Michelle
Williams - Jennifer Lindley
"Dawson's"
may be her first starring role in a series, but Michelle Williams is already
a veteran of numerous feature films and television projects. The proverbial
small town girl, Williams was born and raised in rural Kalispell, Mont.,before
moving with her family to San Diego when she was 10 years old. She became
involved in community theater productions and was soon commuting to Los
Angeles for professional auditions At age 14, Williams made her big-screen
debut in the 1994 family film "Lassie," and was soon cast as the young
alien in the film "Species." Most recently, Michelle was seen in the dramatic
feature "A Thousand Acres," starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Jason
Leigh, Jason Robards and Jessica Lange. In television, she starred in the
television movie "A Mother's Justice." In her free time, 17-year-old Williams
is an avid reader, with her current favorite authors being Hermann Hesse,
Dostoyevsky and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. She also enjoys boxing, which feeds
into her early childhood fantasy of becoming the first female heavyweight
champion of the world.