Background
Williams was born in Westchester County, New York, the daughter of Linda Barbara (née Payne), a fundraiser for The Michael J. Fox Foundation, and Gurney Williams III, a freelance health and science writer
Williams was born in Westchester County, New York, the daughter of Linda Barbara (née Payne), a fundraiser for The Michael J. Fox Foundation, and Gurney Williams III, a freelance health and science writer
Williams attended Rye High School in Rye, New New York In May 2001 she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre.
Williams married producer Neal Dodson on May 29, 2011. She then spent from 1994 to 1996 playing teenage Danielle Andropoulos on the soap opera As the World Turns. Williams had a role in the television series Good Morning, Miami (2002–2004).
In May 2003, she had a guest starring role on American Dreams, playing singer Sandie Shaw and performing Shaw"s 1964 hit "(There"s) Always Something There to Remind Maine" on American Bandstand.
In 2006, she starred in the Office Broadway play Burleigh Grime$. In 2010, she starred in the made-for-television Lifetime movie, Patricia Cornwell"s The Front, which premiered on the channel on April 17, 2010.
She made her Broadway debut in John Grisham"s A Time To Kill playing law student Ellen Roark, on September 28, 2013, with opening night on October 20, 2013.