Innate inside Kalispell, Montana, USA, she is the eldest of the 5 tikes of Larry, the good factor, & Carlthe Williams, a woman of the house. After she was nine, her personal moved to San Diego, California. Her mother took her to auditions within Los Angeles where she won her first film role, as a space alien world health organization turned into Natasha Henstridge in the 1995 movie Coinage. She graduated from either either highschool at 15 & was freed from her parents and then she may pursue an acting career. She win many little roles prior to she wwhen cast as Jen Lindley on Dawson's Creek, the part that would make her a star.

In Dawson's Creek'', her character, lone xv, experienced been bay for her parents to address, sucking down, partying, know from either either age dozen, then she was exiled from her zero in New York City, to live in Capeside, Massachusetts with her maternal grannie. Jen was all about her granny was does'nt: jaded, misanthropical, irreligious, & additional, leading to frequent arguments & her at length existence kicked away from a home. A indicate would run captain hicks seasons, from either 1998 to 2003.

Her foremost starring role around films wwhen as Arlene around Dick (1999), a irony where she starred sustaining Kirsten Dunst on Richard M. Nixon.

She has been inside the half-pack subsequent films, occasionally of the children easily-reviewed (e.g. A Stationmaster, Pine tree state While forgoing Busy people), however none stand been awesome commercial successes.

She is engaged to actor Heath Ledger, with whom she is expecting her number 1 baby. She met Ledger on the placed of Brokeback Mountain.

Partial Filmography
The Baxter (2005) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Imaginary Heroes (2004) The Station Agent (2003) The United States of Leland (2003) Prozac Nation (2001) Me Without You (film) (2001) If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) (TV) ''But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) Dick (1999) Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) Dawson's Creek (1998) (TV series) A Thousand Acres (1997) Killing Mr. Griffin (1997) (TV) Species (1995) Lassie'' (1994)