Melissa Williams who is a cast member of the popular show Ruthless produced by Tyler Perry on the BET network is no doubt mastering her character as Ruth, a woman who kidnaps her daughter to join her in the dark underworld of a religious cult. Melissa has been in other TV series The Oval, If Loving You Is Wrong, Rosewood and many more. I was excited to speak with her because it’s also one of my favorite shows. Melissa has worked hard to get where she is and talks about how she got started in acting. “I got started in acting around nine years old. My first production was an Easter Play. From then on I told my mom that’s what I wanted to do”. From there her mom put her in different dance classes and they found a local theater company that put-on plays. She did musicals, got vocal training and stage experience from being a part of that company. Melissa’s first acting gig was The Game (TV Series) in 2015 which was another popular TV show that aired on the BET network. Because Melissa plays the role of Ruth so well, I had to ask her if she can identify with the character? “One of my cast mates said he feels our characters are an exaggerated version of ourselves. I said I’m not an exaggerated version, we are alike in the way we’ll fight for what we truly believe in.,” said Melissa. Melissa enjoys working with the cast and feels honored to work with Tyler Perry. “He is an extreme blessing and one of a kind, first he’s the first black man to open up the largest production studio in the world; to be in proximity with him is like a god sent no one else could orchestrate something so perfectly and divine,” said Melissa. Because Melissa plays the role of Ruth so well, I had to ask her if she can identify with the character? “One of my cast mates said he feels our characters are an exaggerated version of ourselves. I said I’m not an exaggerated version, we are alike in the way we’ll fight for what we truly believe in.,” said Melissa. Melissa enjoys working with the cast and feels honored to work with Tyler Perry. “He is an extreme blessing and one of a kind, first he’s the first black man to open up the largest production studio in the world; to be in proximity with him is like a god sent no one else could orchestrate something so perfectly and divine,” said Melissa. Melissa admits the transition from her hometown of Oklahoma to Atlanta and then California was not an easy one “the journey was difficult, but I benefited from everything negative and positive. I’ll just say it wasn’t easy,” said Melissa. Melissa cannot imagine herself doing anything else; she looks forward to a long career span in the entertainment industry. When Melissa is not acting, she enjoys spending her time volunteering one of her concerns are the homeless people on skid-row in California she remembers a statement EarthQuake the comedian made stating “it’s funny how LA got all the homeless off the streets for the super bowl but, they won’t get them out of there every day”. The homeless is a passionate subject for Melissa. She is prepared to use her platform to do what she can to help. On the flip side for people who don’t know Melissa, she considers herself very goofy, she loves to laugh, and she loves comedy. Make sure you catch season three of Ruthless the show will keep you on the edge of your seat leaving you hungry for more.
Melissa L. Williams
shares insight on her role in Ruthless and how she got started as an actress written by: Gloria Peebles
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