Modelling He was discovered by
Steven Meisel in Paris when he was working for
Vivienne Westwood. Represented by Models One, he went on to model with top photographers
Mario Testino,
Bruce Webber,
David Bailey,
Paolo Roversi, Meisel,
Nick Knight - who shot him for the album cover 'Coming up' for the band
Suede. He was the 'it' male model of the 90s, where he modelled with
Kate Moss for W magazine, as well as numerous appearances in
The Face, Sky,
Elle,
Vogue, Vogue Homme, L'uomo Vogue and Runway Shows and Campaigns for CK Jeans, Versace, D&G, Dries Van Notes, Yohji Yamamoto, Thierry Mugler, Lagerfeld, Anne Demeulemeester, Raf Simmons. He was friends with Alexander McQueen and featured in his first two fashion shows wearing the infamous 'bumsters', and the mannequin company 'Adele Rootstein' immortalised him as a shop mannequin where he was seen in the windows of
Liberty,
Selfridges and
Harvey Nichols. Williams worked as a model for two and a half years at the time when the
heroin chic look was in popular demand and was being popularised by
Kate Moss, and used in
Calvin Klein advertisements. He was tall, skinny, had long hair and looked androgynous; a perfect candidate to model. Williams worked in many big magazines and was used as a model for
The Face,
I-D,
Arena,
Vogue,
Elle, ''L'uomo''. He also worked with top photographers such as
Mario Testino,
Bruce Weber and
David Bailey. It was also between him and James Mcavoy for the role of 'Mr Tumnus' in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. In 2011, he played Henry Mynors in
Helen Edmundson's adaptation of
Anna of the Five Towns on
BBC Radio 4. The same year he appeared in
Four Nights in Knaresborough (Morville) at the Southwark Playhouse. Williams directed an adaptation of Kafka's 'The Trial' at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013 and has been part of the writers programme at The Marlow Theatre in Canterbury, where his first play won a competition and they commissioned him to write a new original piece called 'SNUFF'. He has numerous television and film scripts in development.
Voice Overs Williams is also a prolific voice over artist, represented by the agency Yakety yak in London. Clients include Virgin, HMV, Rimmel, VO5, Nivea, Dove men, Alton Towers, DHL, as well as documentaries and promos for the BBC, ITV, Disney and the History Channel. == Filmography ==