Writer/Producer/Actress Alessandra Williams

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Actress, writer and director Alessandra Williams co-stars in the upcoming drama, Lissa’s Trip opposite Sofia Vassilieva and directed by Jeffrey Scott Lando and will premiere on Tubi, June 20. Williams portrays dual characters, Alex / Millie the Macaw and Vassilieva was the recipient as Best Actress at The First Glance Film Festival in 2023 and Vassilieva won Best Actress and Lando was the Best Director recipient at Puerto Aventuras International Film Festival in 2024. Williams also starred opposite Mark Wahlberg in Netflix’s Spenser Confidential, directed by Peter Berg. She also co-starred opposite Wahlberg in the STX action thriller Mile 22. And, Williams, wrote and directed Green Kola, a short film comedy/parody about the behind-the-scenes world of today’s Hollywood. In this inspired portrait of show business, she plays actress Nina Finch, America’s sweetheart, opposite world renown French photographer Antoine Verglas, who plays himself and executive produced and was the recipient of Best Short Film at The Manhattan Film Festival in 2022 and will also Best Short at The Paris Independent Film Festival and London International Film Festival. Williams also wrote and directed an episode of a new dramedy series (currently untitled) from director/producer Timur Bekmambetov (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), which will be streamed via Netflix. A New York City native of Italian and Russian descent, William’s professional acting career was jumpstarted when she was cast as an American dancer opposite Shahid Kapoor and Anushka Sharma in director Parmeet Sethi’s Bollywood crime comedy, Badmaa$h Company. Prior to that, she had been a successful commercial actress in Manhattan booking over twenty commercial gigs. A life member of the prestigious Actor’s Studio in New York and Los Angeles, where she has been studying for over ten years, Vino landed a top agent and began auditioning and winning prominent roles on television series, beginning with the recurring part of Gina Gershon’s assistant, Lindsay, in How To Make it in America.