Michelle Williams is an actress, Hollywood star, winner of the Golden Globe and numerous Oscar nominees. She has accounted for about fifty roles in films and TV shows. Very often, Michelle plays women with a difficult fate, experiencing tragic events or a serious crisis. By coincidence, in the life of the actress herself, there was also a place for drama and pain of irreparable loss.
Biography: childhood and early career
Michel Ingrid Williams has Norwegian roots. She was born on September 9, 1980. The family lived in the city of Kalispell, Montana. Mom was engaged in household work, father traded on the stock exchange. The future actress grew up surrounded by three paternal stepbrothers and a younger sister, Page. Remembering her childhood, she always emphasized a close relationship with her father Larry Williams, who taught her shooting and fishing, instilled a love of reading, and devoted to the intricacies of stock trading. The head of the family was a very versatile person. He tried his hand at politics: in 1978 and 1982 he ran for the US Senate from the Republican Party. Larry Williams is also known as the winner of the world futures trading championship with a record profit of 11300% in 12 months. He won in 1987, and 9 years later, young Michelle repeated his success and became the first woman to win this competition.
In 1989, the family moved to San Diego, California. Michelle hardly got used to the new environment, feeling lonely and lost. She found unexpected consolation in the acting profession. After evaluating her daughter’s performance in the amateur production of the musical “Annie, ” her parents took her to audition in Los Angeles. Michelle began to play small roles in the series:
- "Malibu safeguards";
- Lassie
- "Step by step";
- "Big repair."
The career of the actress took up more and more time. At a Christian school, Santa Fe Williams studied until the ninth grade, but felt extremely uncomfortable there. With the approval of her parents, she switched to home schooling. At 15, the girl received legal exemption from her parents, which allowed her to work on an equal basis with adults. For this, Michelle had to go through a three-year high school curriculum in 9 months. She later said that she regretted losing her education. But at that moment, Williams could finally focus on her acting career. The first thing she moved to Los Angeles. She starred in low-budget films, series, commercials.
Creativity: the path to success and star roles
The finest hour for the aspiring actress was the youth series Dawson's Creek, in which she played for six seasons from 1998 to 2003. This work provided Michelle financial stability, so in her free time she preferred roles in independent cinema. In 1999, Williams tried his hand at the theater stage. In 2000, she appears in the provocative role of a lesbian in the television movie If Walls Could Talk 2. In the early 2000s, Michelle gets interesting roles one after another:
- “With and without you” (2001);
- Prozac Nation (2001);
- “Station Warden” (2003);
- "Land of Plenty" (2004).
The actress is increasingly praised by critics, she has the first nominations for famous film awards. But for the full and unconditional recognition of the public, there is not enough role in a large Hollywood film, which the whole world will talk about. Such a picture for Williams was the sensational drama "Brokeback Mountain", which tells about the love of two men. Michelle played the wife of one of the main characters, a hard-pressed husband's betrayal and homosexuality. For this role, she received her first Academy Award nomination, and Brokeback Mountain won three Academy Award nominations.
In the status of a young Hollywood star, Williams began a little more demanding approach to the choice of roles. The most discussed projects of the actress of the end of the zero:
- “I am not there” (2007);
- “Contact List” (2008);
- Wendy and Lucy (2008);
- Mammoth (2009);
- “Island of the Damned” (2010).
In these films, Michelle's partners on the set were Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, Gael Garcia Bernal, Leonardo DiCaprio. In 2008, she temporarily suspended her career due to a tragedy in her personal life. But the director of the film "Valentine" patiently waited for her recovery, because he had not seen anyone else in the role of Cindy - the main female character. The plot of the picture spoke about the family crisis experienced by a young married couple. The screen duet of Williams and Ryan Gosling played brightly and convincingly, for which both actors received nominations for the Golden Globe and Oscar in 2010.
In the box of box office and popular films with Michelle Williams, it is undoubtedly worth adding the dramatic western “Mick's Bypass” (2010), for which she specially studied shooting and knitting. The actress received the long-awaited Golden Globe in 2011 for her role as Marilyn Monroe in the film 7 Days and Nights with Marilyn. And although Michelle outwardly looked a little like a sex symbol of the past, she did a great job on herself for the role.
Williams gained a new experience thanks to the role of the good witch Glinda in the fabulous film "Oz: The Great and Terrible" of 2013. Wanting to focus on maternal responsibilities, the actress accepted an invitation to perform on Broadway. In 2014, she appeared on the stage as Sally Bowles in the famous musical Cabaret. Michelle rehearsed with music and dance teachers for a long time before the premiere. In 2016, she played in a production of Blackbird paired with Jeff Daniels. Williams received the Tony Theater Award for the role of a woman who has experienced sexual abuse during her teens.
Return to the big screen took place in 2016. Two films with the participation of the actress were immediately released: “Several Women” and “Manchester by the Sea”. The latter brought her the fourth Oscar nomination. Michelle Williams latest movies:
- “A world full of miracles” (2017);
- “All the money of the world” (2017);
- The Greatest Showman (2017);
- Venom (2018);
- “Beauty on the whole head” (2018).
