Allison Williams appreciation thread

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Allison Williams was born April 13, 1988. She is an American actress and singer who played Marnie Michaels on the HBO comedy-drama series Girls and was critically acclaimed for her performance in the 2017 horror film Get Out.

Williams was born and raised in New Canaan, Connecticut, the daughter of former NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams and TV producer Jane Gillan Stoddard. She has a brother, Doug, three years her junior. She attended New Canaan Country School and Greenwich Academy,then graduated from Yale University. While at Yale, Williams was a member of the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water for four years, was involved in the YouTube series College Musical, and was inducted by St. Elmo.

Williams began dating Ricky Van Veen, co-founder of CollegeHumor, in 2011. They became engaged in 2014 and married on September 19, 2015 in a private ceremony in Saratoga, Wyoming. Tom Hanks officiated the ceremony. She and her husband live in Chelsea, New York.

TV filmography
2019 Sesame Street
2018 Patrick Melrose
2018–2019 A Series of Unfortunate Events
2015 The Simpsons
2014 Peter Pan Live! Peter Pan
2013 The Mindy Project
2012–2017 Girls
2011 The League
2011–2012 Jake and Amir
2011 Will & Kate: Before Happily Ever After
2004 American Dreams