She may have won herself a Golden Globe for her role in My Week with Marilyn but Michelle Williams says she considers herself a mother first and an actress second.
As she accepted her award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) category at this year’s 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards, she praised her six-year-old daughter Matilda and dedicated the award to her.
“I consider myself a mother first and an actress second, and so the person I most want to thank is my daughter, my little girl, whose bravery and exuberance is the example that I take with me in my work and in my life,” she said during her acceptance speech.
Williams beat the likes of fellow A-listers Charlize Theron and Kate Winslet to take out the award.
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The 31-year-old continued to praise her daughter, whom she welcomed in 2005 with then-boyfriend Heath Ledger, throughout her speech.
“I want to say thank you for sending me off to this job every day with a hug and a kiss. I couldn’t have done it any other way. It made me so excited to come home at night,” she said.
“And for suffering for six months of bedtime stories, where all the princesses were read aloud in a Marilyn Monroe-sounding voice.”
William’s also thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for bestowing her with the same Award Monroe won “more than 50 years ago.”
