Gary Anthony Williams

Gary Anthony Williams is one of those actors whose voice you have heard more times than you could possibly count. Born in Atlanta in 1966, he came up through improv and sketch, was a cast member on Blue Collar TV, has been a regular on the revived Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and co-founded the L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival.

His signature role is Uncle Ruckus on The Boondocks, a self-loathing bigot whose entire comic engine is that he is completely sincere. Play him with a wink and the satire collapses; Williams plays him with total conviction, which is the only reason the show can get away with him. The same commitment powers the other big parts: Bebop in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, General Warfield in StarCraft II, Dr. Tygan in XCOM 2, all men who take themselves extremely seriously in ridiculous circumstances.

On camera he has spent thirty years as the friendly heavy or the bewildered civil servant: Abe Kenarban across the run of Malcolm in the Middle, a jailed stranger in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, a detective in I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore, plus Boston Legal and The Soul Man. In animation he is simply everywhere, from Rick and Morty and Invincible to Love, Death & Robots, The Owl House, Solar Opposites and two Batman: The Dark Knight Returns films, where his Mutant Leader is made of pure gravel.