77 Facts About Michelle Williams (Actress)

Michelle Ingrid Williams was born on September 9,1980 and is an American actress.

Michelle Williams gained emancipation from her parents at age fifteen, and soon achieved recognition for her leading role in the teen drama television series Dawson's Creek.

On Broadway, Michelle 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.

Michelle Williams is an advocate for equal pay in the workplace.

Consistently private about her personal life, Michelle Williams has a daughter from her relationship with actor Heath Ledger and was briefly married to musician Phil Elverum.

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Michelle Williams has a son with her second husband, theater director Thomas Kail.

Michelle Ingrid Williams was born on September 9,1980, in Kalispell, Montana, to Carla, a homemaker, and Larry R Williams, an author and commodities trader.

Michelle Williams has Norwegian ancestry and her family has lived in Montana for generations.

In Kalispell, Michelle Williams lived with her three paternal half-siblings and her younger sister, Paige.

Michelle Williams has recounted fond memories of growing up in the vast landscape of Montana.

Michelle Williams became interested in acting at an early age when she saw a local production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Michelle Williams performed in an amateur production of the musical Annie, and her parents would drive her from San Diego to Los Angeles to audition for parts.

Michelle Williams played the love interest of Guiry's character, which led Steven Gaydos of Variety to take note of her "winning perf".

Michelle Williams next took on guest roles in the television sitcoms Step by Step and Home Improvement, and appeared as the child form of Sil, an alien played in adulthood by actor Natasha Henstridge, in the 1995 science fiction film Species.

Michelle Williams disliked going there as she did not get along well with other students.

At age fifteen, with her parents' approval, Michelle Williams filed for emancipation from them, so she could better pursue her acting career with less interference from child labor work laws.

Michelle Williams had minor roles in the television films My Son is Innocent and Killing Mr Griffin, and the drama A Thousand Acres, which starred Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange.

Michelle Williams later described her early work as "embarrassing", saying she had taken those roles to support herself as she "didn't have any taste [or] ideals".

In 1997, unhappy with the roles she was being offered, Michelle Williams collaborated with two other actors to write a script named Blink, about prostitutes living in a Nevada brothel, which despite being sold to a production company was never made.

In 1998, Michelle Williams began starring in the teen drama television series Dawson's Creek, created by Kevin Michelle Williamson and co-starring James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, and Joshua Jackson.

Michelle Williams said the financial stability of a steady job empowered her to act in such films.

Michelle Williams found her first such role in the comedy Dick, a parody of the Watergate scandal, in which she and Kirsten Dunst played teenagers obsessed with Richard Nixon.

Keen to play challenging roles in adult-oriented projects, Michelle Williams spent the summer of 1999 starring in an off-Broadway play titled Killer Joe.

Michelle Williams played Holly, an insecure bibliophile, a part that came close to her personality.

Michelle Williams returned to the stage the following year in a production of Mike Leigh's farce Smelling a Rat.

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Michelle Williams played a supporting role in the Christina Ricci-starring Prozac Nation, a drama about depression based on Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir.

Michelle Williams had supporting parts in two art-house films that year, the drama The United States of Leland and the comedy-drama The Station Agent.

On stage, Michelle Williams played Varya in a 2004 production of Anton Chekhov's drama The Cherry Orchard, alongside Linda Emond and Jessica Chastain, at the Michelle Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Michelle Williams received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for the film.

Michelle Williams returned to the comedic genre with The Baxter, in which she played a geeky secretary.

Michelle Williams found a vulnerability in her and cast her as Alma, the wife of Ennis, who discovers her husband's homosexual infidelity.

Michelle Williams first featured opposite Paul Giamatti in the drama The Hawk Is Dying.

Michelle Williams was then drawn to the part of an enigmatic seductress named S in the 2008 crime thriller Deception.

Two days after finishing work on Synecdoche, New York, Michelle Williams began filming Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy, playing the part of a poor and lonesome young woman traveling with her dog and looking for employment.

Michelle Williams had just separated from Ledger and was relieved for the anonymity the project provided.

Michelle Williams was pleased with Reichardt's minimalistic approach and identified with her character's self-sufficiency and fortitude.

Michelle Williams was filming in Sweden for her next project, Mammoth, when news broke that Ledger had died of an accidental intoxication from prescription drugs.

Michelle Williams's role was that of an established surgeon, a part she deemed herself too young to logically play.

Michelle Williams had first read the script for Derek Cianfrance's romantic drama Blue Valentine at age 21.

Scott found Michelle Williams to be "heartbreakingly precise in every scene" and commended the duo for being "exemplars of New Method sincerity, able to be fully and achingly present every moment on screen together".

