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‘Girls’ Star Allison Williams Sets First Feature Starring Role

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 30, 2013 @ 12:45pm PDTTags: Allison Williams, Fox, Rosaline, Shawn Levy
Mike Fleming

Allison WilliamsEXCLUSIVE: Allison Williams, HBO Girls co-star and daughter of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, is in talks to play the title role in Rosaline, the Shawn Levy-produced feature based on Shakespeare that is mobilizing at 20th Century Fox. I’ve heard Williams is also on the short list for the Fantastic Four reboot, which is in the very early talking stage. Maybe not too long until Brian Williams is known as Allison’s dad. She’s repped by Paradigm. Rosaline is based on the Rebecca Serle book When You Were Mine.

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Rogers & Cowan Acquires Lantern PR

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday June 3, 2011 @ 8:59am PDTTags: Allison Williams, Ashley Greene, Rogers & Cowan
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Rogers & Cowan has acquired New York-based firm Lantern PR. Founder Lindsay Galin becomes vice president of R&C’s entertainment division in New York. She will bring with her clients that include The Twilight Saga’s Ashley Greene, Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck), Alexandra Daddario (Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief) … Read More »

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HBO Picks Up Lena Dunham Pilot To Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 7, 2011 @ 9:31am PSTTags: Allison Williams, HBO Pilots, Jemima Kirke, Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham, Lena Dunham HBO, Lena Dunham HBO Pilot, TV
Nellie Andreeva

13 years after the premiere of Sex and the City, HBO will launch another comedy about single girlfriends who are a decade younger than Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha. The … Read More »

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Trio Cast In Lena Dunham’s HBO Pilot, Including Brian Williams’ Daughter Allison

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 6:00am PDTTags: Allison Williams, Cable TV, HBO, Jemima Kirke, Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham, Lena Dunham HBO Pilot, Tiny Furniture, Tiny Furniture Trailer, Trailers, TV, TV Casting, Video
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Jemima Kirke and Allison Williams have landed the two leads opposite Lena Dunham in Dunham’s HBO comedy pilot executive produced by Judd Apatow and Jenni Kohner. Also cast in the pilot in a supporting role is Adam Driver (HBO’s You Don’t Know Jack).

The untitled comedy, which 24-year-old prodigy Dunham wrote and will direct/co-executive produce, is about the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of three girlfriends in their early 20′s: Hannah (Dunham), an eternal intern at a publishing house in SoHo and a hopeful writer; Marnie (Williams), a sexy, bitchy and ambitious assistant at a slick political PR firm whose goal id to practice environmental law; and Jessa (Kirke), a space cadet with hippie tendencies who wants to be an artist/educator. Gersh-repped Driver will play a handsome but slightly off carpenter with whom Hannah has been sleeping for the past 7 months.

Kirke co-starred opposite Dunham in Dunham’s much buzzed about feature Tiny Furniture, which won the top prize at this year’s South by Southwest and just earned two Gotham Film Awards nominations. Dunham was the writer, director and star of the film, with Kirke playing her friend. (photo of the two from the movie is above; the trailer for the movie, which features Dunham and Kirke, is at the bottom of the story.) This seems to be the first major professional acting gig for Williams who graduated from Yale earlier this year and is pursuing a career as an actress and a singer. The daughter of the NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has gained online popularity with several videos, including the viral That’s Why I Chose Yale and her recent performance of the Mad Men theme song (video below). Read More »

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