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Michelle Williams
Michelle Williams gained recognition from her breakthrough role as Jen Lindley on the teen drama Dawson’s Creek from 1998 to 2003. She went on to star in critically acclaimed films Brokeback Mountain (2005), Shutter Island (2010), Blue Valentine (2010), My Week with Marilyn (2011), Manchester by the Sea (2016) and The Fabelmans (2022), earning five Academy Award nominations and four BAFTA nominations for her roles.
Williams won an Emmy in 2019 for the limited series Fosse/Verdon. She has also appeared in The Greatest Showman (2017), All the Money in the World (2017), Venom (2018) and Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021). Her theater credits include Broadway’s Cabaret in 2014 and Blackbird in 2016, the latter of which earned her a Tony nomination.
The actress dated her Brokeback Mountain costar Heath Ledger from 2004 to 2007. The couple welcomed daughter Matilda in October 2005, three years before Ledger’s death. Williams was briefly engaged to Andrew Youmans in 2018, but the pair called it quits later that year. She was briefly married to Phil Elverum from 2018 to 2019 before moving on with Thomas Kail, whom she secretly married in 2020. The couple welcomed son Hart in 2020 and another baby in 2022.
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