question: Mykelti Williamson is an American actor who portrayed Gabriel Maxson in what film adaption of the1985 play by American playwright August Wilson?
answer: Fences
context: Title: Fences (film)
  Passage: Fences is a 2016 American period drama film directed by and starring Denzel Washington and written by August Wilson, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name (Wilson died in 2005, but completed a screenplay before his death).  In addition to Washington, the film also stars Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson and Saniyya Sidney.
  Title: Joe Turner's Come and Gone
  Passage: Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a play by American playwright August Wilson.  It is the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience, "The Pittsburgh Cycle".  The play was first staged 1984 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut and opened on Broadway on 27 March 1988 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre—running for 105 performances.  Directed by Lloyd Richards, the cast included Delroy Lindo as Herald Loomis and television and movie star Angela Bassett, as Loomis's wife, Martha.
  Title: Mykelti Williamson
  Passage: Michael T. "Mykelti" Williamson (born March 4, 1960) is an American actor best known for his roles in the films "Forrest Gump" and "Con Air", and the television shows "Boomtown", "24", and "Justified".  In 2016, he portrayed Gabriel Maxson in Denzel Washington's acclaimed film adaptation of August Wilson's play "Fences", reprising his role from the 2010 Broadway revival.
  Title: Gem of the Ocean
  Passage: Gem of the Ocean is a play by American playwright August Wilson.  It is the first installment of his decade-by-decade, ten-play chronicle, "The Pittsburgh Cycle", dramatizing the African-American experience in the twentieth century.
  Title: Fences (play)
  Passage: Fences is a 1985 play by American playwright August Wilson.  Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle".  Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, "Fences" explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes.  The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play.  The play was first developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 1983 National Playwrights Conference and premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1985.
citations: Mykelti Williamson Fences (play)