Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Kimberly Williams-Paisley (2008)

Kimberly Payne Williams-Paisley (* 14. September 1971 in Rye in the US state of New York ) is an American actress , film director , film producer and screenwriter .

life and career

Williams-Paisley has two siblings: fellow actors Ashley Williams and Jay Williams. She graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston , where the fraternity Alpha Phi belonged.

Williams-Paisley starred alongside Steve Martin and Diane Keaton in the 1991 film Father of the Bride . For this role she was nominated for the MTV Movie Award . In 1995 the sequel A Gift from Heaven - Father of the Bride 2 followed . In the film Simpatico she played alongside Nick Nolte , Jeff Bridges and Sharon Stone . She was also in the television series Respectively , Jim Against James Belushi and Courtney Thorne-Smith and in The Tenth Kingdom .

Williams-Paisley directed and wrote the script for two short films: Shade in 2006, in which she played alongside Patrick Dempsey , and Numero Dos in 2007 . For Shade she received the Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival and the Sedona International Film Festival. She has published several articles in In Style and Redbook magazines .

In April 2016, Williams-Paisley published her first book, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only To Find Her Again . In it she deals with her mother Linda's illness, who suffers from a rare form of dementia .

Since 2003, Williams-Paisley is the Country - singer Brad Paisley married, in the music video for the song I'm Gonna Miss Her she appeared already of 2002. The couple have two sons. She previously had a two-year relationship with tennis player Pete Sampras .

Filmography (selection)

• 1990: Junge Schicksale ( ABC Afterschool Specials , TV series, episode 19x03)
• 1991: Father of the Bride ( Father of the Bride )
• 1993: Samuel Beckett Is Coming Soon (short film)
• 1993: Indian Summer - A Wild Week Among Friends ( Indian Summer )
• 1994: Tales from the Crypt ( Tales from thy Crypt , TV series, Episode 6x06)
• 1995: Cold Blooded - The romance is alive ... still! (Coldblooded)
• 1995: A godsend - Father of the Bride 2 ( Father of the Bride Part II )
• 1996: Jake's Women ( Jake's Women , TV movie)
• 1996: The War at Home
• 1996: Respectively ( Relativity , TV series, seven episodes)
• 1998: Isolation ( Safe House )
• 1999: Men are different ( Just a Little Harmless Sex )
• 1999: Elephant Juice
• 1999: Simpatico
• 2000: The Tenth Kingdom ( The 10th Kingdom , Soaps, nine episodes)
• 2001: Ten Tiny Love Stories
• 2001: Follow the Stars Home (TV movie)
• 2001–2009: Again and again Jim ( According to Jim , TV series, 166 episodes)
• 2002: The Christmas Shoes (TV movie)
• 2003: Lucky Seven ( Lucky 7 , TV movie)
• 2004: Identity Theft: The Michelle Brown Story (TV movie)
• 2004: George Lopez (TV series, episode 4x09)
• 2005: Office Girl ( Less Than Perfect , TV series, episode 3x17)
• 2006: Shade (short film)
• 2006: How to Go Out on a Date in Queens
• 2006: Billy bet or How to eat fried worms ( How to Eat Fried Worms )
• 2006: They Were Heroes ( We Are Marshall )
• 2008: Boston Legal (TV series, episode 5x13)
• 2008: Eden Court
• 2010: Amish Grace (TV movie)
• 2012: Eden Court
• 2012: Royal Pains (TV series, episode 4x09)
• 2012–2013: Nashville (TV series, 20 episodes)
• 2014: Ask Me Anything
• 2014: Two and a Half Men (TV series, 6 episodes)
• 2015: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
• 2017: Speech & Debate
• 2017: You Get Me
• 2017: Darrow & Darrow (TV movie)
• 2017: The Christmas Train (TV movie)
• 2018: Darrow & Darrow - Body of Evidence (TV movie)
• 2018: The Christmas Chronicles
• 2019: The Flash (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 2019: Witness to Murder - A Darrow Mystery (TV movie)
• 2019: Darrow & Darrow 4 - Burden of Proof (TV movie)
• 2019: Dolly Parton's Hearstrings ( Dolly Parton's Hearstrings , TV series, episode 1x01)
• 2020: The Violent Heart

Publications

• Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only To Find Her Again , Crown Archetype, April 2016, ISBN 978-1101902950

Web links

Commons : Kimberly Williams-Paisley  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kimberly Williams-Paisley in the Internet Movie Database (English)