Williams hosted The Montel Williams Show, a nationally syndicated talk show by CBS Paramount Television, for 17 years, taping over 3,500 shows and interviewing more than 30,000 guests focusing on key social issues involving ordinary people coping with extraordinary circumstances. He received a Daytime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host; and later his show was nominated for Outstanding Talk Show two years in a row.

Over the past year Williams hosted a daily syndicated radio talk show Montel Across America. The program provided insight into social, political and economic issues along with information on health and wellness. The show received tremendous response, however its parent company Air America went out of business in January 2010.

Battling Multiple Sclerosis daily, Williams has built the Living Well with Montel brand, by incorporating life experience and the information he has accumulated through personal account and professional opinions. Living Well is focused on products that can help consumers live better physically, emotionally, financially and spiritually. The premier Living Well product, the Healthmaster Emulsifier, was launched in 2009. Multiple health and wellness products under the brand will be available in the marketplace in the Spring of 2010.

In January 2006, Williams became the national spokesman for the Partnership for Prescription Assistance, a patient assistance clearinghouse program that has matched over 6 million Americans to public and private patient assistance programs providing them with more than $13 billion dollars of free or nearly free prescriptions.

Williams has been a prolific author of uplifting and practical books, of which four became bestsellers. They include Living Well Emotionally: Breakthrough to a Life of Happiness; Living Well: 21 Days to Transform Your Life, Supercharge Your Health, and Feel Spectacular; Climbing Higher; BodyChange; Life Lessons and Reflections; A Dozen Ways to Sunday: Stories of Hope and Courage; Mountain Get Out of My Way: Life Lessons and Learned Truths; and Practical Parenting. 

Williams enjoys acting and performs whenever his schedule permits. Over the past few years, viewers may have seen him on hit television programs including “All My Children,” “American Dreams” and “JAG.” Most recently Williams contributed to the long running dramatic series “Guiding Light” playing “Clayton Boudreau”, which landed him a nomination in 2009 for a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Series. He also starred in the critically acclaimed off-Broadway play The Exonerated. Williams also starred and executive produced a prime time network series for CBS, The Education Of Matt Waters.

Shortly after being diagnosed with MS in 1999, Williams established the Montel Williams MS Foundation to further the scientific study of MS, provide financial assistance to select organizations and institutions conducting research, raise national awareness, and educate the public. The MWMSF has granted over $1.5 million dollars to research and has supported a study done at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, which discovered an MS gene.

Williams began his professional career in the US Marine Corps in 1974 when he enlisted in his hometown of Baltimore after graduating high school. After six months, he was meritoriously promoted twice, and in 1975, became the first black Marine selected to the Naval Academy Prep School in Newport, Rhode Island. Upon graduation from prep school, Williams received a Presidential Appointment to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., where he studied Mandarin Chinese, and graduated with a degree in general engineering and a minor in international security affairs. He was then selected as special duty intelligence officer, specializing in cryptology.

Williams is the proud father of four children and resides in New York with his wife Tara.