Bella Dontine

Michelle Dontine Williams, known professionally as Bella Dontine, is a English-American actress/model, producer, and writer originally from Wilmington, Delaware where she began her career as a child actress in theatre productions. Bella began performing in parades and dance at two years of age. She would put on shows for her family when she was 3 years old. When she was 6 years old she joined a church choir and began performing in school theatre performances. At age 9, she earned the lead role of Mary Magdalene in a school Christmas Production of Mary & Joseph. Bella and her two friends formed a singing group when she was 9 years old called CMC. They would put on shows for the neighborhood and charge a dime for people to attend the shows. When Bella and her mother were leaving the movie theatre one day, after seeing Never Been Kissed, Bella couldn't stop talking about Drew Barrymore's acting and that's when her mother realized Bella was looking at it from an acting perspective with no formal training. That Spring Bella's mother put her in every acting workshop and sent her on every audition she could find. By age 11 she was performing in theatre shows around Delaware and Pennsylvania. When she didn't have an acting job she would work behind the scenes of a show doing lighting or crew work. Bella began competitively dancing at age 15, in which she paid for her dance lessons, singing lessons, guitar and piano lessons with the money she made from working. She performed at Walt Disney World and Planet Hollywood (NYC) by the age of 17 and has taken dance classes from Broadway performers and at Steps on Broadway. Bella has performed all over most of the east coast. Bella decided to continue her studies and graduated from Wilmington University with a degree in Digital Film Making. She continued working on short films during her studies and went on to receive her Master's Degree. Bella is an award winning producer, actress & writer. She has continued to appear in film and television shows starring Kate Winslet, Sally Field, Jason Segel and many more. When she's not acting she continues to write and work behind the camera. She is the founder of Delaware based, Small Wonder Studios, a film and television company. She was Assistant Director on the Award-Winning film Delaware Shore, as well as, Assistant Director & Writer on the Award-Winning short film, The Norwalk Witness.