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Lia Williams is one of the most popular and richest Stage Actor who was born on November 26, 1964 in Birkenhead, England, United Kingdom. Williams has been directing short films from 2002. Her debut film was Feathers (2002), which was inspired by a Raymond Carver short story. Her 2008 short film The Stronger (2007, based on a Raymond Carver story) was nominated at the BAFTA Film Awards for Best Short Film Award. It also won Best Short Film at Raindance. Williams directed Dog Alone in 2009, a short film that was entirely dialogue-free and broadcast as part British Sky Broadcasting’s Ten Minute Tales series. She directed Nanabozhung in 2016, a feature-length documentary about the Batchewana First Nations of Canada.
In 2019, she played the role of Hannah Jelkes in the West End theatre production of Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana at the Noel Coward Theatre opposite Clive Owen.
Williams’ film debut was in Michael Winner’s Dirty Weekend 1993. Winner saw her perform in an Alan Ayckbourn show and chose her. Her subsequent film roles include supporting roles in Firelight (1997), Shot Through the Heart (1998) and The King Is Alive (2001), Girl from Rio (2001) and The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (2006).
Williams’s first major performance was in 1991’s The Revengers’ Comedies. For this, she won the Critics Circle Theatre Award; Most Promising Youngcomer and an Olivier Award nomination as Best Comedy Performance. She played the role of Carol, in the London productions of David Mamet’s Oleanna in 1993. Williams starred opposite Michael Gambon in London’s West End in 1997 and on Broadway in David Hare’s Skylight in 1997 (Olivier Award and Tony Award nominations). Williams was seen on Broadway and in London’s West End again in 2001 as Ruth in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming. She has been a long-standing collaborator with Harold Pinter, appearing in roles such as The Collection, Celebration and The Room, The Lover, The Hothouse, Old Times, and The Lover.
On stage, she has also directed The Matchbox by Frank McGuinness for Liverpool Playhouse and the Tricycle Theatre and Ashes to Ashes as part of the Harold Pinter Season in the West End (2019)
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