Allison Williams

Allison Williams

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Allison Williams (born April 13, 1988) is an American actress, comedian, and musician. She stars as Marnie Michaels on the HBO television series Girls.

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Williams was born in Connecticut, and is the daughter of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and Jane Gillan Stoddard, a TV producer. On her mother's side, she is a three times great-granddaughter of the abolitionist Rev. Owen Lovejoy.[citation needed] Williams was raised in New Canaan, Connecticut. She graduated from Yale University in 2010. She carpooled to high school with Ali Fox, an interest rate salesperson at Citigroup. While at Yale, Williams was a member of the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water for four years, as well as being a part of the YouTube web series College Musical, and was inducted into St. Elmo.

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Career[edit]
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, and convinced Judd Apatow that she should be given a part in the HBO TV series Girls. She was cast shortly after and credited her experience at Just Add Water for passing the audition.Girls premiered on April 15, 2012.

Williams wrote a series of Funny or Die sketches, in which she
starred as newlywed Kate Middleton with British actor and model Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. Williams appeared in the third season of The League, as Danielle in the episode "The Guest Bong."

Williams has appeared as a recurring character, Cheryl, in the CollegeHumor series Jake and Amir.HERO DYD