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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Williams_%28actress%29>
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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>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
desideratum:
Something that is wished for, or considered desirable.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/desideratum>
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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>