Kendra Williams is an actress born and raised in Forest Hill in downtown Toronto, Canada. She started performing at age 12 with The Toronto Youth Theatre in musical and classical theatre productions. She continued to perform intensively throughout high school at The Bishop Strachan School, where she starred in many lead roles of Shakespearean plays and graduated with Academic Honours. She then extended her training at numerous summer theatre programs across the United States and United Kingdom, including Interlochen Center for the Performing Arts in Traverse City Michigan, Carnegie Mellon's Pre-College Drama Program in Pittsburgh, and Scottish Youth Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland. She earned her BFA Degree in Acting from The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, in 2014, where she received a Merit Scholarship at the prestigious School of Music Theatre & Dance.She has worked across mediums in TV, Commercial, Voice Over and Theatre. Her father is an aeronautical, thermodynamic and mechanical engineer, and entrepreneur in the hospitality and tourism industry. Her mother studied early childhood psychology and development, dance therapy and anthropology. She has one older brother who studied computer science and is a computer software engineer.