![]() He continued painting his work has since been shown in galleries and collections worldwide. To fund his art supplies he returned to acting, including stage, films, and television. He later graduated from The High School of Music & Art, then won a painting scholarship to the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, where he won a Hallgarten Prize for painting in the mid-1950s. In 1945, he made his Broadway theatre debut at age seven in The Firebrand of Florence. Williams was born in New York City, and raised with his twin sister Loretta in Harlem. He is best known as Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise, first in the early 1980s for The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi, and thirty-six years later in The Rise of Skywalker (2019), marking one of the longest intervals between onscreen portrayals of a character by the same actor in American film history. ![]() ![]() (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor and novelist. William December " Billy Dee" Williams Jr.
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