Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michelle Williams (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Kalispell, Montana, USA, 1980-09-09

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1994	Lassie	April Porter	61
2	1995	Timemaster	Annie	37
3	1995	Species	Young Sil	60
4	1996	My Son Is Innocent	Donna	63
5	1997	Killing Mr. Griffin	Maya	47
6	1997	A Thousand Acres	Pammy	58
7	1998	Halloween H20: 20 Years Later	Molly Cartwell	60
8	1999	Dick	Arlene Lorenzo	59
9	2000	If These Walls Could Talk 2	Linda	65
10	2000	But I'm a Cheerleader	Kimberly	70
11	2001	Perfume	Halley	48
12	2001	Prozac Nation	Ruby	63
13	2001	Me Without You	Holly	64
14	2003	The United States of Leland	Julie Pollard	65
15	2003	Dawson's Creek - The Series Finale (Extended Cut)	Jen Lindley	0
16	2003	The Station Agent	Emily	74
17	2004	A Hole in One	Anna Watson	45
18	2004	Land of Plenty	Lana	62
19	2004	Imaginary Heroes	Penny Travis	65
20	2005	The Baxter	Cecil Mills	61
21	2005	Brokeback Mountain	Alma Beers	78
22	2007	The Hawk Is Dying	Betty	48
23	2007	The Hottest State	Samantha	54
24	2007	I'm Not There	Coco Rivington	65
25	2008	Incendiary	Young Mother	54
26	2008	Deception	S	59
27	2008	Synecdoche, New York	Claire Keen	76
28	2008	Wendy and Lucy	Wendy	69
29	2009	Mammoth	Ellen Vidales	62
30	2009	Heath Ledger: A Tribute	Self	100
31	2010	Shutter Island	Dolores	82
32	2010	Blue Valentine	Cindy	69
33	2011	Meek's Cutoff	Emily Tetherow	65
34	2011	My Week with Marilyn	Marilyn Monroe	67
35	2011	Take This Waltz	Margot	63
36	2012	Ben Lee: Catch My Disease	Self	20
37	2013	Oz the Great and Powerful	Annie / Glinda	59
38	2013	Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy	Narrator (voice)	66
39	2015	Suite Française	Lucille Angellier	73
40	2016	Certain Women	Gina	60
41	2016	Manchester by the Sea	Randi Chandler	75
42	2016	Project X	Narrator 2 (voice)	63
43	2017	Wonderstruck	Elaine	61
44	2017	The Greatest Showman	Charity Barnum	79
45	2017	All the Money in the World	Gail Harris	65
46	2018	I Feel Pretty	Avery LeClair	64
47	2018	Always at The Carlyle	Self (archive footage)	68
48	2018	Venom	Anne Weying	68
49	2019	After the Wedding	Isabel	64
50	2019	That Click	Self	90
51	2021	Venom: Let There Be Carnage	Anne Weying	68
52	2022	The Fabelmans	Mitzi Fabelman	76
53	2023	The Fabelmans: A Family in Film	Self	72
54	2023	Showing Up	Lizzy	58
55	2023	Deep Sky	Narrator (voice)	0
56		A Place in Hell		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
2	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
3	1984	MTV Video Music Awards	Self	76
4	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self - Guest	56
5	1989	Baywatch		60
6	1991	Home Improvement	Jessica Lutz	74
7	1991	Step by Step		77
8	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		54
9	1996	E! True Hollywood Story	Self (archive footage)	81
10	1997	The View	Self	45
11	1998	Dawson's Creek	Jen Lindley	73
12	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self	55
13	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
14	2009	Late Night with Jimmy Fallon	Self - Guest	60
15	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
16	2009	Cougar Town	Laurie's Foster Sister	64
17	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
18	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	57
19	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert		64
20	2019	Fosse/Verdon	Gwen Verdon	72
21	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show		65
22	2023	Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	70
23	2025	Dying for Sex	Molly Kochan	62

Michelle Williams

Film

Television