A biography for Finty Williamshasn’t been written yet.
“Dad was much more critical. I did a comedy in Windsor and he came round afterwards with a load of paperwork and said nothing about my performance - just: 'I've got some forms for you to sign.'”
“I don't know under what lighting I can play Juliet. Maybe with a small night light illuminating the stage.”
“I think Ma is more honest than I am sometimes.”
“I had one critic who wrote: 'Finty Williams is like her mother in looks if not in talent.' It'll be on my gravestone.”
“I just take work a day at a time and hope that people believe in you and your ability, even if you don't quite believe in it yourself.”
“It's an amazingly daunting prospect to play any part you've seen someone else play brilliantly.”
“I don't spend as much time with my mother as I would love to because she is always working.”
“Some jobs you take because they are good for the heart.”
“Ma did a play called 'Entertaining Strangers' when I was about 14, which totally changed my life, I loved it so much.”
“My mother would strike me off if I didn't say theatre was incredibly important, and when you see something like 'Network' at the National Theatre, my god it's important. You feel like you can't breathe.”
“I was 18 and had an inverted light bulb moment where I thought that nothing I could do or say or how I looked was ever going to be good enough.”
“I'd love to do a play with Ma but I don't know whether that's like literally filling in your own grave and putting the gravestone on top.”
“I actually wanted to be a dancer, though I doubt anyone now would pay to see me in a leotard!”
“I've got a terrible crush on someone and last week mum was coaching me - it was a real masterclass - on how to very casually say hello to him. I had to talk to her hand. Tears were pouring down our faces.”