Kent Williams

Born in Manhattan, son of big band leader Glenn Williams and Marilyn Williams, a former June Taylor dancer. Studied music and theatre at SUNY Oswego where he graduated in 1973 along with classmate Christine Estabrook ("Desperate Housewives"). Studied acting at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco in the mid-1970s where his classmates included Anna Deavere Smith and screenwriter Ken Hixon.