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Lona Williams (born September 26, 1966) is an American television producer, writer, and actress.

Lona Williams
Williams in 1992
Born	(1966-09-26) September 26, 1966 (age 55)[1] Rosemount, Minnesota, U.S.[1]
Occupation	Producer, writer, actress
Years active	1991–present

Early life and education

Williams was raised in Rosemount, Minnesota,[2] where her father, Les, was a middle school math teacher.^{[citation needed]} Williams participated in a number of beauty pageants as a child and was crowned Minnesota's Junior Miss in 1985,[3] before becoming the runner up in the year's America's Junior Miss, winning a $10,000 scholarship.[2][3][4] She graduated from Rosemount High School shortly thereafter.^{[citation needed]}

Williams attended the University of Minnesota and after she took a screen-writing course there, her teacher encouraged her to move to California to find work.

Career

After working as an assistant on one show, Jerry Belson helped her get a job as a writing assistant on The Simpsons.[2] She occasionally provided voices for the show, including that of Amber Dempsey, a single-episode character from "Lisa the Beauty Queen".[5] She noted: "I really was only a typist for the show. But by working on the script, I learned how the scripts were put together. I would go to work and type all day, and come home and work on my spec scripts for The Simpsons and Roseanne."[2]

Bruce Helford hired Williams as a writer on the short-lived Someone Like Me before in 1995 signing her up as a writer and producer on The Drew Carey Show. She stayed for three seasons and wrote the screenplay Dairy Queens which was retitled and released in 1999 as Drop Dead Gorgeous.[2][6] She also wrote the original script for the 2001 film Sugar & Spice (on which she is credited under the pseudonym Mandy Nelson).[7][8] She co-wrote the script of Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse.

Filmography

Writing

Film

Year	Title	Notes
1999	Drop Dead Gorgeous	Also actor and executive producer
2001	Sugar & Spice	written under pseudonym Mandy Nelson
2004	Shark Tale	Additional dialogue
2015	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	Story

Television

Year	Title	Notes
1994	Hardball	2 episodes
1995	Bless This House	Episode: "If It Ain't Broke, Break It"
1995–1999	The Drew Carey Show	7 episodes; also producer and story editor
2002	In My Opinion	Television film

References

External links

• Lona Williams at IMDb

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