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Kelli Renee Williams (born June 8, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress.

Early life

Kelli Williams is the daughter of actress Shannon Wilcox and plastic surgeon John Williams. Her parents divorced when she was 13. She has one brother and two half-brothers.

Williams earned her Screen Actors Guild card before her first birthday by appearing in a diapers commercial, and appeared in several other commercials as a child. She attended elementary school at Lycée Français, and graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1988. While attending school she was active in the performing arts department. After starring opposite General Hospital's Steve Burton in the school's production of Romeo and Juliet, she was signed by an agent.

Career

Williams began her career on television, with a second-season role in an episode of the CBS series Beauty and the Beast and as the first victim of the Hillside Stranglers in NBC's made-for television film The Case of the Hillside Stranglers. Her first feature film appearance was in There Goes My Baby (1994) opposite ER's Noah Wyle. Also in 1994, she played Jennifer Stolpa in the television movie Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story. She appeared in 1996 in the 19th episode of the fourth and final season of the TV series Picket Fences as an Amish woman who was raped. She also guest starred on the hit Fox Teen Drama Party of Five on its 1st season in 1994 as a woman named Annie Alcott.

In 1997 she took her most prominent role as Lindsay Dole Donnell on the ABC legal drama The Practice. She appeared in the series The Lyon's Den and Hack, as well as two episodes of Scrubs. Williams appeared as Dr. Natalie Durant on the NBC television show Medical Investigation which began in the fall of 2004 and ran for 20 episodes before being canceled.

In August 2008, Williams was cast as Dr. Gillian Foster in the Fox series Lie to Me which has currently run for two seasons.^[1]

Personal life

Williams married author Ajay Sahgal in 1996. The couple has three children: Kiran Ram (b. May 1998), Sarame Jane (b. 3 February 2001), and Ravi Lyndon (b. 11 July 2003).

She told Marie Claire that she got breast implants when she was 19 and had them removed when she was 22.^[2]

Williams speaks French and Spanish, and has volunteered with the Young Storytellers Program.

References

External links

• Kelli Williams at the Internet Movie Database