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Michelle Williams: Dawson's Creek
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Michelle Williams, like her character Jennifer Lindley on DAWSON'S CREEK, is making the transition from big city to small town life. The 17-year-old actress moved from Los Angeles to Wilmington, North Carolina, the production location for the series. As Williams recounts, "It's quite a change from Los Angeles. It's beautiful and a nice pace for awhile, but at first it was a strange switch from the city and traffic. Having the experience of moving from a big city to a small town does make it easier to relate to Jen...." Williams explains that her character "is an outsider coming to Capeside from a fast-paced New York lifestyle.
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Michelle Williams has starred on Dawson's Creek since it's debut. Set for release in 2003, Williams will co-star in PROZAC NATION, based on Elizabeth Wurtzel's best-selling novel, with Christina Ricci, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Jessica Lange. Williams is ... featured in the film THE UNITED STATES OF LELAND, co-starring Kevin Spacey and Don Cheadle. The film debuts at Sundance in January 2003. In addition Williams co-stars in THE STATION AGENT which also debuts at Sundance in January 2003. Williams is currently in production on A Hole in One.
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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.
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Michelle Williams, a small town girl born and raised in rural Kalispell Montana, had numerous small Movie and TV parts before scoring a regular part in the now popular "Dawson's Creek" (1998). She was the young alien in the movie Species (1995) and then was seen in A Thousand Acres (1997).
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As semi-reformed bad girl Jennifer Lindley on "Dawson's Creek", actress "Michelle Williams" has garnered a certain type of notoriety unavailable to her more morality-inclined co-stars. In spite of this notoriety--or perhaps because of it--the role has provided Williams with a wealth of opportunities, making her one of the foremost teen stars of the late 1990s.
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Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. Williams broke into stardom on the teen series Dawson's Creek and later graduated to full length features, such as Brokeback Mountain, for which she earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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