Malinda Williams, an esteemed Hollywood sweetheart, stars in two highly anticipated projects early this year. In the exciting new television drama, Windfall(NBC), Malinda portrays Kimberly George, a 22 year-old single mother whose luck finds her winning the $386 Million dollar lottery and leaving her life in the trailer park behind. Additionally, Malinda will grace the silver screen in the eagerly anticipated film, Idlewild (Universal). Idlewild will be Malindas first starring role in a major musical production. In this period piece, also starring Outkast members Big Boi and Andre 3000, Malinda will portray Zora, the wife of Rooster (Big Boi).
If you ask this talented actress some of her career goals, she will tell you, I just want to portray African-American women accurately, because that is all I represent; not necessarily positively or negatively, just correctly. If this beautiful actress face seems familiar, it may be because she spent five years portraying Tracey Bird Van Adams, a beauty salon owner and struggling entrepreneur on Showtimes ground-breaking, history making series Soul Food.
Having the ability to portray characters ranging from a sophisticated beauty salon owner, to a mentally challenged teenager, has branded Malinda Williams one of Hollywoods most well-respected actresses.
