Michelle Williams

Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress. In December 2005, Williams earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Brokeback Mountain. She is considered to be a frontrunner for the same category in the race for the 2006 Oscars. Born in Kalispell, Montana, USA, she is the eldest of the five children of Larry, a commodities broker, and Carla Williams, a homemaker. When she was nine, her family moved to San Diego, California. Her mother took her to auditions in Los Angeles where she won her first film role, as a space alien who turned into Natasha Henstridge in the 1995 movie Species. She graduated from high school at fifteen and was emancipated from her parents so she could pursue an acting career. She won several small roles before she was cast as Jen Lindley on Dawson's Creek, the part that would make her a star.

On Dawson's Creek, her character, only fifteen, had been too much for her parents to handle, drinking, partying, having sex from age twelve, so she was exiled from her home in New York City, to live in Capeside, Massachusetts with her maternal grandmother. Jen was everything her grandmother was not: jaded, cynical, irreligious, and more, leading to frequent arguments and her eventually being kicked out of the house. The show ran for six seasons, from 1998 to 2003.

Her first starring role in films was as Arlene in Dick, a satire of the Watergate scandal, in which she starred with Kirsten Dunst.

She has been in a half-dozen subsequent films, some of them well-reviewed (e.g. The Station Agent, Me Without You), but few have been great commercial successes. Her biggest hits came from supporting roles in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and Brokeback Mountain.

Private life

She is engaged to actor Heath Ledger, whom she met on the set of Brokeback Mountain, for which she garnered a 2005 Golden Golden nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She gave birth to the couple's first child on October 28, 2005. Baby girl Matilda Rose Ledger weighed 6lbs. 5oz.

Bio from Wikipedia.

Golden Globes, January 16, 2006.

Thank you for posting those beautiful pictures.

new pics from interview mag!

she looks amazing!

love the black and white ones

Great pictures, thanks for sharing them.

Oscar 2006

She almost made "Dawson's Creek" tolerable.

admit it, you have all the Dawson's Creek seasons in dvd!!!

she should stick with blonde and she's one of the most pretty faces in Hollywood

I like her.But I like Heath more.

she looks like his daughter

It's incredible how her face changed since the day she was pregnant. I mean, she really glows now, I can't really explain...

Sari Gueron Fall 2007.02.04

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Photographed by Michael Sanders

Thanks to the Black Pit

Elle (US) March 2007

Miss Independent

Photography by Steven Sebring

thanks to bwgreyscale

Hilarious!!

She did a lot since Dwason's Creek ...

Filmography

Brontë (2008) (pre-production) .... Charlotte BrontëSynecdoche, New York (2007) (filming)

Where the Wild Things Are (2008) (post-production) (voice)

Incendiary (2008) (post-production) .... Young Mother

The Tourist (2007) (completed)

I'm Not There (2007) (completed) .... Coco Rivington

The Hottest State (2006) .... Samantha

The Hawk Is Dying (2006) .... Betty

Brokeback Mountain (2005) .... AlmaThe Baxter (2005) .... Cecil Mills

Land of Plenty (2004) .... Lana

Imaginary Heroes (2004) .... Penny Travis

A Hole in One (2004) .... Anna Watson

"Dawson's Creek" .... Jen Lindley / ... (128 episodes, 1998-2003)

The Station Agent (2003) .... Emily

... aka The Station Manager (UK)

The United States of Leland (2003) .... Julie Pollard

Prozac Nation (2001) .... Ruby

Me Without You (2001) .... Holly

Perfume (2001) .... Halley

... aka Dress to Kill (USA: video title)

If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) (TV) .... Linda (segment "1972")

But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) .... Kimberly

Dick (1999) .... Arlene Lorenzo

... aka Dick, les coulisses de la présidence (France)

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) .... Molly Cartwell

... aka Halloween: H20 (USA: promotional title)

... aka Halloween: H20 (20 Years Later) (USA: promotional title)

A Thousand Acres (1997) .... Pammy

Killing Mr. Griffin (1997) (TV) .... Maya

... aka Killing Griffin (USA: video title)

My Son Is Innocent (1996) (TV) .... Donna

Timemaster (1995) .... Annie

Species (1995) .... Young Sil

"Home Improvement" .... Jessica Lutz (1 episode, 1995)

- Wilson's Girlfriend (1995) TV Episode .... Jessica Lutz

"Raising Caines" (1995) TV Series .... Trish Caines

"Step by Step" .... J.J. (1 episode, 1994)

- Something Wild (1994) TV Episode .... J.J.

Lassie (1994) .... April Porter

"Baywatch" .... Bridget (1 episode, 1993)

... aka Baywatch Hawaii (USA: new title)

- Race Against Time: Part 1 (1993) TV Episode .... Bridget

source: imdb.com

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