Name |
Tonya Lee Williams |
Height |
5' 8" |
Naionality |
United Kingdom |
Date of Birth |
12 July 1958 |
Place of Birth |
London, England, UK |
Famous for |
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Tonya Lee Williams (born Tonya Maxine Williams on July 12th, 1958 in London) is a Canadian actress, best 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. Williams returned to the series in the fall of 2008.
Williams and her family lived in London and Kingston, Jamaica while she was a young child. At age 5, she contracted rheumatic fever; she and her mother went to live in Birmingham, England. In 1969, she and her family settled in Oshawa, Ontario. As a teenager, she modeled in Eaton`s catalogues and danced on a television series called Boogie! which ran on CityTV. In 1977, Williams was crowned Miss Black Ontario.
Williams was married to Robert Simpson from 1983 to 1991. She has not remarried since