Jul 10, 2014

Allison Williams Bio

Allison Williams is an American actress, musician and comedian. Allison Williams was born April 13, 1988 in Hartford, Connecticut.  The daughter of Brian Williams,  NBC's Nightly News anchor had a passion for performing and initially wanted to be mostly involved with musical theater, but later her love of acting took over. She is most known for her role as Marnie Michaels for the HBO series, Girls.
She's the daughter of Brian Williams and Jane Gillan Stoddard, a TV producer, which doesn't exactly hurt considering that Hollywood thrives on nepotism. Because she was raised in a wealthy family, Williams attended Yale University, which she probably didn't have to spend a dime paying for or obtaining student loans for. 

While attending her prestigious university, Allie and was involved with the improvisational comedy troupe, Just Add Water and was in a YouTube web series called College Musical. While still an undergraduate at Yale University, Williams managed to get five million views on a YouTube video she made for her cover of Ke$ha’s song “Tik Tok”. In 2010, the skinny star graduated from Yale University with a BA in English.

One of Williams' most interesting roles has been starring as Kate Middletown, the Duchess of Cambridge, in her video series called Will & Kate: Before Happily Ever After, which is from her series called Funny or Die. One of her YouTube videos called “Nature Boy” with lyrics by Nat King Cole to the Mad Man theme song gave her widespread fame as she performed it, which then later convinced producer Judd Apatow that she should audition for the HBO series Girls and play as Marnie.

The 23 year-old auditioned for the role of Marnie and got the part. The show premiered in 2012. While filming the pilot for Girls, Williams met her fiancé Ricky Van Veen. Her passion for performing is slowly dying out as she said she would quit the business to have kids. We wouldn't mind if she did. Her acting skills are horrific!

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