Kimberly Williams-Paisley is an American actress. Throughout her acting career, she has guest-starred on TV shows Tales From The Crypt, George LopezShow, and Less Than Perfect. She is perhaps best known for her roles in made-for-TV movies, including Safe House, The Christmas Shoes, and Lucky 7. Her most well known film roles were her breakthrough performance in Father of the Bride, for which she was nominated for numerous awards, and her role as Laura Parker in Shade, a short film she also wrote and directed.

Kimberly Williams was born in Rye, New York to parents Gurney, a freelance medical journalist, and Linda, a fund-raiser. Williams has been in show business since the age of 13. In 1989 she directed the Rye High School Musical Revue. She left Northwestern University during her sophomore year to appear in the 1991 film version of Father of the Bride but returned to complete her degree in drama. While there, she was a sister of the Alpha Phi sorority.

Kimberly is known for her role as Annie Banks in Father of the Bride (1991) and Father of the Bride Part II (1995), with Steve Martinand Diane Keaton. She currently plays Dana in the Abcsitcom According to Jim and starred as Virginia in the NBC mini-series The 10th Kingdom. At some point in time, Williams-Paisley replaced Arija Bareikis as Sunny in the Tony Award winning play The Last Night of Ballyhoo written by Alfred Uhry.

Williams married country star Brad Paisleyon March 15, 2003. She then took her husband's name to differentiate herself from brunette Playboy model Kimberly Williams. They live in Franklin, Tennessee.

On February 22, 2007, she gave birth to her and Paisley's first child, a boy named William Huckleberry Paisley, in Nashville, Tennessee. Kim and Brad are currently expecting their second child.