Ashley Christina Williams (born January 24, 1984) known professionally as Winter Williams, is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the horror films ''

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) ''The Human Centipede (First Sequence)'' is a 2009 Dutch Independent film, independent body horror film written, directed and co-produced by Tom Six. The film concerns a deranged German surgeon who kidnaps three tourists and conjoins them surgi ...

'' (2009) and ''Julia'' (2014).

Early life

Ashley Christina Williams was born in

Boston, Massachusetts Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

. She graduated from the

American Academy of Dramatic Arts The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) is a Private college, private drama school with two locations, one in New York City and one in Los Angeles. The academy offers an associate degree in occupational studies and teaches drama and related ...

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in 2005, where she received the Charles Jehlenger Award for excellence in acting.

Career

She is best known for her role as Lindsay in ''

'', where she plays the middle member of the human centipede.. Her next major role was Piper in the 2010 suspense drama, ''Empty''. In 2014, she had the

title role The title character in a narrative work is one who is named or referred to in the title of the work. In a performed work such as a play or film, the performer who plays the title character is said to have the title role of the piëce. The title o ...

in the horror film ''

Julia Julia may refer to: People *Julia (given name), including a list of people with the name *Julia (surname), including a list of people with the name *Julia gens, a patrician family of Ancient Rome *Julia (clairvoyant) (fl. 1689), lady's maid of Qu ...

'', as a rape victim pursuing revenge. She won the award of Best Actress at the 2014

Screamfest Horror Film Festival Screamfest Horror Film Festival is a horror film festival founded by film producers Rachel Belofsky and Ross Martin in August 2001. It runs over ten days during the month of October and is hosted at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Los Angeles, Ca ...

for her performance as Julia. On March 23, 2023, she announced that, due to multiple other actors with the same or similar name, she had chosen "Winter Williams" as her new stage name. She noted "winter" was a word with special personal meaning to her.

Personal life

Williams met her husband Matthew A. Brown on the set of ''

''. The couple have two children together.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theater

*''

Romeo and Juliet ''The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet'', often shortened to ''Romeo and Juliet'', is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare about the romance between two young Italians from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's ...

'' (as Juliet) directed by Dario D'Ambrosi at

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (sometimes abbreviated as La MaMa E.T.C.) is an Off-Off-Broadway theater founded in 1961 by African-American theatre director, producer, and fashion designer Ellen Stewart. Located in the East Village neighborho ...

*2010: ''Bong Bong Bong Against the Walls, Ting Ting Ting in Our Heads'' (as Loga) at

*2010: ''Spellbound - A Musical Adventure'' (as Herianne) at

New York International Fringe Festival The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, was a fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America. It took place over the course of a few weeks in October, spread on more than 20 stages across se ...

*''Under the Veil'' (as Sammia; a Mind The Art anthology) at

*''

Much Ado About Nothing ''Much Ado About Nothing'' is a Shakespearean comedy, comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599.See textual notes to ''Much Ado About Nothing'' in ''The Norton Shakespeare'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 ) p. ...

'' (as

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) at Milagro Theater (

) *''

The Diary of Anne Frank ''The Diary of a Young Girl'', commonly referred to as ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', is a book of the writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of t ...

'' (as

Anne Frank Annelies Marie Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – February or March 1945)Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new li ...

) with Four County Players *''

The Grapes of Wrath ''The Grapes of Wrath'' is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize ...

'' (as Rose of Sharon) at Live Arts

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Ashley C. 1984 births Living people American film actresses American stage actresses Actresses from Boston American Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni 21st-century American actresses