Zachary Isaiah Williams

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Zachary Isaiah Williams
Born	1994 Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Years active	1998 - present

Zachary Isaiah Williams (born 1994) is an American child actor, who co-starred in the Nickelodeon series Romeo!. Prior to working with Romeo in the series, he co-starred with him and Jessica Alba in the 2003 film Honey. His other television credits include Becker, Roswell, For Your Love and The Parkers. He is also well known for mostly playing his role as Lil Romeo's little brother.

He also had a small part in the film Star Trek: Insurrection. His recent role was in the film God's Gift.

His brother is Oren Williams who co-starred in the film Rebound.

[edit] Biography

A professional model since the age of 3, Zachary has modeled for such heavy weights, as Nike, Mattel, Macy's, Warner Brothers and Disney. At age 4, Zachary starred in a national commercial for Carnation Instant Breakfast and soon after appeared in the Oxygen Network original sketch comedy series Without Pants, twice. Since those humble beginnings, he has not stopped working. After booking national spots for Fisher Price, Fox Kids, and McDonalds, this little tyke is having a ball.

What Williams enjoys most about working is having his own dressing room. "I love when I have my own trailer", he says. At age 6, he co-starred with Ted Danson in CBS's Becker as well as CBS's mid-season replacement, Kate Brasher, starring Mary Stuart Masterson, and Hector Elizondo. Zachary is indeed one great little actor. He has since added a few more credits to his little resume. Filming more commercials, including Hasbro for Monsters Inc., and co-starring on WB's teen hit, Roswell as well as UPN's hot show, The Parkers with Mo'Nique and Countess Vaughn, in which he portrayed Junie, a miniature hood-rat in the making. Zachary also stars in the first Nickelodeon original movie of the week Maniac McGee with Kyla Pratt and Michael Angarano. It didn't take him long before landing his first television pilot, Romeo! for Nickelodeon.

His most exciting role to play was that of Lil' Romeo's lil'brother, Gary. Gary was the businessman of the family who also happened to be the D.J. in the families band. He also plays as Lil' Romeo brother again in the 2007 film Crush On U.

Zachary shot his very first feature film lead in 2002; in Universal Studios', "Honey". Zachary has received raved reviews for his portrayal of Raymond, a sad - sweet gifted kid from the hood who forms a special friendship with Honey (Jessica Alba); The Toronto Sun writes, "A charismatic child actor, he steals every second of screen time he gets," The Washington Post writes," Williams is authentic and adorable" and The Hollywood Reporter writes, "The most riveting performance...Williams owns every scene he's in." The film also stars Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer and Lonette McKee and is directed by music video famed director, Bille Woodruff.

When not before the camera, Zachary likes to give back to the community; whether it's bowling for AIDS, playing basketball for Autism, or speaking to a group of 4th graders at a local school.

At home, Zachary, (often referred to as Pee, short for Sweet Pee) enjoys art, inventing and has a large collection of hot wheels (over 7,000). He also has fun joking around with his big brother, Oren Williams teasing his cat, and shooting 3-pointers for his traveling basketball team.