# Barbara Williams (actress)

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

| Year | Title | Role | 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 | The Man Inside | 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 | 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

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1978 | All's Well That Ends Well | Widow | TV film |
| 1979 | The Littlest Hobo | Mrs. Rudd | "Smoke" |
| 1982 | By Reason of Insanity | | TV film |
| 1982 | Shocktrauma | Nurse Andrea Davidson | TV film |
| 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 | The Equalizer | Sylvia Thorton | "Making of a Martyr" |
| 1989 | Street Legal | Pat Hardaker | "In Search of a Dream" |
| 1989 | Peter Gunn | Edie | TV film |
| 1990 | Neon Rider | Judith | "Father and Son" |
| 1990 | Against the Law | Phoebe Haverhill McHeath | "Pilot" |
| 1991 | Tropical Heat | Philomena | "Fowl Play" |
| 1991 | The Hidden Room | Claire McIntire | "Let Death Do Us Part" |
| 1991 | Keeper of the City | Grace | TV film |
| 1992 | Quiet Killer | Charlene | TV film |
| 1992 | Indecency | Marie Clarkson | TV film |
| 1993 | Country Estates | Sarah Reed | TV film |
| 1993 | Spenser: Ceremony | Susan Silverman | TV film |
| 1993 | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Anna | "Liaisons" |
| 1994 | Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes | Susan Silverman | TV film |
| 1994 | Picket Fences | Vera Keegan | "Cold Spell" |
| 1995 | Kidnapped: In the Line of Duty | Beth Honeycutt | TV film |
| 1995 | The Outer Limits | Caitlin Doyle | "Under the Bed" |
| 1995 | Family of Cops | Kate Fein | TV film |
| 1996 | Mother Trucker: The Diana Kilmury Story | Diana Kilmury | TV film |
| 1997 | Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II | Kate Fein | TV film |
| 1997 | Millennium | Dawn | "Paper Dove" |
| 1997 | Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way | Ali Torre | TV film |
| 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 film |
| 1998 | Naked City: A Killer Christmas | Eva | TV film |
| 1999 | Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion | Kate Fein | TV film |
| 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 film |
| 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 |