Michelle Williams: Four Films Coming Out And In Her First Interview Since January

MICHELLE WILLIAMS has an Academy Award nomination, the open adulation of major filmmakers and a résumé that is striking in its worldliness and creative ambition. But if her career has seemed to progress almost inconspicuously, it is partly because of its introspective bent -- small movies, subtle performances -- and partly because it has lately existed in the shadow of her personal life. Ms. Williams's maturity and capacity for quietly wrenching pathos were apparent even on the teenage soap "Dawson's Creek," on which she played the troubled Jen Lindley. In her film roles she has revealed a gift both for screwball comedy ("Dick," "The Baxter") and bruising emotional drama (most memorably in her Oscar-nominated performance as the spurned wife Alma in Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain"). She has repeatedly taken chances on under-the-radar indies ("The Station Agent," "The Hawk Is Dying") while catching the attention of auteurs like Wim Wenders ("Land of Plenty"), Todd Haynes ("I'm Not There") and ... (link)