ACTOR

Cress Williams

1970 - Today

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Cress Williams (born July 26, 1970) is an American actor, known for his roles in Prison Break and Close to Home. His most recent roles include Mayor Lavon Hayes on The CW series Hart of Dixie and the title character on The CW's Black Lightning. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cress Williams has received more than 2,982,086 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Cress Williams is the 10,444th most popular actor (down from 8,458th in 2019), the 6,186th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,133rd in 2019) and the 313th most popular German Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 36.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Cress Williams ranks 10,444 out of 13,578Before him are Charles Esten, Denise Nickerson, Erica Leerhsen, Jennifer Gareis, Jim Rash, and Anna Thalbach. After him are Ray Sharkey, Penelope Milford, Anna Kovalchuk, Urmila Matondkar, Callum Blue, and Roger Livesey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Cress Williams ranks 696Before him are Per Frandsen, Thomas Lennon, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Jasna Fazlić, Jennifer Gareis, and Mike Brown. After him are Dean DeBlois, Gayle Forman, Szilveszter Csollány, Sergei Ovchinnikov, Morgan Johansson, and Mohammed Mourhit.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Cress Williams ranks 6,186 out of 7,253Before him are Steffi Jones (1972), Stefan Kapičić (1978), Zlatan Bajramović (1979), Andreas Görlitz (1982), Roland Schimmelpfennig (1967), and Anna Thalbach (1973). After him are Anna Kovalchuk (1977), Eva Pfaff (1961), Arnd Schmitt (1965), Marina Kiehl (1965), Ralf Falkenmayer (1963), and Harald Czudaj (1963).

Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Cress Williams ranks 313Before him are Katharina Schüttler (1979), Maren Eggert (1974), Hannah Herzsprung (1981), Sophie Charlotte (1989), Stefan Kapičić (1978), and Anna Thalbach (1973). After him are Anna Kovalchuk (1977), Pia Wurtzbach (1989), Q'orianka Kilcher (1990), Tamera Mowry (1978), Mika'ela Fisher (1975), and Maria Simon (1976).