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Michelle Williams
Michelle Ingrid Williams 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.
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Born 9 September 1980 · Q156796
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2026· 3 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for Dying for Sex (2026).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for Dying for Sex (2026).
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2025· 3 entries
The Guardian: Anna Christie review – Michelle Williams is miscast in Eugene O’Neill misfire
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The Guardian: Dying for Sex review – Michelle Williams’ erotic journey is revolutionary TV
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The Guardian: ‘I’ve never masturbated on film before’: Michelle Williams’ orgasm odyssey in Dying for Sex
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2023· 4 entries
The Guardian: ‘Fo’ shiz, homie!’: Michelle Williams’ impression of Justin Timberlake is Britney’s greatest revenge
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The Guardian: ‘Girls today aren’t prey. They are victorious’: Michelle Williams on #MeToo, money and playing Spielberg’s mum
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The Guardian: Actor Michelle Williams, Marina Hyde on Nadhim Zahawi’s career, and Sam Wollaston plays pickleball – podcast
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Was enlisted by singer Britney Spears to narrate the audiobook version of her memoir The Woman in Me
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2022· 1 entry
Williams starred in The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical film about his childhood, in which she played Mitzi Fabelman, a character inspired by his mother
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2021· 1 entry
Williams reprised the role of Anne Weying in the superhero sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage
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2020· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for Fosse/Verdon (2020).
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2019· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Fosse/Verdon (2019).
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With After the Wedding, a remake of Susanne Bier's Danish film of the same name, in which she and Julianne Moore played roles portrayed by men in the original
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Utilized the pay gap controversy surrounding her film All the Money in the World to deliver an address at the United States Capitol urging passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act
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2018· 1 entry
Opened up about her relationship and marriage to Phil Elverum to provide grieving women with inspiration
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2016· 3 entries
Boris Kachka of Elle termed it a metamorphosis from "celebrated indie ingenue to muscular, chameleonic movie star"
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With supporting roles in two small-scale dramas, Certain Women and Manchester by the Sea
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That she is "predictably petite but her poise and posture make her seem larger than life"
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2015· 1 entry
Starred alongside Alicia Vikander in their short film named The Spirit of Travel
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2014· 2 entries
Released album “Journey to Freedom”.
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And the drama Blackbird in 2016, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
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2013· 1 entry
Was released in a few territories in 2015 but was not theatrically distributed in America
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2012· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for My Week with Marilyn (2012).
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2011· 2 entries
Williams portrayed 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
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Dated American filmmaker Cary Joji Fukunaga but they never publicly confirmed the relationship
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2010· 1 entry
And was a commercial success, earning over $294 million worldwide
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2008· 4 entries
Released ep “Hello Heartbreak (The Remixes)”.
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Released album “Unexpected”.
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Stated: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
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Williams admitted that playing a series of troubled women coupled with her own personal difficulties had taken an emotional toll
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2006· 2 entries
Is regarded as one of the greatest Oscar dresses of all time
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Released album “Heart to Yours / Do You Know”.
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2005· 2 entries
Gave birth to their daughter Matilda
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When Williams appeared in Ang Lee's drama Brokeback Mountain, about the romance between two men, Ennis and Jack (played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, respectively)
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “Do You Know”.
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While working on the film Brokeback Mountain
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2003· 1 entry
And Williams was satisfied with how it had run its course
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Heart to Yours”.
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Lucy Award (2000).
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1998· 1 entry
Williams began starring in the teen drama television series Dawson's Creek, created by Kevin Williamson and co-starring James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, and Joshua Jackson
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1997· 1 entry
Unhappy with the roles she was being offered, Williams collaborated with two other actors to write a script titled Blink, about prostitutes living in a Nevada brothel, which despite being sold to a production company was
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1980· 2 entries
In Kalispell, Montana, to Carla Ingrid Williams (née Swenson), a homemaker, and Larry R
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Born 1980-09-09.
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1845· 1 entry
It is based on an ill-fated historical incident on the Oregon Trail, in which the frontier guide Stephen Meek led a wagon train through a desert
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