Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams

Actor (b. 1980)
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The ThumbScore for Michelle Williams (72.4%) is the average audience approval rating across 30 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Michelle's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

30
Movies
72.4%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Michelle Williams’s films higher than 58% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Shutter Island (Pluto TV, Kanopy) · Synecdoche, New York (Fawesome) · The Station Agent (YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla) · Manchester by the Sea (Prime Video (free)) · My Week with Marilyn (Fandango at Home, ViX, Plex, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Species (Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Tubi, Hoopla, Fawesome) and 11 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Ben Kingsley (2)Patricia Clarkson (2)Tom Hardy (2)Reid Scott (2)Woody Harrelson (2)

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 1994. She gained emancipation from her parents at age 15. She soon achieved recognition for her leading role as Jen Lindley in the teen drama television series Dawson's Creek (1998–2003).

This was followed by low-profile films before she had her breakthrough with the drama film Brokeback Mountain (2005), which earned Williams her first Academy Award nomination. Williams received critical acclaim for playing emotionally troubled women coping with loss or loneliness in the independent dramas Wendy and Lucy (2008), Blue Valentine (2010), and Manchester by the Sea (2016). She won Golden Globes for portraying Marilyn Monroe in the drama My Week with Marilyn (2011) and Gwen Verdon in the miniseries Fosse/Verdon (2019) and a Primetime Emmy Award for the latter. Her highest-grossing releases came with the thriller Shutter Island (2010), the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), the musical The Greatest Showman (2017), and the superhero films Venom (2018) and Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021). Williams has also led major studio films, such as Ridley Scott's thriller All the Money in the World (2017) and Steven Spielberg's drama The Fabelmans (2022). On Broadway, Williams starred in revivals of the musical Cabaret in 2014 and the drama Blackbird in 2016, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Born 1980-09-09 in Kalispell, Montana, USA.

On ThumbScore, Michelle Williams appears in 30 films with an average audience score of 72.4%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Michelle Williams movie, ranked by audience score

Shutter Island
Shutter Island
2010
👍 89%
The Greatest Showman
The Greatest Showman
2017
👍 89%
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998
👍 88%
Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain
2005
👍 88%
Synecdoche, New York
Synecdoche, New York
2008
👍 87%
The Station Agent
The Station Agent
2003
👍 86%
Venom
Venom
2018
👍 84%
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021
👍 75%
Manchester by the Sea
Manchester by the Sea
2016
👍 75%
My Week with Marilyn
My Week with Marilyn
2011
👍 75%
Species
Species
1995
👍 73%
I Feel Pretty
I Feel Pretty
2018
👍 72%
The Fabelmans
The Fabelmans
2022
👍 71%
Suite Française
Suite Française
2015
👍 70%
The United States of Leland
The United States of Leland
2003
👍 70%
Wendy and Lucy
Wendy and Lucy
2008
👍 69%
Prozac Nation
Prozac Nation
2003
👍 69%
Imaginary Heroes
Imaginary Heroes
2004
👍 69%
Blue Valentine
Blue Valentine
2010
👍 68%
Take This Waltz
Take This Waltz
2011
👍 68%
Dick
Dick
1999
👍 68%
Meek's Cutoff
Meek's Cutoff
2011
👍 68%
Oz the Great and Powerful
Oz the Great and Powerful
2013
👍 67%
Lassie
Lassie
1994
👍 67%
If These Walls Could Talk 2
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
👍 66%
Deception
Deception
2008
👍 64%
Certain Women
Certain Women
2016
👍 61%
Wonderstruck
Wonderstruck
2017
👍 61%
Incendiary
Incendiary
2008
👍 59%
All the Money in the World
All the Money in the World
2017
👍 55%