Bio

In feature films, Williams-Paisley starred opposite Tom Cavanagh in Newline Cinema’s, How to Eat Fried Worms, the film adaptation of the popular young children’s book. She also played Matthew McConaughey’s wife in Warner Brothers’ We are Marshall, for director McG.

Williams-Paisley wrote and directed the multi award-winning short film, Shade, in which she also starred, opposite Patrick Dempsey. The film finished its festival circuit with a win for the Vision Award for Best Festival Short at the Heatland Film Festival.  Her second short, Numero Dos, premiered at the Nashville Film Festival before making a festival circuit as well.

Williams-Paisley made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-Winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo and has appeared on stage in The Vagina Monologues, in NY and LA, and in All in the Timing at the Geffen Playhouse.  She also performed on London’s West End in David Mamet’s Speed the Plow.

Williams-Paisley’s other television credits include the ABC Family Network’s Lucky Seven, and the Lifetime Original feature Identity Theft, on both of which she also served as Co-Producer.   She co-starred in The Christmas Shoes for The CBS Network, in ABC’s Relativity, in the NBC mini series The Tenth Kingdom, and in the Hallmark Hall of Fame film,  Follow the Stars Home.

In addition to her acting work. Williams-Paisley is an accomplished writer, with published articles for In Style magazine and a year-long column for Redbook

entitled My Life as a New Wife.  She and her father Gurney Williams co-authored  the children’s book,  Henry and the Hidden Veggie Garden.

Williams-Paisley is actively involved with St. Jude’s Hospital and the XP Foundation, and she is a

member of the Entertainment Council for  Feeding America.  She is currently hosting a documentary series for Nashville Public television entitled, NPT Reports: Children’s Health Crisis, about the state of children’s health in Tennessee.