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Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress. Known primarily for starring in small-scale independent films with dark or tragic themes, she has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for five Academy Awards and a Tony Award. Williams, daughter of politician and trader Larry R. Williams, began her career with television guest appearances and made her film debut in the family film Lassie in 1994. She gained emancipation from her parents at age 15. She soon achieved recognition for her leading role as Jen Lindley in the teen drama television series Dawson's Creek (1998–2003). This was followed by low-profile films before she had her breakthrough with the drama film Brokeback Mountain (2005), which earned Williams her first Academy Award nomination. Williams received critical acclaim for playing emotionally troubled women coping with loss or loneliness in the independent dramas Wendy and Lucy (2008), Blue Valentine (2010), and Manchester by the Sea (2016). She won Golden Globes for portraying Marilyn Monroe in the drama My Week with Marilyn (2011) and Gwen Verdon in the miniseries Fosse/Verdon (2019) and a Primetime Emmy Award for the latter. 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 films Venom (2018) and Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021). Williams has also led major studio films, such as Ridley Scott's thriller All the Money in the World (2017) and Steven Spielberg's drama The Fabelmans (2022). On Broadway, Williams starred in revivals of the musical Cabaret in 2014 and the drama Blackbird in 2016, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She is an advocate for equal pay in the workplace. Consistently private about her personal life, Williams has a daughter from her relationship with actor Heath Ledger and was briefly married to musician Phil Elverum. She has three children with her second husband, theatre director Thomas Kail. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michelle Williams (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The show opens in "Dust Acres," a bleak, monochrome trailer park in Kansas. Sixteen-year-old Amy Gumm sings of her isolation, her mother’s substance abuse, and the relentless bullying she faces at school ("Salina, Kansas"). When a sudden, violent tornado rips through the county, Amy’s trailer is pulled into the sky. The stage explodes into color and discordant sound as the trailer crashes into a ruined Land of Oz. The vibrant yellow brick road is cracked, gray, and leaking magic. Amy is pulled from the wreckage by Pete, a mysterious palace gardener who cryptically tells her to head to the Emerald City before vanishing. Amy encounters Indigo, a goth Munchkin covered in historical tattoos of an uncorrupted Oz, and Ollie, a talking monkey whose wings were brutally amputated by the crown. Their journey is cut short when Dorothy’s grand inquisitor, the Tin Woodman, ambushes them ("The Iron Fist"). Indigo is killed defending Amy, and Amy is hauled away to the Emerald City in chains. In the Emerald Castle, Amy meets Dorothy Gale. Dorothy is no longer a sweet farm girl; she is a vicious tyrant who drains Oz's natural magic to fuel her own power and vanity ("Perfect Little Girl"). Imprisoned and sentenced to a horrific public trial, Amy is suddenly broken out by Mombi, a high-ranking witch of the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked. Mombi teleports Amy to an underground cavern network, introducing her to Glamora and the rebel fighters, including the hostile, brooding warlock Nox. They reveal a prophecy: someone from the "Other World" must undo what Dorothy did. They offer Amy a choice: join them or die in Oz ("The Order's Decree"). Amy chooses to fight. A grueling, magical, and physical training sequence follows, during which Amy and Nox find common ground amidst their shared trauma ("Wicked Work").
