Biography
William grew up on a reservation in Alkali Lake, in central British Columbia. Later, his mother Marilyn and father Dave, who are both Residential School Survivors, would move to Edmonton until William was in his preteens.
Having moved back, William started acting in local plays for his community and high-school. Williams first taste for acting in film came when he auditioned for a speaking role on the mini-series DreamKeeper (2003).
Later, having achieved a partial scholarship, William would Honourably graduate his acting program at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Art. Upon graduating, William returned home to Vancouver, BC where he would book his first role in the Twilight saga: 'Eclipse'.
His proudest moment was working with Anthony Hopkins in 'Blackway'. "I remember it was one scene. In Vernon, BC a small town in my home province. Tony looked me dead in the eye and smiled 'good work'."
Since than he has learned he can swim with sharks with the likes of Ron Livingston, another idol, Lorne Cardinal of Corner Gas, and even more recently, Sandra Bullock on an Untitled Project.
William has given back to his community teaching first nations youth in his community acting for Film and Television. "The teacher at Sxoxomic school is my cousin, I was briefly visiting home in Alkali Lake and she invited me to her class room to meet her students, I was not ready for that at all, but we adapted a short script from a Shuswap book, a week later we had a short film in the can... Well on an iPad. Wasn't much but they seemed to have a blast learning about writing, making acting choices, getting over fear, blocking, rehearsing, principle photography and editing. So we did a second film, I got a childhood friend of mine to help write it called 'Making of a Warrior'. Having adapted to a Covid era; He's now developing a third project with the youth through Zoom... We started with 4 actors and now we have 14 or so." William smiles, "2021 I'm celebrating my 15th year sober from Alcohol".
