Career
Williams was a producer of the 1991 parody film The Craig Ferguson Story, and the following year she produced the documentary style television series Funny Business. Williams worked as a co-producer in the children"s television series Up on the Roof in 1997 and as a producer for the 1998 television film Jack and the Beanstalk. Williams" first writing cr was the 2005 television production Wallis & Edward, for which she wrote the script.
Williams wrote The Secret Life of Mistress
Beeton, which came out in 2006. After reading in 2004 Becoming Jane Austen, a 2003 biography by Jon Hunter Spence, Williams approached Ecosse Films about the possibility of adapting it into a film about Austen"s early life.
The company agreed, and hired her to write a script. After she composed several drafts, the company hired screenwriter Kevin Hood to aid in its further development because of his "romantic sensibility." The resulting film, Becoming Jane, was released in 2007.
Williams was the screenwriter for the 2007 docudrama, Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea.
The following year, Williams adapted the novel Poppy Shakespeare for television In 2009, Williams co-wrote the two-part television drama Small Island with Paula Milne. Williams adapted a novel by Sophie Hannah into the 2012 two-part series Case Sensitive, starring Olivia Williams.
