Tonya Maxine Williams Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Tonya Lee Williams (born Tonya Maxine Williams on July 12, 1958) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Dr. Olivia Barber Winters on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless, from 1990 to 2005, and for a brief time in 2007. She returned to the series in the fall of 2008.
Full Name
Tonya Maxine Williams
Net Worth
$300,000
Date Of Birth
July 12, 1958
Place Of Birth
London, England, UK
Height
5' 8" (1.73 m)
Profession
Actress, Producer, Director
Spouse
Robert Simpson
Nicknames
Tonya Lee Williams, Williams, Tonya Lee
Star Sign
Cancer
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Fact
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She was born in London, UK. Her family moved to Jamaica when she was one year old. At age 4-1/2 she contracted rheumatic fever and was bedridden for six months. She and her mother moved back to England when she was five and settled in Birmingham. When she was 12 they moved to Oshawa, Canada.
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President of production company Wilbo Entertainment, based in Toronto, Canada and Los Angles, USA.
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She is a member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
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Founder of ReelWorld Film Festival, in Toronto, Canada. The festival screens features, shorts, documentaries, animation and music videos, about or by Aboriginal, Asian, Black, Latino, Middle Eastern, South Asian and multi-racial communities.
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Her middle name is not "Lee". When she joined the Screen Actors Guild she was informed that there were already five actresses named Tonya Williams on record and that she had to either change her first name or add a middle name. Since her legal middle name of Maxine Gwendolyn was too long, she came up with "Lee" in seconds, thinking she could change it later. However, one job led to another and before long the industry knew her as\t Tonya Lee Williams--she she has said that she would still like to lose the "Lee".
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Honorary member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc.
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She appeared regularly back in the 1970s on the dance show called "Boogie" which aired on CityTV.
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Former model for Eaton's catalogues
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Was crowned "Miss Black Ontario" in 1977.
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Parents were from Jamaica. Her mother was a Registered Nurse (now retired), her father was a Supreme Court Justice for British Virgin Islands and St. Kitts, and served a five-year term as a judge on the United Nations tribunal trying war crimes cases committed during the Rwanda civil war.
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Graduated from Ryerson University's Theatre School in Toronto.
