Allison Williams
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American actress, comedian and musician
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 21
Top works
- Irregardless
- Fighting to Win Child Custody
- Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes
- Ninja CREAMi Cookbook for Beginners 2022
- Full Circle
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1932-02-08
Discography
- The John Towner Touch1957
- World on a String1957
- Rhythm in Motion1961
- How to Steal a Million1966
- Williams: Sinfonietta for Wind Ensemble / Penderecki: Pittsburgh Overture / Mayuzumi: Music with Sculpture1970
- Music for Cello and Piano1974
- Jaws: Original Motion Picture Score1975
- Music From John Williams' Classic Film Scores: Close Encounters of the Third Kind / Star Wars1978
- Pops in Space1980
- Pops on the March1980
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,708
- Total plays
- 16,424
Tags
Singer/songwriter and traditional musician Allison Williams plays old-time clawhammer banjo in a modern context. A native of the Arkansas Ozarks, Allison got her start as a punk rock musician before rediscovering her musical roots. Several years in the mountains of North Carolina educated her in Southern banjo styles, especially the fast, distinctive styles of Hobart Smith and Wade Ward. In 2005 she formed the Forge Mountain Diggers, a hard-driving oldtime band, with Freight Hoppers fiddler Da
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 38,324x
- A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder
· 2006 · cited 27,908x
- Learning representations by back-propagating errors
· 1986 · cited 23,639x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 20,929x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,518x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1988-04-13 ) April 13, 1988 (age 38) , Hartford, Connecticut , U.S.
- Education
- Yale University ( BA )
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 2004–present
- Spouses
- Ricky Van Veen ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2015 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2019 ) Alexander Dreymon ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2023 )
- Father
- Brian Williams
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Allison Williams DSM-11 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 1
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Allison Williams (actress)
- date of birth
- 1988-11-30
- name in native language
- Allison Williams
- start of work period
- 2004-00-00
Sources (9)
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Article
Allison Howell Williams (born April 13, 1988) is an American actress. She began her career in comedy and rose to prominence as a horror queen beginning in the late 2010s. Her accolades include a National Board of Review Award and nominations at the Critics' Choice, GMSA and SAG Awards.
After performing on YouTube and with the improv troupe Just Add Water, Williams gained her first starring role in the comedy drama series Girls (2012–2017). She rose to wider prominence for co-starring in the psychological horror film Get Out (2017), and the science fiction horror films M3GAN (2022) and M3GAN 2.0 (2025)—both of which she produced. She also starred in the psychological horror film The Perfection (2018), the historical series Fellow Travelers (2023) and the romantic drama film Regretting You (2025).