Michelle Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress. Her accolades include two Golden Globe Awards, and she has been nominated for four Academy Awards and one Tony Award. She made her feature film debut in Lassie (1994), and starred in the television teen drama series Dawson's Creek (1998–2003). She earned her first Academy Award nomination playing the wife of a gay man in Brokeback Mountain (2005). Williams played troubled characters in the independent dramas Wendy and Lucy (2008), Blue Valentine (2010), and Manchester by the Sea (2016). For portraying Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn (2011) and Gwen Verdon in Fosse/Verdon, she won two Golden Globe Awards. 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 film Venom (2018). She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the role of a sexually abused woman in Blackbird.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1320:
Byzantine forces defeated Achaean troops at the Battle of Saint George, taking control of the Arcadia region of Greece. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saint_George
1954:
An earthquake registering 6.7 Mw struck near Chlef, Algeria, leaving at least 1,243 people dead, and forcing the government to implement comprehensive reforms in building codes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Chlef_earthquake
2010:
A natural-gas pipeline in San Bruno, California, exploded (damage pictured) and "shot a fireball more than 1,000 feet (300 m) in the air", killing eight people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
desideratum: Something that is wished for, or considered desirable. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/desideratum
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it. --Cesare Pavese https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cesare_Pavese