Allison Williams is an American actress.
She is the daughter of Jane Gillan Stoddard and NBC Nightly News anchor Brian
Williams.
Williams was raised in New Canaan, Connecticut. She attended Yale University and graduated in 2010. While at Yale,
Williams was a member of the improv comedy troupe
Just Add Water for four years, and was inducted to St. Elmo.
In 2010, she performed a mashup of âNature Boyâ set to RJD2â²s âA Beautiful Mineâ, the theme song for the television series
Mad Men. The YouTube video of the performance received widespread praise on the Internet, and convinced family friend 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 newly wed Kate Middleton. In 2011 she also starred as Kate Middleton in the TV series
Will & Kate: Before happily ever after.
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