Barbara Williams (actress)

{{Infobox person

| name = Barbara Williams

| image =

| caption =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|10|19}}

| birth_place = Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

| spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Nick Mancuso
|1987|1993|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|Tom Hayden
|1993|2016|end=died}}}}

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1978–present

}}

Barbara Williams (born October 19, 1953) is a Canadian-American actress. Williams has starred in the 1984 Paramount film Thief of Hearts, the 1988 film Watchers and the 1992 film Oh, What a Night. She garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 21st Genie Awards for Love Come Down.

Early life

Williams was born in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, the daughter of Simone and Jack Williams, a tugboat skipper and logger. She is the widow of social and political activist Tom Hayden.

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1981 \|Firebird 2015 AD \|Shana \|
1983 \|Tell Me That You Love Me \|Miri \|
1984 \|Thief of Hearts \|Mickey Davis \|
1986 \|Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling \|Dawn \|
1988 \|Tiger Warsaw \|Karen \|
1988 \|Watchers \|Nora \|
1990 \|{{sortname\|The\|Man Inside\|The Man Inside (1990 film)}} \|Judie Brandt \|
1991 \|City of Hope \|Angela \|
1992 \|Oh, What a Night \|Vera \|Video
1993 \|Digger \|Anna Corlett \|
1997 \|Inventing the Abbotts \|Joan Abbott \|
1998 \|Krippendorf's Tribe \|Jennifer Harding Krippendorf \|
1998 \|Bone Daddy \|Sharon \|
1998 \|They Come at Night \|Dr. Sarah Schaeffer \|
2000 \|Lost Girl \|Piano Teacher \|Short
2000 \|Love Come Down \|Olive Carter \|
2001 \|Jack the Dog \|Faith \|
2002 \|Perfect Pie \|Francesca Prine / Marie Beck \|
2003 \|Manhood \|Faith \|
2005 \|data-sort-value="Inner Circle, The" \| The Inner Circle \|Barbara \|
2006 \|Little Chenier \|Bernell \|
2013 \|Hollywood Seagull \|Irene Del Mar \|
2013 \|White House Down \|Muriel Walker \|
2013 \|I Turned Her to the Left \| \|Short
2016 \|Take the Reins \|Sierra's Mother \|Short

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1981

|Firebird 2015 AD

|Shana

1983

|Tell Me That You Love Me

|Miri

1984

|Thief of Hearts

|Mickey Davis

1986

|Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

|Dawn

1988

|Tiger Warsaw

|Karen

1988

|Watchers

|Nora

1990

|{{sortname|The|Man Inside|The Man Inside (1990 film)}}

|Judie Brandt

1991

|City of Hope

|Angela

1992

|Oh, What a Night

|Vera

|Video

1993

|Digger

|Anna Corlett

1997

|Inventing the Abbotts

|Joan Abbott

1998

|Krippendorf's Tribe

|Jennifer Harding Krippendorf

1998

|Bone Daddy

|Sharon

1998

|They Come at Night

|Dr. Sarah Schaeffer

2000

|Lost Girl

|Piano Teacher

|Short

2000

|Love Come Down

|Olive Carter

2001

|Jack the Dog

|Faith

2002

|Perfect Pie

|Francesca Prine / Marie Beck

2003

|Manhood

|Faith

2005

|data-sort-value="Inner Circle, The" | The Inner Circle

|Barbara

2006

|Little Chenier

|Bernell

2013

|Hollywood Seagull

|Irene Del Mar

2013

|White House Down

|Muriel Walker

2013

|I Turned Her to the Left

|Short

2016

|Take the Reins

|Sierra's Mother

|Short

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1978 \|All's Well That Ends Well \|Widow \|TV movie
1979 \|{{sortname\|The\|Littlest Hobo}} \|Mrs. Rudd \|"Smoke"
1982 \|By Reason of Insanity \| \|TV movie
1982 \|Shocktrauma \|Nurse Andrea Davidson \|TV movie
1985 \|Alfred Hitchcock Presents \|Maggie Verona \|"The Human Interest Story"
1986 \|Stingray \|Sister Allison MacKenzie \|"That Terrible Swift Sword"
1987 \|Stingray \|Ginny Mitchell \|"One Way Ticket to the End of the Line"
1989 \|{{sortname\|The\|Equalizer\|The Equalizer (1985 TV series)}} \|Sylvia Thorton \|"Making of a Martyr"
1989 \|Street Legal \|Pat Hardaker \|"In Search of a Dream"
1989 \|Peter Gunn \|Edie \|TV movie
1990 \|Neon Rider \|Judith \|"Father and Son"
1990 \|Against the Law \|Phoebe Haverhill McHeath \|"Pilot"
1991 \|Tropical Heat \|Philomena \|"Fowl Play"
1991 \|{{sortname\|The\|Hidden Room\|nolink=1}} \|Claire McIntire \|"Let Death Do Us Part"
1991 \|Keeper of the City \|Grace \|TV movie
1992 \|Quiet Killer \|Charlene \|TV movie
1992 \|Indecency \|Marie Clarkson \|TV movie
1993 \|Country Estates \|Sarah Reed \|TV movie
1993 \|Spenser: Ceremony \|Susan Silverman \|TV movie
1993 \|Star Trek: The Next Generation \|Anna \|"Liaisons"
1994 \|Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes \|Susan Silverman \|TV movie
1994 \|Picket Fences \|Vera Keegan \|"Cold Spell"
1995 \|Kidnapped: In the Line of Duty \|Beth Honeycutt \|TV movie
1995 \|{{sortname\|The\|Outer Limits\|The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)}} \|Caitlin Doyle \|"Under the Bed"
1995 \|Family of Cops \|Kate Fein \|TV movie
1996 \|Mother Trucker: The Diana Kilmury Story \|Diana Kilmury \|TV movie
1997 \|Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II \|Kate Fein \|TV movie
1997 \|Millennium \|Dawn \|"Paper Dove"
1997 \|Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way \|Ali Torre \|TV movie
1998 \|Sins of the City \|Sam Richardson \|"Sins of the City", "Blind Eye for Hire", "Quarry"
1998 \|Naked City: Justice with a Bullet \|Eva \|TV movie
1998 \|Naked City: A Killer Christmas \|Eva \|TV movie
1999 \|Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion \|Kate Fein \|TV movie
2002 \|CSI: Crime Scene Investigation \|Diane Logan \|"The Finger"
2006 \|Bones \|Barbara Harper \|"Judas on a Pole"
2008 \|Quarterlife \|Maggie \|"Pilot", "Compromise"
2008 \|Every Second Counts \|Helen Preston \|TV movie
2009-10 \|FlashForward \|VP Joyce Clemente \|"Gimme Some Truth", "Let No Man Put Asunder"
2012 \|Revenge \|District Attorney \|"Justice"
2012 \|Rookie Blue \|Claire McNally \|"Messy Houses", "Coming Home", "I Never"
2018 \|Mayans M.C. \|Alice Reed \|"Murcielago/Zotz"
2019 \|Another Life \|General Blair Dubois \|Main Role

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1978

|All's Well That Ends Well

|Widow

|TV movie

1979

|{{sortname|The|Littlest Hobo}}

|Mrs. Rudd