A former New Zealand rugby union and rugby league professional, Sonny William Williams is a Kiwi.

One of just 21 players to win the Rugby World Cup twice, he first represented New Zealand in rugby league before switching to rugby union.

Sonny Bill Williams Parents

Williams was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on August 3, 1985, to a Samoan father, Ioane (“John”) Williams, and an Australian mother, Lee Woolsey.  He has two younger twin sisters, Niall and Denise, and an elder brother, John Arthur.

Williams grew up in a statehouse in the Auckland neighborhood of Mount Albert, where he was raised by a working-class family.

Williams subsequently stated that the “driving element” in his desire to play professional rugby league was to “buy my mother a house” while recalling his difficult family history.

Meet Lee Williams and John Williams

Williams was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on August 3, 1985, to a Samoan father, Ioane (“John”) Williams, and an Australian mother, Lee Woolsey.  He has two younger twin sisters, Niall and Denise, and an elder brother, John Arthur.

He went to Mount Albert Grammar School, Wesley Intermediate School, and Owairaka School.

He was characterized as a “little, skinny white boy” who was “painfully timid” as a youngster, as well as “a remarkable sports talent, a competitive sprinter, a champion high jumper and cross country runner,

Not much is known about his both parents yet.