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Tyler James Williams

American actor (born 1992)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Tyler James Williams is an American actor and rapper. He began his career as a child actor, making several appearances on Saturday Night Live, Little Bill, and Sesame Street. Williams later rose to prominence for playing the role of Chris Rock on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris (2005–2009). Following this, he starred as songwriter Cyrus DeBarge in the Disney Channel film Let It Shine (2012), and Noah on the AMC horror drama television series The Walking Dead (2014–15).

Editorial summary

“Tyler James Williams” enters the record as american actor (born 1992). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tyler, James and Williams can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2009, 2012, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tyler, James and Williams.
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Why this record matters

“Tyler James Williams” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tyler, James and Williams provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2005, 2009, 2012 and 2014.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Tyler James Williams” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.