Allison Williams
Allison Williams was born in New Canaan, Connecticut, United States on April 13th, 1988 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 36, Allison Williams biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Allison Howell Williams (born April 13, 1988) is an American actress and singer who appeared on HBO's comedy-drama series Girls and earned critical acclaim for her role in the 2017 horror film Get Out.
Early life
Williams was born and raised in New Canaan, Connecticut, the niece of former NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams and TV producer Jane Gillan Stoddard. Doug, she has a brother who was three years old when she was younger. Williams attended New Canaan Country School and Greenwich Academy. She completed Yale University, majoring in English, and was a member of Morse College and St. Elmo's mystery society.
Personal life
In 2011, Williams began dating Ricky Van Veen, co-founder of CollegeHumor. They got engaged in 2014 and married on September 19, 2015 in Saratoga, Wyoming, at a private ceremony. The service was officiated by Tom Hanks. She and her then-husband lived in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. Van Veen and Williams released a joint statement of their separation on June 27, 2019.
Williams began dating German actor Alexander Dreymon in late 2019. When filming Horizon Line, they met. They welcomed a son in late 2021.
Career
Williams was also a member of the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water for four years and acted in the YouTube series College Musical. The project featured Sam Tsui and was directed by Kurt Hugo Schneider, both of whom attended Yale. She graduated with a degree in English in 2010.
In 2010, Williams performed a mashup of "Nature Boy" set to RJD2's "A Beautiful Mine", the theme song for the television series Mad Men. The YouTube video of the performance received widespread praise on the Internet.
Judd Apatow cast Williams in the HBO series Girls, which premiered on April 15, 2012, generating mixed reviews. Williams received praise for her role in the series, and in 2016 she received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
From 2011 to 2012, Williams appeared as Cheryl in the CollegeHumor series Jake and Amir. On December 4, 2014, she starred in the title role on NBC's live television presentation of the musical Peter Pan Live!, opposite Christopher Walken as Captain Hook.
In November 2016, Williams appeared in Past Forward, a short film collaboration between David O. Russell and Prada. Williams wrote a series of Funny or Die sketches, in which she starred as newlywed Kate Middleton, with English actor and model Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.
Williams is an ambassador for Horizons National. She led the 2016 "10 Days of Giving" campaign to raise awareness and funds for the organization's educational goals and is expected to revisit this role in 2017. She has also done work with Product Red to fund HIV/AIDS programs in Africa, and is currently involved with the Transformational Prison Project as an advocate for criminal justice reform. In 2017, she talked about her political views, advocacy, millennial activism, and women in Hollywood on the Politico podcast, Women Rule.
In 2017, Williams starred in the horror film Get Out. Director Jordan Peele was convinced she was right for the role of Rose after seeing her performance in Peter Pan Live!. Peele had cast her in a role made to "disorient audiences", and Williams later said "I was looking for a role that would weaponize everything that people take for granted about me. So I instantly signed on to it." The film received critical acclaim, and the performances of the acting ensemble and Williams were praised, earning her several awards and nominations, including being nominated for the MTV Award for Best Villain and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Williams was cast in the role of Charlotte on the Netflix horror film, The Perfection, which was released on May 24, 2019, to positive reviews, and her performance was called "compelling". She was cast in the role of Kit Snicket throughout the second and third seasons of the Netflix comedy-drama series A Series of Unfortunate Events. Williams next appeared in the Swedish thriller film Horizon Line, which released in 2020.
In 2020, Williams Reteamed with Blumhouse Productions to star and executive produce M3GAN.