Michelle Williams has reportedly given birth to her third child.
The actress is also mom to sixteen-year-old Matilda, whose father is the late Heath Ledger, and her and Thomas Kail’s son, 2-year-old Hart.
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Michelle Williams is known as the star of the teen drama Dawson’s Creek.
From then onwards she leaped to fame.
Her Oscar-nominated performances in Brokeback Mountain, Blue Valentine, My Week with Marilyn and Manchester by the Sea appealed to the masses.
But did you know at just fifteen-years-old Williams ran away from home to pursue her career in Hollywood?
She later emphasized that the move had nothing to do with any trouble with her family…
But simply because she wanted a better shot at a career, and it obviously soon paid off.
While her teen show Dawson’s Creek made her a star, Williams reflected on her experience and said she feared being typecasted as a “pop tart.”
So she considered her next steps in her career carefully.
“I said to a friend [that] being on Dawson’s Creek was kind of like being a mobster.
“You set up a shop selling pizza, but in the back you’re laundering money. You’re doing one thing in plain sight and secretly plotting something else. I was plotting my tastes, my interests, my beliefs and hopes for what I could be,” she explained.
Williams then took part in a variety of movies, ranging from a comedy to horror.
Eventually, she found her calling, though, in independent films such as Me Without You, Prozac Nation, and The Station Agent.
“I remember when I was 18 and I was offered this play called Killer Joe, and I was also offered a movie about cheerleaders who carry guns,” Williams explained.
“And Killer Joe was, I don’t know, maybe a 200-seat house, making scale. And the cheerleader movie was the kind of money that you can live off of for a long time to come. And I remember seeing the paths diverge. And I remember how easy the choice was. And so to me that feels like the beginning. That feels like where I began to develop my taste. I did the play, obviously,” she added.
But it was only in 2005 that her big break came when she appeared in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain as the wife of a closeted gay rancher.
The movie was a critical and financial success, and Williams was then nominated for her first Academy Award for supporting actress for the role.
But that’s not all the happy news…
In that same year, Williams got engaged to Brokeback co-star Heath Ledger and gave birth to their daughter, Matilda Rose, on October 28.
But difficulties arose in Williams’ personal life when she and Ledger split in the fall of 2007.
Ledger then died tragically in 2008 of a prescription drug overdose, and grieving Williams had to deal with both her personal mourning for the father of her child and the intrusion of the paparazzi into her life.
“I experienced a lot of loss after his death,” she admitted.
“I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough … Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I’m still sort of looking for that.
Williams later described the year following Ledger’s death as a “year of magical thinking … In a strange way, I miss that year, because all those possibilities that existed then are gone. It didn’t seem unlikely to me that he could walk through a door or could appear behind a bush,” Williams said.
She then threw herself back into work for a year…
And she released 4 films in short period of time.
Soon after, she went to the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 to promote 2 films, Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, and the critically acclaimed independent film Wendy and Lucy, from director Kelly Reichardt.
Us Weekly then confirmed in December 2019 that Williams was engaged to Thomas Kail and in January 2020, were “very happy and thrilled to be bringing a baby into the world.”
This would be Williams’ second child.
The couple stepped out for the 2020 Golden globes that month…
And she took home the trophy for Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for Fosse/Verdon.
Williams gave a big shoutout to Kail and her firstborn, Matilda, in her speech.
“As women and as girls, things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice,” she said.
“I’ve tried my very best to live a life of my own making and not just a series of events that happened to me, but one that I could stand back and look at and recognize my handwriting all over it.
“I wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose. To choose when to have my children and with whom. When I felt supported and able to balance our lives, knowing as all mothers know that the scales must and will tilt towards our children,” she continued.
And the next part of the speech will melt your hearts…
“Tommy and Matilda, I can’t wait to come home to you,” she concluded.
2 months later it was reported that the pair tied the knot and their son was born in June 2020.
And just 2 years later Williams announced her third pregnancy…
“It’s totally joyous,” she told Variety in May this year.
“As the years go on, you sort of wonder what they might hold for you or not hold for you. It’s exciting to discover that something you want again and again, is available one more time. That good fortune is not lost on me or my family. … There’s nothing that makes you committed to a better world than raising a great kid,” Williams said.
And according to ET Online, Williams is now a mother of 3!
The actress was photographed on Saturday as she walked along with her husband in New York City, while she held onto a newborn baby in a carrier on her chest.
Reportedly, the couple’s 2-year-old son, Hart, was also pictured.
Congratulations!