Kellie Shanygne Williams (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress, now known as Kellie Shanygne Jackson, but best known for her role as Laura Winslow on the television series Family Matters

Family Matters (TV series)

Family Matters is an American sitcom about a middle-class African-American family living in Chicago, Illinois, which ran on national television for nine full seasons. The series was a spin-off of Perfect Strangers, but revolves around the Winslow family...

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Biography

Williams was born in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 After Family Matters, she began acting in the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 television show What About Joan.

Williams was on the Style Network program Clean House

Clean House

Clean House is a home makeover and interior design television show, originally broadcast in 2003 which has aired 9 seasons of programs on the Style Network...

for six episodes in 2009, as a substitute host for Niecy Nash

Niecy Nash

Carol Denise "Niecy" Nash is an American comedian and actress who has hosted Clean House on the Style Network and played Deputy Raineesha Williams on the Comedy Central television series Reno 911!.-Early life:Nash was born in Palmdale, California. In addition to her acting endeavors, she is the...

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Personal life

Williams married Hannibal Jackson on September 5, 2009, and gave birth to a baby girl named Hannah Belle in early summer 2010. She also created the Kellie Williams Program in the Washington D.C. area. The KWP Summer Program in partnership with Councilman Thomas of Ward 5 and Comcast focuses on four main categories: theatre, music, visual arts and dance. The program will provide Washington, DC students between the ages of 14-20 an opportunity to produce a television show to air on Comcast Cable Local On-Demand. She stated, "I wanted to create a program similar to the one I grew up with (Howard University Children's Theatre). I wanted to bring it to the masses, not to just people who were familiar with the arts but to people who had never experienced any art." She has a younger sister and brother named Marti and Donte respectively.

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