Mykelti Williamsom

.A steadily working television actor beginning in the 1980s, Mykelti Williamson gained widespread recognition with his role as sweet, simple, shrimp enthusiast Bubba Blue in the Academy Award-winning movie "Forrest Gump" (1994).

Williamson's film career got a major boost in 1993 when he was cast as the kindly social worker who sends a troublemaking teen to work at a theme park where he then befriends a giant whale in "Free Willy" (1993), a certifiable family blockbuster