Kimberly Williams-Paisley

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Kimberly Williams
Kimberly Williams-Paisley, June 2008
Born	September 14, 1971 (1971-09-14) (age 36) Rye, New York, United States
Other name(s)	Kimberly Payne Williams Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Spouse(s)	Brad Paisley (2003-present) 1 child

Kimberly Williams-Paisley (born September 14, 1971 in Rye, New York) is an American actress.

1 Biography
2 Filmography
3 Awards & Nominations
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Kimberly Williams was born in Rye, New York to parents Gurney, a freelance medical journalist, and Linda, a fund-raiser. Williams has been in show business since the age of 13. In 1989 she directed the Rye High School Musical Revue. She left Northwestern University during her sophomore year to appear in the 1991 film version of Father of the Bride but returned to complete her degree in drama. While there she was a sister of the Alpha Phi sorority.

[edit] Career

Williams-Paisley is known for her role as Annie Banks in Father of the Bride (1991) and Father of the Bride Part II (1995), with Steve Martin and Diane Keaton. She currently plays Dana in the ABC sitcom According to Jim and starred as Virginia in the NBC mini-series The 10th Kingdom.

[edit] Personal life

Beginning from May 1997, Williams dated tennis star Pete Sampras. The relationship ended in 1999.^[1]

Williams married country star Brad Paisley on March 15, 2003. She then took on her husband's name to differentiate herself from brunette Playboy model Kimberly Williams. They live in Franklin, Tennessee.

Brad Paisley had seen "Father of the Bride" with a former girlfriend. They broke up, but when "Father of the Bride II" was released, he went to the theater hoping his former girl would do the same. She never showed up, but in an interview with an Atlanta County Radio station, he said that he watched Williams' performance and thought, "I'd love to marry a girl like her." This led to Paisley's lyrics in his Part II album. He used the pretense of planning a video of the song as a pickup line to meet Kim, but never intended to make the video. After they were dating, Williams appeared in a video for the song "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)" in 2002, the last release from Part II album.

She has a sister, actress Ashley Williams and a brother, Jay Williams.

Brad Paisley has stated that Kim was the basis for his 2004 hit Little Moments.^[2] Specifically the opening part, which reads as follows:

"Well I'll never forget the first time that I heard that pretty mouth say that dirty word. And I can't even remember now, what she backed my truck into. But she covered her mouth and her face got red and she just looked so darn cute. That I couldn't even act like I was mad- Yeah I live for little moments like that."

The two events were taken right from the first time Brad heard her swear and how she started to blush when he found a dent in his truck. Kim even appeared in the music video for the song.

On February 22, 2007, she gave birth to her and Paisley's first child, a boy named William Huckleberry Paisley, in Nashville, Tennessee.^[3]

[edit] Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1991	Father of the Bride	Annie Banks
1992	Porco Rosso	Flo Piccolo	Voice Role (English Dub)
1993	Samuel Beckett Is Coming Soon	Kim
1993	Indian Summer	Gwen Daugherty
1995	Coldblooded	Jasmine
1995	Father of the Bride Part II	Annie Banks-MacKenzie
1996	The War at Home	Karen Collier
1999	Just a Little Harmless Sex	Alison
	Elephant Juice	Dodie
	Simpatico	Young Rosie
2001	Ten Tiny Love Stories	Herself
2006	Shade	Laura Parker	Director, Writer Short film
	How to Go Out on a Date in Queens	Amy
	How to Eat Fried Worms	Mrs. Forrester
	We Are Marshall	Sandy Lengyel
2007	Eden Court	Bonnie Duncan
2007	Numero Dos		Director, Writer Short film
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	ABC Afterschool Specials	Vanessa	Episode: Stood Up!
1994	Tales from the Crypt	Inspector Zeller's Daughter	Episode: The Bribe
1996	Jake's Women	Molly	CBS TV-Movie
1996	Relativity	Isabel Lukens
1998	Safe House	Andi Travers	Showtime TV-Movie
2000	The 10th Kingdom	Virginia Lewis	NBC Miniseries
2001	Follow the Stars Home	Dianne Parker-McCune	CBS TV-Movie
2001–present	According to Jim	Dana Gibson
2002	The Christmas Shoes	Maggie Andrews	CBS TV-Movie
2003	Lucky 7	Amy Myer	TV-Movie
2004	Identity Theft: The Michelle Brown Story	Michelle Brown	TV-Movie
2004	George Lopez	Vanessa Brooks	Episode: E.I.? E.I. OH
2005	Less Than Perfect	Laura	Episode: Get Away