American actress Allison Howell Williams was born on April 13, 1988. She played Marnie Michaels in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012–2017), for which she was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award, and she also played the lead in Peter Pan Live! (2014). She rose to fame as Rose Armitage in the 2017 horror movie Get Out and has subsequently played Kit Snicket in the television series A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017–2019).
How Was Allison Williams’ Early Life?
The daughter of former NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams and TV producer Jane Gillan Stoddard, Allison Williams was born and reared in New Canaan, Connecticut. Doug, her brother, is three years younger than she is. Williams went to Greenwich Academy and New Canaan Country School. She later majored in English at Yale University and was a part of the St. Elmo secret society and Morse College.
How Did Allison Williams Start Her Career?
In addition, Allison Williams spent four years performing with the improv comedy group Just Add Water and appeared in the YouTube series College Musical. Sam Tsui was a part of the project, which Kurt Hugo Schneider supervised, and both men attended Yale. In 2010, she received her English degree. In 2010, Williams performed a mashup of “Nature Boy” and “A Beautiful Mine,” the Mad Men theme song by RJD2. The performance’s YouTube video garnered a lot of positive attention online.
Williams was cast by Judd Apatow in the HBO series Girls, which debuted on April 15, 2012, and received mixed reviews. Williams drew accolades for her performance in the show, and in 2016 she was nominated for the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Williams portrayed Cheryl in the CollegeHumor sitcom Jake and Amir from 2011 until 2012. She co-starred with Christopher Walken as Captain Hook in the musical Peter Pan Live! on NBC on December 4, 2014.
Williams made an appearance in Past Forward in November 2016, a David O. Russell and Prada-produced short film. Williams created several Funny or Die skits with Oliver Jackson-Cohen, an English actor and model, portraying Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Middleton as newlywed.
Williams appeared in the slasher movie Get Out in 2017. After seeing her performance in Peter Pan Live!, director Jordan Peele was sure she was the ideal, Rose. She was given a part by Peele designed to “Williams later commented, “I was hoping for a job that would weaponize everything people take for granted about me.
So I immediately joined up for it.” Williams got numerous accolades and nominations for her performances in the movie, including the MTV Award for Best Villain and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The acting ensemble also received appreciation for their work.
Williams was chosen to play Charlotte in the Netflix horror movie The Perfection, released on May 24, 2019, to rave reviews. Her performance was praised as “compelling.” Throughout the second and third seasons of the Netflix comedy-drama series A Series of Unfortunate Events, she was cast as Kit Snicket. The Swedish thriller Horizon Line, released in 2020, was Williams’ next cinematic appearance. Williams reconnected with Blumhouse Productions in 2020 to star in and executive produces M3GAN.
How Is Allison Williams’ Personal Life?
In 2011, Allison Williams started dating CollegeHumor co-founder Ricky Van Veen. They got married on September 19, 2015, in Saratoga, Wyoming, after getting engaged in 2014. The event was presided over by Tom Hanks. Back then, she and her husband resided in Manhattan’s Chelsea district.
Van Veen and Williams announced their separation in a joint statement on June 27, 2019. Late in 2019, Alexander Dreymon, a German actor, started dating Allison Williams. They became friends while making Horizon Line. Arlo, a son, was welcomed late in 2021. It was revealed that the couple got engaged in December 2022.