith in the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful crime drama Boomtown, and recently for appearing as the head of CTU for season 8 of the hit TV series 24.
Known For
Forrest Gump
1994
Lucky Number Slevin
2006
Heat
1995
Free Willy
1993
Species II
1998
Con Air
1997
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004
After the Sunset
2004
August Rush
2007
Waiting to Exhale
1995
Miracle Mile
1989
Ali
2001
12 Angry Men
1997
Primary Colors
1998
North of the 10
2022
Wildcats
1986
Police Story: Monster Manor
1988
The Final Destination
2009
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
Soul of the Game
1996
Have a Little Faith
2011
Twist of Faith
2013
Buffalo Soldiers
1997
Double Tap
1997
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
1994
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
1997
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
1995
The Making of 'Heat'
2005
Black Dynamite
2009
American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective
2022
Our America
2002
The First Power
1990
Hollows Grove
2014
The Holiday Stocking
2022
You Talkin' to Me?
1987
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999
Sunnyside
1979
Convergence
2017
The Purge: Election Year
2016
Fences
2016
Three Kings
1999
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
1984
The Delta Force
1986
Number One with a Bullet
1987
Fatwa
2006
High School
2010
Streets of Fire
1984
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
Other Women's Children
1993
Don't Let Go
2019
Thriller
2018
Spinning Into Butter
2009
Canal Street
2019
Saint Judy
2018
Run the Race
2019
A Killer Among Us
1990
Gideon
1998
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005
ATL
2006
Emperor
2020
The 24th
2020
Vice
2008
Holiday Heart
2000
Butter
2020
Clean
2022
Desperate Lives
1982
The Last Rodeo
2025
Unstoppable
2024
ATL 2: The Homecoming
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Is God Is
2026
They Fight
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Alice
1976
Third Watch
1999
Kidnapped
2006
Psych
2006
Justice
2006
Boomtown
2002
Starsky & Hutch
1975
Monk
2002
Miami Vice
1984
China Beach
1988
CSI: NY
2004
Hill Street Blues
1981
Raines
2007
Cover Up
1984
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Bay City Blues
1983
The White Shadow
1978
The New WKRP in Cincinnati
1991
Midnight Caller
1988
The Bronx Zoo
1987
The Hoop Life
1999
The Outer Limits
1995
The Righteous Apples
1980
Freebie and the Bean
1980
J.J. Starbuck
1987
Justified
2010
Scorpion
2014
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021
The Fugitive
2000
Rebel
2017
Lethal Weapon
2016
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Miami Vice
1984
Designated Survivor
2016
Fallout
2024
Rizzoli & Isles
2010
Insecure
2016
Touch
2012
Touched by an Angel
1994
Chicago P.D.
2014
The Good Wife
2009
Hawaii Five-0
2010
Government Cheese
2025
24
2001
Untitled Snowfall Spinoff
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