Tonya Lee Williams Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Born in London, UK, she is an only child of Lloyd G. Williams a now deceased Supreme Court Justice of the British Virgin Islands and St. Kitts, and Korah H. Williams a retired Registered Nurse. Both Tonya's parents are Jamaican, but met in the UK at University and married there. When Tonya was 1 1/2 years old, she and her parents moved to Kingston...
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.
$250,000
