Allison Williams Biography – Allison Williams Wiki
Allison Williams born Allison Howell Williams is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She is best known for her role as Marnie Michaels on the HBO comedy-drama series, Girls (2012). After a number of minor roles in television, she played Marnie Michaels in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012–2017), which earned her a Critics’ Choice Award nomination, and the title role in Peter Pan Live! (2014). She rose to widespread recognition for starring as Rose Armitage in the horror film Get Out (2017), for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. She subsequently appeared as Kit Snicket in the series A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017–2019).
She 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. In 2010, she 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. She 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, she 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. She 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.
She is an ambassador for Horizons National. She led 2016, 10 Days of Giving, campaign to raise awareness and funds for the organization’s educational goals and was expected to revisit the same role in 2017. She has also done work with Product Red to fund HIV/AIDS programs in Africa and is 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.
She 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. She next appeared in the Swedish thriller film Horizon Line, which was released in 2020.
In 2020, she Reteamed with Blumhouse Productions to star and executive produce M3GAN. She went to study at the New Canaan Country School and Greenwich Academy. She also attended Yale University, where she majored in English. She graduated with a degree in English in 2010. She was a member of Morse College and St. Elmo secret society.
Allison Williams Age
She was born on April 13, 1988. She was born and brought up in New Canaan, Connecticut, United States.
Allison Williams Husband
She started dating Ricky Van Veen, co-founder of CollegeHumor, in 2011. They became engaged in 2014, and married on September 19, 2015, in a private ceremony in Saratoga, Wyoming. Their wedding ceremony was officiated by Tom Hanks. She and her husband were residents of the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. On June 27, 2019, Van Veen and Williams issued a joint statement of their divorce.
Allison Williams Family
She is the daughter of former NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams and television producer Jane Gillan Stoddard. She has a brother, Douglas, who is three years younger than her.
Allison Williams Height
She stands at a listed height of 5 feet 5 inches( 1.67 meters) tall.
Allison Williams Nationality
She is of American nationality. She, however, traces her roots back to Irish, Swedish, German, English, Scottish, and distant French descent.
Allison Williams Instagram
Her Instagram handle is @aw.
