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.article continued below...

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

• Chosen as one of Teen People Magazine's 21 Hottest Stars Under 21 in 1999
• Michelle Williams' childhood fantasy is to become the first female heavyweight champion of the world
• Calls the making of Timemaster is the worst experience of her career
• Michelle Williams won Lucy Award at Women in Film Lucy Awards in 2000 and was nominated Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actress in 2000 for Dick.