GG: Best Actress - Musical/Comedy - Michelle Williams

Name: Michelle Williams

Age: 31

Character: Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn

Film: In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark, just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller.

Nearly 40 years on, his diary account ‘The Prince, the Showgirl and Me’ was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as ‘My Week with Marilyn’ - this is the story of that week.

Previous Golden Globe Wins: Williams has no previous Globe wins.

Previous Golden Globe Nominations: She has two previous Golden Globe nominations: Best Actress for Brokeback Mountain & Blue Valentine.

Award/Nominations for role: She has picked up Best Actress gongs at the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, Hollywood Film festival Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards.

She has also received nominations from Screen Actors Guild Awards, Satellite Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, New York Critics Circle Awards.

Critics: “In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark, just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Nearly 40 years on, his diary account ‘The Prince, the Showgirl and Me’ was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as ‘My Week with Marilyn’ - this is the story of that week.” FemaleFirst

“What matters is the performance by Michelle Williams. She evokes so many Marilyns, public and private, real and make-believe. We didn't know Monroe, but we believe she must have been something like this.” - Chicago Sun Times

“A triumphantly entertaining examination of the ultimate movie icon, miraculously embodied by Michelle Williams.” - Film Journal International

Take a look at the other nominees:

Kate Winslet

Charlize Theron

Jodie Foster

Kristen Wiig

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw