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Keith David Williams (born June 4, 1956) is an American actor. He is mostly known for his bass voice and screen presence in over 400 roles across film, stage, television, and interactive media. He has starred in such films as The Thing (1982), Platoon (1986), They Live (1988), Dead Presidents(1995), Armageddon (1998), There's Something About Mary (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Pitch Black (2000), Barbershop (2002), Crash (2004), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Cloud Atlas (2012), The Nice Guys (2016), Nope (2022), and American Fiction (2023). He starred as Elroy Patashnik in the sixth season of the NBC series Community (2015) and as Bishop James Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama Greenleaf (2016–2020). His Emmy-winning voice acting career includes narrating Ken Burns films such as The War (2007) and Muhammad Ali (2021). In film, he has voiced Dr. Facilier in The Princess and the Frog (2009) and the Cat in Coraline (2009). On television, he portrayed Goliath in Gargoyles (1994–1997), Al Simmons / Spawn in Todd McFarlane's Spawn (1997–1999), The Flame King in Adventure Time (2012–2017), President Andre Curtis in Rick and Morty (2015–) and its upcoming spin-off President Curtis, King Andrias in Amphibia (2020–2022), Dr. Tenma in Pluto (2023), and Husk in Hazbin Hotel (2024–). Video game roles include the Arbiter Thel 'Vadamee in the Halo franchise (2004–2015), Julius Little and himself in the Saints Row series (2006–2017), Captain Anderson in the Mass Effect series (2007–2013), Chaos in Dissidia Final Fantasy (2008), Sergeant Foley in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009), and Commander Zavala in Destiny 2: The Final Shape (2024), which he assumed after the death of Lance Reddick in March 2023. He was part of the cast of The Nightmare Before Christmas live concert in October 2025, where he voiced Oogie Boogie, taking over the role from his longtime original voice actor, Ken Page, following his death in September 2024. In July 2025, David was selected to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2026. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keith David, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
She fell from a star. She learned what love sounds like from a child who had never heard music. Starfall is an original Broadway musical about a celestial being named Lyra who falls to Earth and must learn to be human within a single year or lose the ability to return to her realm. Her guide is an eight-year-old girl named Iris who is profoundly deaf and experiences music through vibration and light rather than sound — which transforms Lyra's entire understanding of what her voice actually is. The musical has fifteen original songs spanning from Lyra's celestial arias to Iris's vibration-pieces (performed with the full orchestra visible and conducted through lighting cues synchronized to the beat). The central love story is between Lyra and Finn, a human musician who is grieving the loss of his ability to hear following an accident, who falls in love with someone who cannot explain why sound matters and accidentally teaches him to hear differently. Runtime: 2h 45min. Act One Highlights 'The Fall' (Lyra descending — the musical's opening number, pure voice over minimal orchestration). 'What Is This?' (Lyra encountering Earth's sensory world). 'Iris Speaks' (the first Iris-Lyra duet, performed in ASL and song simultaneously). Act Two Highlights 'The Year Is Almost Gone' (the show's emotional center — Lyra understanding what staying would cost). 'One More Sound' (Finn and Lyra's Act Two duet). 'Starfall (Reprise)' (the finale, the full company, the theatre dark except for starlight).
