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Thomas High School in Webster at least partway through the 10th grade, but left school before graduating. She had her first run-in with the law at the age of 15, when she was arrested for sunbathing nude. At the age of six, she appeared tap-dancing on the Howdy Doody show as a member of the 'Peanut Gallery'. She studied clarinet at the Community Music School program of the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, and later was a clarinetist in her high school's concert band. Williams, a chemist at Eastman Kodak, and Audrey Stauber Williams (1921–2008) on May 28, 1949, in Webster, New York. She had attempted to kill herself twice in the years leading up to her death allegedly she had also been struggling with deep depression. On April 6, 1998, Williams fatally shot herself near her home in Storrs, Connecticut.

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She also appeared in the 1989 comedy Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog, television series The New Adventures of Beans Baxter, and MacGyver. Williams made her non-adult screen debut in Tom DeSimone's film Reform School Girls (1986), for which she recorded the title song. Albums Kommander of Kaos (1986) and Deffest! and Baddest! (1988) followed, before her retirement from the music industry. Three albums with Plasmatics later, Williams embarked on a solo career and released her debut album, WOW, in 1984. The band quickly became known on the local underground scene, performing at clubs such as CBGB. That year manager Rod Swenson recruited her to the Plasmatics, and the two became romantically involved. After arriving in New York City in 1976, she began performing in live sex shows, and in 1979 appeared in the pornographic film Candy Goes to Hollywood. She traveled to Florida and Europe landing various jobs such as lifeguard, stripper, macrobiotic cook, and server at Dunkin' Donuts. Leaving home at 16, Williams hitchhiked to Colorado, earning money by crocheting string bikinis. In 1985, during the height of her popularity as a solo artist, she was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Performing her own stunts in videos, she often sported a mohawk hairstyle.

She was noted for her onstage theatrics, which included partial nudity, exploding equipment, firing a shotgun, and chainsawing guitars. Wendy Orlean Williams (– April 6, 1998) was an American singer, best known as the lead singer of the punk rock band Plasmatics.