MLK DOD Keynote: Mark Willis
- Cost:
- Free
- Wyoming Union
- 1000 E University Ave, Laramie, 82071 United States
Additional Information
MLK DOD is pleased to announce keynote speaker actor Mark Willis, a UW communication graduate and a former member of the Cowboys football team. Willis is a Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actor and model.
His talk is Thursday, Feb. 6, at 7 p.m. in the Wyoming Union Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.
Willis, from Oak Park, Ill., played for the Cowboys as a defensive end from 2009-2012, lettering the final three years of his football career. He has appeared in several television shows and films. In 2018, he appeared in the critically acclaimed Marvel film “Black Panther,” performing stunts, which earned him and others in the film a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture. His other credits include the television shows “Shameless,” “Chicago PD,” “Chicago Fire” and “Empire.”