Michelle Williams received Best Actress nominations at the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award ceremonies.

Michelle Williams starred as one of the passengers on the wagon, a feisty young mother, who is suspicious of Meek.

In 2011, Michelle Williams starred as actor Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn, a drama depicting the troubled production of the 1957 comedy The Prince and the Showgirl, based on accounts by Colin Clark, who worked on the latter film.

Michelle Williams gained weight for the part, bleached her hair blonde, and on days of filming, underwent over three hours of makeup.

Michelle Williams sang three songs for the film's soundtrack and recreated a performance of Monroe singing and dancing to "Heat Wave".

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Suite Francaise, a period drama that Michelle Williams filmed in 2013, was released in a few territories in 2015 but was not theatrically distributed in America.

Michelle Williams later admitted to being displeased with how the film turned out, adding that she found it hard to predict the quality of a project during production.

Michelle Williams read the works of Christopher Isherwood, whose novel Goodbye to Berlin inspired the musical, and visited Berlin to research Isherwood's life and inspirations.

Michelle Williams's performance received mixed reviews; Jesse Green of Vulture praised her singing and commitment to the role, while Newsdays Linda Winer thought her portrayal lacked depth.

Michelle Williams found a part in a 2016 revival of the David Harrower play Blackbird.

Michelle Williams, who had not seen previous stagings of the play, was drawn to the ambiguity of her character and found herself unable to distance from it after each performance.

Michelle Williams received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination for Blackbird.

Michelle Williams returned to film in 2016 with supporting roles in two small-scale dramas, Certain Women and Manchester by the Sea.

Michelle Williams agreed to the project to work with Lonergan, whose work she admired, and in preparation, she visited Manchester to interview local mothers about their lives.

Michelle Williams worked with a dialect coach to speak in a Massachusetts accent.

Michelle Williams likened her character's joyful disposition to that of Grace Kelly, and she sang two songs for the film's soundtrack.

Michelle Williams then took on her first leading film role since 2013 in Ridley Scott's crime thriller All the Money in the World.

Michelle Williams considered it a major opportunity, since she had not headlined a mainstream big-budget film before.

The critic David Edelstein bemoaned that Michelle Williams's work had been overshadowed by the controversy and went on to praise her "marvelous performance", taking note of how well she had conveyed her character's grief "[t]hrough the tension in her body and intensity of her voice".

Michelle Williams received her fifth Golden Globe nomination for the role.

In 2018, Michelle Williams married the musician Phil Elverum in a secret ceremony in the Adirondack Mountains.

Michelle Williams returned to the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 with After the Wedding, a remake of Susanne Bier's Danish film of the same name, in which she and Julianne Moore played roles portrayed by men in the original.

Michelle Williams served as an executive producer on the series, and she was glad to receive equal pay to her co-star Sam Rockwell without having to negotiate.

Michelle Williams credited the experience of performing Cabaret on Broadway as having prepared her for her portrayal of Verdon.

Elverum and Michelle Williams filed for divorce in April 2019; by November 2019, it was reported that they were no longer married.

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Michelle Williams gave birth to their son, Hart, later that year and, as of May 2022, is expecting her second child with him.

In 2021, Michelle Williams reprised the role of Anne Weying in the superhero sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage.

Later in 2022, Michelle Williams starred in The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical film about his childhood, in which she played Mitzi Fabelman, a character inspired by his mother.

Michelle Williams disliked the attention, saying it interfered with her work and made her self-conscious.

Michelle Williams has since affirmed her determination to look after her daughter in spite of her difficulties as a single parent.

Michelle Williams prefers acting in small-scale independent films to high-profile, mainstream productions, finding this to be "a very natural expression of [her] interest".

Michelle Williams agrees to a project on instinct, calling it an "un-thought out process".

Erica Wagner of Harper's Bazaar has praised Michelle Williams for combining "startlingly emotional performance with a sense of groundedness" and the critic David Thomson opines that she "can play anyone, without undue glamour or starriness".

Saffron Vera Wang gown Michelle Williams wore to the 78th Academy Awards in 2006 is regarded as one of the greatest Oscar dresses of all time.

Michelle Williams has featured as the brand ambassador for the fashion label Band of Outsiders and the luxury brand Louis Vuitton.

Michelle Williams has appeared in several advertisement campaigns for the latter company, and in 2015, she starred alongside Alicia Vikander in their short film named The Spirit of Travel.

Michelle Williams has received four Academy Award nominations: Best Supporting Actress for Brokeback Mountain and Manchester by the Sea ; and Best Actress for Blue Valentine and My Week with Marilyn.