Michelle Williams

Michelle Ingrid Williams was born on September 9, 1980 in Kalispell, Montana, USA. Of Norwegian ancestry, she spent her childhood surrounded by nature, although at the age of nine the family moved to San Diego, California. Her father, a businessman, had political aspirations, twice running unsuccessfully as a Republican Senate candidate. She has a little sister and three half-siblings from her father’s previous marriage. She was always very independent, and from an early age she was attracted to being an actress, although her training in this regard is non-existent, beyond the typical school theater groups. So that she made her debut on the small screen in her teens, she could be seen in such popular series as Un botched at home and Step by step. In cinema its premiere was with a dog movie, The Return of Lassie (1994), with the popular collie dog.

Emancipated from her parents at the age of 15, it seems that she was a victim of bullying at school, to the point that her mother would act as a home tutor to complete her studies. This did not prevent her from embodying unfriendly roles, such as that of the young version of Sil –that is, Natasha Henstridge– , the dangerous alien with a seductive human appearance in Species .

Since 1998 he will remain with the main character for 6 years in the youth television series Dawson Grows , where he becomes as popular as his companions James Van Der Beek and Katie Holmes . In cinema, he will consolidate trying a bit of everything, be it drama ( You will inherit the earth , 1997) or adolescent horror ( Halloween H20 , 1998). With Kirsten Dunst he will make life impossible for President Richard Nixon himself in the comedy Adventures in the White House (1999).

In this situation, perhaps the easiest thing for Michelle would have been to embark on commercial productions, but the actress has always had an “indie” point, she likes challenges. It doesn’t always get it right in that sense – I’m nobody without you or Prozak Nation are completely forgettable – but when it does, how wonderful, see Crossroads (2003), a song of Thomas McCarthy friendship , and Land of Plenty (2004) . ), Wim Wenders ‘ personal vision of the American reaction to 9/11.

In cinema, her apotheosis comes with Brokeback Mountain ( Ang Lee , 2005), her role as wife in this story of gay cowboys dazzles the Academy, which recognizes her with an Oscar nomination as a supporting actress. He also meets and falls in love with his co-star Heath Ledger , with whom he will maintain a relationship that lasts until 2007, who gave him a daughter, Matilda, born in 2005. Unfortunately, at the beginning of 2008 Ledger died of an overdose of tranquilizers. “For a long time I felt like an open wound with legs,” she stated of her feelings for such an unexpected death. After this, she Williams dated director Spike Jonze for a few months , but it didn’t pan out.

The media celebrity does not prevent Williams from remaining committed to risky films, with unconventional plots. She appears fleetingly in variations on the life of Bob Dylan from I’m Not There (2007). In 2008 she stars in the road-movie Wendy and Lucy and plays Synecdoche, New York for the “Martian” Charlie Kaufman . She will also share the screen with the Mexican Gael García Bernal in Mamut (2009), a film about globalization.

After putting herself under the command of Martin Scorsese in Shutter Island (2009), with a secondary role, she stars in Blue Valentine (2010), which is worth being nominated for an Oscar, this time as the lead actress. She replies to another rising and regular “indie” actor – Ryan Gosling , with whom she had already made Leland’s World – in an extreme, unconventional and somewhat depressive love story. The theme of marital ups and downs is also present in Take This Waltz (2011), where it is directed by another actress, Sarah Polley .

The truth is that at just over thirty years old, Williams’ career is enviable for the variety and challenge posed by his characters. After returning to the western and to director Kelly Reichardt with Meek’s Cutoff (2010), she has put herself under the skin of the mythical Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn (2011), a challenge from which she has come out very well, judging by the Globe. Gold Award and his third Oscar nomination. He can now afford a film for all audiences that hopes to reawaken the magic of The Wizard of Oz , Oz: The Great and Powerful , directed by Sam Raimi and accompanied by James Franco , among others..