Biography
Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress. Known primarily for starring in small-scale independent films with dark or tragic themes, she has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for five Academy Awards and a Tony Award. Williams, daughter of politician and trader Larry R. Williams, began her career with television guest appearances and made her film debut in the family film Lassie in 1...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Deep Sky
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Explores the $10 billion JWST's engineering and construction process, historic Dec. 25, 2021 launch, and the release of its first full-color, galaxy-s...

Showing Up
2023
as Lizzy
In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationships with family, friends, and colleagues.

The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
2023
as Self
A fascinating behind-the-scenes special about Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans."

The Fabelmans
2022
as Mitzi Fabelman
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shatte...

Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021
as Anne Weying
After finding a host body in investigative reporter Eddie Brock, the alien symbiote must face a new enemy, Carnage, the alter ego of serial killer Cle...

That Click
2019
as Self
A man at the cutting edge of fashion, photojournalism and portraiture, photographer to the stars Douglas Kirkland has portrayed over sixty years of po...

After the Wedding
2019
as Isabel
Seeking funds for her orphanage in India, Isabelle travels to New York to meet Theresa, a wealthy benefactor. An invitation to attend a wedding ignite...

Venom
2018
as Anne Weying
Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of Venom, a violent, super powerful al...

Always at The Carlyle
2018
as Self (archive footage)
The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorker...

I Feel Pretty
2018
as Avery LeClair
A head injury causes a woman to develop an extraordinary amount of confidence and believe she's drop dead gorgeous.

All the Money in the World
2017
as Gail Harris
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather...

The Greatest Showman
2017
as Charity Barnum
The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Wonderstruck
2017
as Elaine
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the s...

Project X
2016
as Narrator 2 (voice)
A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to Titanpointe, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Wil...

Manchester by the Sea
2016
as Randi Chandler
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tr...

Certain Women
2016
as Gina
Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled ...

Suite Française
2015
as Lucille Angellier
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they...

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condolence letters written to Jackie Kennedy after JFK's ...

Oz the Great and Powerful
2013
as Annie / Glinda
Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wiza...

Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012
as Self
Charming, intelligent and iconoclastic, Ben Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter whose creative growth since his early adolescence has undergone alm...

Take This Waltz
2011
as Margot
Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives acro...

My Week with Marilyn
2011
as Marilyn Monroe
London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince an...

My Week with Marilyn
2011
Songs
London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince an...

Meek's Cutoff
2011
as Emily Tetherow
A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

Blue Valentine
2010
as Cindy
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his...

Blue Valentine
2010
Executive Producer
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his...

Shutter Island
2010
as Dolores
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his ...

Where the Wild Things Are
2009
Thanks
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—cr...

Heath Ledger: A Tribute
2009
as Self
On January 22, 2008, the entertainment world was rocked by news that one of its brightest young stars had unexpectedly died. This film is a commemorat...

Mammoth
2009
as Ellen Vidales
While on a trip to Thailand, a successful American businessman tries to radically change his life. Back in New York, his wife and daughter find their ...

Wendy and Lucy
2008
as Wendy
A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

Synecdoche, New York
2008
as Claire Keen
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as ...

Deception
2008
as S
As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chanc...

Incendiary
2008
as Young Mother
A woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a soccer match.

I'm Not There
2007
as Coco Rivington
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger...

The Hottest State
2007
as Samantha
A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.

The Hawk Is Dying
2007
as Betty
A Gainesville Florida auto upholsterer attempts to subvert his mundane life by training a wild, red-tailed hawk.

Brokeback Mountain
2005
as Alma Beers
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they ge...

The Baxter
2005
as Cecil Mills
A man with a "doormat" personality tries standing up for himself for a change in this comedy. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman is what he c...

Imaginary Heroes
2004
as Penny Travis
Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the f...

Land of Plenty
2004
as Lana
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.

A Hole in One
2004
as Anna Watson
A gangster makes an employee pose as a doctor to prevent his troubled girlfriend from getting a lobotomy.

The Station Agent
2003
as Emily
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a w...

Dawson's Creek - The Series Finale (Extended Cut)
2003
as Jen Lindley
With its series-finale episode, Dawson's Creek summed up its six-year run on the WB Network with a sweet and sad tale of reunion and farewell for old ...

The United States of Leland
2003
as Julie Pollard
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfrien...

Heart of America
2003
Third Assistant Director
It is the last day of high school and the unthinkable is about to happen. Distraught at the constant abuse and bullying they have been subjected to, t...

Me Without You
2001
as Holly
During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fie...

Prozac Nation
2001
as Ruby
When talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chance to escape the pressures of her working-class ba...

Perfume
2001
as Halley
A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York Ci...

But I'm a Cheerleader
2000
as Kimberly
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy wit...

If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
as Linda
The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Ed...

Dick
1999
as Arlene Lorenzo
Two high school girls wander off during a class trip to the White House and meet President Richard Nixon. They become the official dog walkers for Nix...

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998
as Molly Cartwell
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael ...

A Thousand Acres
1997
as Pammy
The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.

Killing Mr. Griffin
1997
as Maya
After being humiliated in English class by his teacher Mr. Griffin, High School student Mark Kinney and his friends plot their revenge. The prank goes...

My Son Is Innocent
1996
as Donna
After a brutal nighttime attack on a woman alone in her suburban home, police investigators zero in on teenager Eric Sutter. When the victim identifie...

Species
1995
as Young Sil
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on ho...

Timemaster
1995
as Annie
Young Jesse is traveling through time in order to stop some evil virtual reality fight managers from a parallel universe trying to destroy Earth.

Lassie
1994
as April Porter
On their way to start a new life at a sheep farm in rural Virginia, the Turner family are halted by a wreck on the highway that has claimed the life o...
A Place in Hell
N/A
A top criminal defense attorney, known for representing unlikeable clients in high-profile cases, is a relentless workhorse at her firm and fully expe...
This Is Jane
N/A
Producer
Dissatisfied with the state of health services available in the United States during the 1960s, an activist in Chicago forms a group that provides edu...