
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 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.
84 acting credits
Acting · 84

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Dawson's Creek
1998

The View
1997

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

Baywatch
1989

Home Improvement
1991

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003

MTV Video Music Awards
1984

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

Step by Step
1991

The Oscars
1953

Cougar Town
2009

Shutter Island
2010

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009

Venom
2018

Brokeback Mountain
2005

The Greatest Showman
2017

Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021

Dying for Sex
2025

Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023

Manchester by the Sea
2016

Species
1995

Oz the Great and Powerful
2013

The Fabelmans
2022

The Emmy Awards
1949

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998

Fosse/Verdon
2019

Blue Valentine
2010

But I'm a Cheerleader
2000

I Feel Pretty
2018

Synecdoche, New York
2008

The Station Agent
2003

All the Money in the World
2017

Dick
1999

Deception
2008

My Week with Marilyn
2011

I'm Not There
2007

E! True Hollywood Story
1996

Suite Française
2015

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013

Incendiary
2008

Wonderstruck
2017

The United States of Leland
2003

Certain Women
2016

Showing Up
2023

If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000

Heath Ledger: A Tribute
2009

Perfume
2001

Lassie
1994

A Place in Hell
2026

Prozac Nation
2003

Meek's Cutoff
2011

After the Wedding
2019

Wendy and Lucy
2008

A Thousand Acres
1997

The Hottest State
2007

Take This Waltz
2011

Dawson's Creek - The Series Finale (Extended Cut)
2003

Mammoth
2009

Imaginary Heroes
2004

The Baxter
2005

The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
2023

My Son Is Innocent
1996
Evel Knievel on Tour
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Land of Plenty
2004

Timemaster
1995
Untitled Damien Chazelle Project
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Me Without You
2001

That Click
2019

Killing Mr. Griffin
1997

The Hawk Is Dying
2007

Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012

Project X
2016

Deep Sky
2023

A Hole in One
2004

My Journey in Oz
2013
Nice Fish
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