After starting her career with television guest appearances in the early 1990s, Williams achieved recognition for her role as Jen Lindley on the The WB television teen drama Dawson's Creek, which she played from 1998 to 2003.
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Williams graduated to full-length features, including Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, her first mainstream film, Dick (1999), a comedy, and Prozac Nation (2001).
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From the 2000s Williams appeared primarily in dramatic, independent films for which she has received critical acclaim.
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A career highlight was 2005's controversial movie, Brokeback Mountain, about a male homosexual relationship in the 1960s, which earned Williams a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the Academy Awards.
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She followed this with I'm Not There (2007), Synecdoche, New York (2008) and Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010). Williams's performance as a drifter in 2008's Wendy and Lucy earned her critical praise and her work opposite Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine (2010) received another Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress.
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She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her critically acclaimed portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn (2011), which also garnered her third Academy Award nomination, second nomination for Best Actress.
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She is scheduled to appear next in 2013's Oz: The Great and Powerful.
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Williams had a high-profile relationship with actor and Brokeback Mountain co-star, Heath Ledger.
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$41.1 million in ticket sales at over 2,900 locations, Shutter Island gave Williams her widest release and best opening weekend stats.
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She also appeared in the flick I'm Not There alongside Cate Blanchett and Heath Ledger.
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Michelle Williams landed a series of small roles in television projects, such as Raising Caines, My Son Is Innocent and Killing Mr. Griffin.
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Williams rounded out the year by joining Miramax Films's BAFTA-winning The Station Agent.
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The saffron Vera Wang dress which she wore to the Academy Awards in March 2006 has been cited by Cosmopolitan magazine as one of the Best Oscar dresses of all time.
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Williams returned with The Hawk Is Dying (2007), also starring Michael Pitt.
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The Hottest State with Ethan Hawke and I'm Not There, in which she starred alongside Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Julianne Moore, and Heath Ledger.
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Williams was also apart of the biographical ensemble piece I'm Not There, inspired by musician Bob Dylan, as a representation of Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick.
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Williams was cast over Kate Hudson, Scarlett Johansson, and Amy Adams as Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn, a British drama based on two novels by Colin Clark, depicting the making of the film The Prince and the Showgirl.
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During 2011, it was reported that Williams signed on to star in Walt Disney Pictures's Oz, The Great and Powerful, a 3-D prequel to be released March 8, 2013.
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Michelle Williams starred in My Week With Marilyn in 2011, and her performance as Marilyn Monroe won her a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama.
