Jobet Williams - American film actress, director and producer

Jobet Williams is an American movie actress, producer and director. Currently, the current president of the US Screen Actors Guild. She was nominated several times for the Oscar, Golden Globe, Saturn and Emmy awards.

Jobet Williams: filmography and biography

The actress was born in 1948, on December 6, in Houston, Texas. Her father is Frederick Williams Roger, a former art person, an opera singer. At the time of his birth, the daughter was in charge of a major cable company. Mother - Francis Faye, was a dietician in a city hospital.

After graduation, Jobet Williams entered the Brown University at the Faculty of Psychology. She dreamed of becoming a child psychologist, but when she took a training course to correct the Texas accent, she got carried away with theatricality of the process and decided to become an actress.

After graduating from university, Jobet Williams moved to New York, where she tried to start a career on television, while not forgetting about the cinema.

Several roles of a secondary nature in various television series did not bring the aspiring actress satisfaction, and she decided to wait for her participation in any film project. However, no proposals from filmmakers were received, and Jobet Williams continued to appear in television films.

Debut in a big movie

Only in 1979 the actress received an invitation to the role of Phyllis Bernard in the film with a deeply psychological plot "Kramer v. Kramer", and given the formation of Williams, we can assume that this role was more than welcome for her.

The composition of the crew even more inspired the actress: starring Hollywood stars of the first magnitude, such as Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman - both Oscar-winning, popularly beloved and well-deserved. Jobet Williams, whose filmography at that time did not contain a single picture, was happy with such a gift of fate, as participation in the creation of the drama "Kramer v. Kramer." And although her character - the girlfriend of the protagonist - by and large in the movie meant nothing, pride overwhelmed the actress.

Fame

The film made a furor, and with it became famous and Jobet Williams. She began receiving serious offers from Hollywood filmmakers. Actress Jobet Williams, whose films attracted more and more attention of the audience, gained wide popularity after the release of the film "Violently Loose," directed by Sidney Poitier, where she played the beauty of Meredith. Then followed the films "Big disappointment", "Poltergeist" and "Poltergeist 2".

Failure

In 1984, the actress played her only career role. This was the film "American Dreamer", who had no success at the box office. The picture, shot in the genre of household fiction, told of a great lover of spy stories, which once also wrote a detective story, won the first prize, and then turned into the main heroine of her work.

After the "American Dreamer" actress began to shoot a lot and quite successfully. Films "Substitution", "Wyatt Earp", "Dutch", "My name is Bill", "Blossoming in the desert", "My memories", "Teachers".

After a number of successfully played roles, Joblet was carried away by independent cinema. She showed herself as an able director and producer in some TV projects. She starred in the series "Mistresses", "Private Practice", "Zoe Hart from the Southern State".

Nominations

In 1984, the actress played in the TV series "Adam" and received a nomination for the Emmy Award as best supporting actress. Then her participation in the film "Baby M" was marked by two nominations - for "Golden Globe" and "Emmy."

The most successful in her career, Williams believes 1994, when she performed a role in the series "Fraser", for which she was again nominated for the Emmy. Then the actress acted as a director in the production of the film "In Hope", nominated subsequently for the "Oscar" in the nomination "Best Film of the Year in a short format".

Jobet often produces films and is very successful. However, most often it is removed in any role. Among her latest paintings: "Baseball fever", "Crazy love", "Nine", "Justice Dexter."

List of works of the actress

Jobet Williams, whose filmography includes more than a hundred films of a different genre, where she starred or acted as a director, believes that not everything has been done yet. The list includes recent films with her participation:

• "The trap of the violet mist."
• "Leather".
• "Las Vegas".
• The Naval Police.
• "Relapse".
• "Defender".
• The Ponders' Family.
• "Strong medicine."
• "Special Corps".
• "Jackie is back."
• "It came from heaven."
• "Justice".
• "The history of childhood."
• "When danger takes you home."
• "Write the script."
• "Client".
• "Into the jungle of the jungle."
• "Silhouette".
• "The last appeal."
• "Mighty Max."
• "The Golden Adventure."
• "All that is mine is with me."
• "A Boy Who Nobody Loved."
• "Prince Valiant."
• "He drives me crazy".
• "Substitution."

Currently, the actress is full of creative plans and continues to work on the following scenario.