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Melissa Harris-Perry: Welcome back to The Takeaway. I'm Melissa Harris-Perry. You probably know Jesse Williams from TV Little Fires Everywhere, noun, and to many fans, he will always be Dr. Jackson Avery in those powder sky scrubs of Gray's Anatomy.
Jesse Williams: [unintelligible ] Jackson Avery. Originally from Bald Street. Hold on, hold on, wait, like Harper, Avery, actually.
Melissa Harris-Perry: Now Williams has leveraged our enthusiasm for the characters he plays to highlight social justice issues he cares about deeply. Like in this moment at the BET Awards, when he spoke out against police brutality against Adj Americans.
Jesse Williams: There has been no war that we include not fought and died on the front lines there. There has been no job, we haven't done, there's no tax. They haven't levied against us. We've paid all of them, but freedom is somehow always conditional here. You're free. They keep telling us.
Melissa Harris-Perry: Today, William's acting and his commitment to social justice have appear together in a medium that is new for him. The Broad
Who is Jesse Williams dating? Everything we know
After stepping away from Grey's Anatomy,Jesse Williams has joined the cast of Only Murders in the Building for season three. Introduced as the brooding documentary-maker Tobert, fans have already spied some chemistry between the character and Mabel Mora (played by Selena Gomez). But away from the show, is Jesse himself linked to anyone? Here's what we know…
Is Jesse Williams in a relationship?
Currently, Jesse Williams appears to be in a relationship with Ciarra Pardo. While it's unclear when the couple first started dating, Jesse was pictured alongside the Art Director in , so they've known each other for at least six years.
According to Radar Online, court documents obtained from Jesse's custody battle with ex-wife Aryn Drake-Lee describe Ciarra as his "longtime girlfriend".
The couple has always kept their romance intimate, but it looks like Jesse and Ciarra are still going strong. In June, Just Jared published photos of the pair heading to an Italian res
Jesse Williams
I don't know anything about Jesse Williams so I Googled him and then searched AGC Webpages for his name. His divorce was announced in April and it looks pretty unsightly. Coincidentally, there has been a blind item about him every month since then.
April
[quote]Events in the next few weeks should unseal the door for this network on screen couple to be one step closer to a real life couple. You perceive, from that ABC show. No, not OUAT. Jesse Williams/Sarah Drew (Dr. Jackson Avery/Dr. April Kepner "Grey’s Anatomy")
May
[quote]MET GALA: This A- list mostly television actress would have killed for that tall of a listing a year ago. She hasn’t been A list anything in a decade. She is still relatively immature because she started so adj in life. Anyway, she always gives her B list actress girlfriend crap for dating married guys all the time. It turns out that our A- lister is not above it either. She was texting a very very married guy last night and gushing about how much she enjoyed being with him and couldn’t wait to see him again. Mandy Moore ("This Is Us")/Minka Kelly (Je
'Grey's Anatomy' star Jesse Williams makes a case for why straight actors can play gay roles in his Broadway debut, 'Take Me Out'
On the surface, Jesse Williams is not much other from Darren Lemming, the baseball superstar he plays in "Take Me Out."
He's biracial and charming and handsome, and for much of his life, he played baseball. One or all of those things combined has probably helped him enter and thrive in the elite circles he frequents now as an actor and producer, who's perhaps most recognizable for his fan-favorite role as Dr. Jackson Avery on ABC's hit medical drama "Grey's Anatomy."
Despite these commonalities, the media, including the New York Times, has wondered whether Williams, a straight actor, should play a gay character. He is more talented than the material he's gotten in the past on "Grey's Anatomy," but it's a valid question, particularly given how frequently Williams is marketed to women as a dreamy (and very heterosexual) heartthrob.
It's a conversation that has been coming up regularly in Hollywood as more q