Barbara Williams

Barbara Williams (* 1953 near Vancouver Island , British Columbia ) is a Canadian actress , singer and screenwriter .

Life

Barbara Williams was born on a tugboat en route to Esperanza, a remote mission station on northwest Vancouver Island. At that time, her parents lived in nearby Zeballos . Her father Jack was American , her mother Simone French .

Her father died while Barbara was recording her only CD, Forgiving Ocean , which is dedicated to him.

Her first television appearance was in the 1978 television film All's Well That Ends Well . Her first film to be released on video in Germany was the film Höllenhunde des Highways produced in 1981 (Original: Firebird 2015 AD ).

In addition to a number of feature and television films (see film selection below), she also acted in some television series ; so among others in Der Equalizer (episode: The Making of a Martyr , 1989), Spaceship Enterprise: The next century (episode: Indiskretionen , 1993), CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators (episode: A dirty game , 2002) and Bones - The Bone Hunter (episode: A Traitor in the Fire , 2006). Most recently, she appeared in three episodes of the third season of the Canadian police series Rookie Blue ( Messy Houses , Coming Home , I Never , all 2012).

Barbara Williams is widowed, she was married to the socio-political activist Tom Hayden , with whom she lived in Los Angeles .

Filmography (selection)

• 1983: A Second Attempt ( Tell Me That You Love Me )
• 1984: Dreams Come True at Night ( Thief of Hearts )
• 1986: Jo Jo Dancer - Your Life is Calling ( Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling )
• 1988: Dirty Tiger ( Tiger Warsaw )
• 1988: Watchers - Hunted Mercilessly ( Watchers )
• 1990: The Man Inside - Deadly Messages ( The Man Inside )
• 1991: City of Hope ( City of Hope )
• 1992: Black Death ( Quiet Killer , TV movie)
• 1992: The Scent of Death ( Indecency , TV movie)
• 1992: Oh, What a Night
• 1993: Like a Bird in the Wind ( Digger )
• 1994: Spenser: The Drug Cartel ( Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes , TV movie)
• 1995: Kidnapped: In the Line of Duty (TV movie)
• 1995: Eiskalte Wut ( Family of Cops , TV movie)
• 1997: The Abbotts - When Hate Kills Love ( Inventing the Abbotts )
• 1998: Jagabongo - A terribly nice jungle family ( Krippendorf's Tribe )
• 1998: Bone Daddy ( Bone Daddy )
• 1998: Naked City - Justice with a Bullet (TV movie)
• 1998: NY - Streets of Death ( Naked City: A Killer Christmas , Movie made for TV)
• 2003: Manhood
• 2006: Bones ( Bones , TV series, episode 2x11)
• 2009–2010: FlashForward (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 2011: Revenge (TV series, episode 1x18)
• 2012: Rookie Blue (TV series, 3 episodes)
• 2013: White House Down
• 2019: Another Life (TV series, 8 episodes)
• 2020: Pearl

Web links

• Official website (English)
• Barbara Williams at the Internet Movie Database (English)