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Inside Michelle Williams and Jeremy Strong's Decades-Long Friendship


Michelle Williams and Jeremy Strong share a decades-long friendship built on support, collaboration and their shared bond with Williams' daughter Matilda

“We were both very young without real access to an interior of a life in the theater or in cinema,” Williams recalled during a May 2025 appearance on NPR’s “Fresh Air” podcast. Michelle Williams may have gotten her start on a teen drama — but her time on Dawson’s Creek created the “stabilizing force” that helped her launch her career. Michelle Williams, Jeremy StrongGetty Images (2)“He would be engaged for as long as Matilda wanted to be on fairy princesses or tea parties or dress up,” she recalled.

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