Michelle Williams 1980 45
Michelle Williams 1980 45
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 two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for five Academy 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 15. She 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 she had 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 won Golden Globes for portraying Marilyn Monroe in the drama My Week with Marilyn (2011) and Gwen Verdon in the miniseries Fosse/Verdon (2019) and a Primetime Emmy Award for the latter. 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, theatre director Thomas Kail.
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2025 A Place in Hell
2025 This Is Jane Producer
2025 Dying for Sex as Molly Kochan Executive Producer
2023 Deep Sky as Narrator (voice)
2023 Showing Up as Lizzy
2023 The Fabelmans: A Family in Film as Self
2022 The Fabelmans as Mitzi Fabelman
2021 Venom: Let There Be Carnage as Anne Weying
2019 That Click as Self
2019 After the Wedding as Isabel
2018 Venom as Anne Weying
2018 Always at The Carlyle as Self (archive footage)
2018 I Feel Pretty as Avery LeClair
2017 All the Money in the World as Gail Harris
2017 The Greatest Showman as Charity Barnum
2017 Wonderstruck as Elaine
2016 Project X as Narrator 2 (voice)
2016 Manchester by the Sea as Randi Chandler
2016 Certain Women as Gina
2015 Suite Française as Lucille Angellier
2013 Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy as Narrator (voice)
2013 Oz the Great and Powerful as Annie / Glinda
2012 Ben Lee: Catch My Disease as Self
2011 Take This Waltz as Margot
2011 My Week with Marilyn as Marilyn Monroe Songs
2011 Meek's Cutoff as Emily Tetherow
2010 Blue Valentine as Cindy Executive Producer
2010 Shutter Island as Dolores
2009 Where the Wild Things Are Thanks
2009 Heath Ledger: A Tribute as Self
2009 Mammoth as Ellen Vidales
2008 Wendy and Lucy as Wendy
2008 Synecdoche, New York as Claire Keen
2008 Deception as S
2008 Incendiary as Young Mother
2007 I'm Not There as Coco Rivington
2007 The Hottest State as Samantha
2007 The Hawk Is Dying as Betty
2005 Brokeback Mountain as Alma Beers
2005 The Baxter as Cecil Mills
2004 Imaginary Heroes as Penny Travis
2004 Land of Plenty as Lana
2004 A Hole in One as Anna Watson
2003 The Station Agent as Emily
2003 Dawson's Creek - The Series Finale (Extended Cut) as Jen Lindley
2003 The United States of Leland as Julie Pollard
2003 Heart of America Third Assistant Director
2001 Me Without You as Holly
2001 Prozac Nation as Ruby
2001 Perfume as Halley
2000 But I'm a Cheerleader as Kimberly
2000 If These Walls Could Talk 2 as Linda
1999 Dick as Arlene Lorenzo
1998 Halloween H20: 20 Years Later as Molly Cartwell
1997 A Thousand Acres as Pammy
1997 Killing Mr. Griffin as Maya
1996 My Son Is Innocent as Donna
1995 Species as Young Sil
1995 Timemaster as Annie
1994 Lassie as April Porter