Michelle Williams

Known for ActingBorn 1980-09-09 (age 45)Kalispell, Montana, USA

Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress. Known primarily for starring in small-scale independent films with dark or tragic themes, she has received various accolades, including three Golden Globe Awards, two Actor Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for five Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award. Williams, daughter of politician and trader Larry R. Williams, began her career with television guest appearances and made her film debut in the family film Lassie in 1994. She gained emancipation from her parents at age fifteen, and soon achieved recognition for her leading role as Jen Lindley in the teen drama television series Dawson's Creek (1998–2003). This was followed by low-profile films, before having her breakthrough with the drama film Brokeback Mountain (2005), which earned Williams her first Academy Award nomination. Williams received critical acclaim for playing emotionally troubled women coping with loss or loneliness in the independent dramas Wendy and Lucy (2008), Blue Valentine (2010), and Manchester by the Sea (2016). She has won three Golden Globes: for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in the drama My Week with Marilyn (2011), Gwen Verdon in the miniseries Fosse/Verdon (2019), and a woman with terminal cancer in the miniseries Dying for Sex (2025), as well as a Primetime Emmy Award for Fosse/Verdon. Her highest-grossing releases came with the thriller Shutter Island (2010), the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), the musical The Greatest Showman (2017), and the superhero films Venom (2018) and Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021). Williams has also led major studio films, such as Ridley Scott's thriller All the Money in the World (2017) and Steven Spielberg's drama The Fabelmans (2022). On Broadway, Williams starred in revivals of the musical Cabaret in 2014 and the drama Blackbird in 2016, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She is an advocate for equal pay in the workplace. Consistently private about her personal life, Williams has a daughter from her relationship with actor Heath Ledger and was briefly married to musician Phil Elverum. She has three children with her second husband, theater director Thomas Kail. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michelle Williams (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

That Click

Heath Ledger: A Tribute

Shutter Island

E! True Hollywood Story

The Greatest Showman

Brokeback Mountain

The Fabelmans

Manchester by the Sea

Step by Step

MTV Video Music Awards

Synecdoche, New York

The Emmy Awards

Suite Française

The Station Agent

The Fabelmans: A Family in Film

Home Improvement

Dawson's Creek

The Graham Norton Show

Fosse/Verdon

Blue Valentine

But I'm a Cheerleader

Venom

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Wendy and Lucy

My Week with Marilyn

Dying for Sex

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

My Son Is Innocent

All the Money in the World

Golden Globe Awards

Meek's Cutoff

Cougar Town

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Where the Wild Things Are

I'm Not There

I Feel Pretty

After the Wedding

Imaginary Heroes

The Oscars

The United States of Leland

Take This Waltz

If These Walls Could Talk 2

Me Without You

Project X

Prozac Nation

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Land of Plenty