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Actor and producer Tonya Lee Williams brings Hollywood experience to Canada
Tonya Lee Williams is known to many for her role as Dr. Olivia Winters on the long-running American soap-opera, The Young and the Restless. But the former Miss Black Ontario has also been working for 12 years now as the driving force behind Toronto's Reel World Film Festival.
The guest of honour at this year's Black Theatre Workshop gala in Montreal, Carmel Kilkenny had the opportunity to talk to Williams about the current film and TV industry, and to hear her impression of the Oscar nominated film, The Help.
- http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2217515776/nm0931845
- http://www.tonyaleewilliams.com/
- http://www.blacktheatreworkshop.ca/
- http://www.reelworld.ca/festival/program-2012/
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