| Michelle
Williams was born in a small town called Kalispell in Montana.
By the age of ten, she moved to San Diego where her parents enrolled
her in a community theatre. Williams quickly caught the acting
bug and she soon found herself traveling back and forth from San
Diego to Los Angeles on a regular basis for professional auditions.
Williams'
first screen debut was at the age of fourteen in an adaptation
of the Lassie. Her career then shifted towards a darker road with
appearances in two science-fiction movies called Timemaster and
Species, where she played the little scared human-alien hybrid
that escapes from the government lab and eventually evolves into
a fully grown Natasha Henstridge.
Convinced
by her acting talents and the signs that her career was starting
to heat up, Williams turned to accelerated home schooling and
graduated early. She then moved into a small Burbank apartment
at the age of 15. The transition was difficult for both her and
her family.
Michelle
landed a series of small roles in television projects such as
Killing Mr. Griffin, Kangaroo Palace the mini series, as well
as a guest appearance on Home Improvement. Michelle also landed
a role as Michelle Pfeiffer's daughter in A Thousand Acres, a
successful story about the break-up of a modern American farming
family.
Michelle
Williams is perhaps best known for her role as Jennifer Lindley
on Dawson's Creek, a show that opens a window into the lives of
four friends with many adolescent issues. Williams admits to drawing
on her own life experiences to inform her characterization of
Dawson's Jennifer Lindley. The show made her instantly recognizable
as Jennifer. Jennifer is the on-again, off-again girlfriend of
Dawson Leery played by James Van Der Beek, the main character
of the show. Williams' role on the show has given her a certain
level of notoriety.
Her career took a serious turn towards the big screen in 1998,
when she landed a supporting role alongside Jamie Lee Curtis in
Halloween H20. In her next big screen flick, Williams co-starred
with Kirsten Dunst in the comedy Dick, a movie about two girls
who wander away from their White House group tour and become mixed
up in the Watergate affair.
Michelle
is currently single, but she admits that she does get asked out
more often now that she is an actress than she did when she was
a student. Michelle is also an avid reader, with interest in such
authors as Herman Hesse, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and Fyodor Dostoyevsky |