[39], Keen to play challenging roles in adult-oriented projects, Williams spent the summer of 1999 starring in an Off-Broadway play named Killer Joe. Initially skeptical to play Monroe, as she had little in common with her looks or personality, Williams spent six months researching her by reading biographies, diaries and notes, and studying her posture, gait, and mannerisms. [3] Her father twice ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate as a Republican Party nominee. 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. [146] Fosse/Verdon, an FX miniseries about the troubled personal and professional relationship between Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, marked Williams' first lead role in television since Dawson's Creek. [90] Williams received Best Actress nominations at the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award ceremonies. Her depiction of the late Hollywood sex symbol earned her many glowing reviews and several professional accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and her third Oscar nomination. [103], In Sarah Polley's romance Take This Waltz (2011), co-starring Seth Rogen and Luke Kirby, Williams played a married writer attracted to her neighbor. [36] Williams found her first such role in the comedy Dick (1999), a parody of the Watergate scandal, in which she and Kirsten Dunst played teenagers obsessed with Richard Nixon. In 2016, Williams played the ex-wife of a janitor, played Casey Affleck, who together experience a tragic loss in Manchester by the Sea. [170] Describing her career in 2016, Boris Kachka of Elle termed it a metamorphosis from "celebrated indie ingenue to muscular, chameleonic movie star". 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[56] The actress next appeared in Imaginary Heroes, a drama about a family coping with their son's suicide, and played an impressionable young woman fixated on mental health in the period film A Hole in One. Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress. [121], Williams returned to film in 2016 with supporting roles in two small-scale dramas, Certain Women and Manchester by the Sea. Michelle Williams landed her first major role at 16, as troubled teenager Jen Lindley on the hit teen show Dawson's Creek, where she remained from 1998 until 2003.

She began her career with television guest appearances and made her film debut in the family film Lassie in 1994. [95], In 2011, Williams played the actress 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.

"I experienced a lot of loss after his death," she said. [63], Williams had two film releases in 2006. Her role was that of an established surgeon, a part she deemed herself too young to logically play.

[117] The former marked her third collaboration with Kelly Reichardt and told three interconnected narratives based on the short stories of Maile Meloy.

[7] The writer-director Sandra Goldbacher was initially reluctant to cast an American in a British part but was impressed by Williams' self-deprecating humor and a "European stillness". [66] Williams began dating Ledger while working on the film. Launching Film Career: 'Dick' and 'Prozac Nation', 'Wendy and Lucy,' 'Blue Valentine,' 'My Week with Marilyn'. Though the actress considered it to be a light-hearted film, Jenny McCartney of The Daily Telegraph found a darker undertone to it and favorably compared its theme to that of Blue Valentine. "use strict";(function(){var insertion=document.getElementById("citation-access-date");var date=new Date().toLocaleDateString(undefined,{month:"long",day:"numeric",year:"numeric"});insertion.parentElement.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(date),insertion)})(); Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. Many of her Southern California classmates were pursuing small acting jobs, such as commercials, and Williams decided that she, too, wanted to act. Michelle Williams' big break in the film world came in 2005, when she appeared in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain as the wife of a closeted gay rancher. [108] She 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 Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress.

Williams often defines her primary role as a mother, but continues to act in a variety of films, shifting easily from roles in low-budget independent films to mainstream productions. "[7] She subsequently made an effort to play roles that were not sexualized. [168] Describing her acting process in 2008, she said: Acting sometimes reminds me of therapy in that the more you talk about a traumatic or profound event, the more it loses its emotional tension. She went to the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 to promote two films, Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York and the critically acclaimed independent film Wendy and Lucy, from director Kelly Reichardt. [26][35] She has said the financial stability of a steady job empowered her to act in such films. [122] Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester by the Sea starred Casey Affleck as Lee, a depressed man who separates from his wife, Randy (Williams), following the death of their children.

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