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We couldn’t imagine a better photo! Actress Michelle Williams walks with her daughter Matilda Ledger, wearing pink Hunter boots and carrying a pirate umbrella (cool sword handle and pirates on the umbrella!) to their favorite coffee shop in the rain in Brooklyn.

Photo by Christopher Peterson/BuzzFoto.com

Michelle and Matilida’s Weekend Smoothie

Actress Michelle Williams and daughter Matilda Ledger scootered over to Nectar Cafe for a smoothie in Brooklyn, New York. Read more

Michelle and Matilda Skip Through NYC

Actress Michelle Williams and getting cuter every day Matilda Ledger skipped and danced their way to their favorite mommy cafe in matching Ugg boots on a bitter cold day in Brooklyn, New York. The two looked very happy and content to be back in New York City after a stay in Los Angeles for the Oscars. Throughout the tragedy of the last year, the two looked to be enjoying the day.

“Michelle has this amazing stillness,” says Kelly Reichardt, who directed and cowrote the film Wendy and Lucy that Michelle is staring in. “There’s stuff going on inside. You can see it in her eyes.”
Sources say that ‘the pain of Williams’ separation from Ledger is part of what imbues the role with such palpable forlornness. The couple were living together in Brooklyn, engaged to be married, and had a little girl, Matilda. They broke up right before Williams went off to make “Wendy and Lucy.”

Ledger died, of an overdose, less than six months later. It’s not something she wants to talk about.

But Williams will say that she found it nurturing, and healing, to work with Reichardt and company. She found a sense of family that had long eluded her.

“I started off in community theater, and I think something about that stuck with me,” she explains. “There’s this consistency, and some kind of family feeling. I’d always wanted to be part of a troupe, working with the same people. You know, people come in and people come out, but you always get back together for something. There’s a thread.

“Because otherwise, you just make all these little lives on the sets of a film, all across the globe. You get really close to people and then you have to leave. And you never really are able to stay in touch as much as you want to. …

“But this, to me, felt like a way to do that – to keep it within a family.”‘

Lohud.com says, “She divides her time between Brooklyn and a house in the country, hanging with her 3-year-old daughter, reading, being with friends.

“It is exactly what I needed,” she says of the hiatus. “I’d been going on fumes for a while. And I can just notice the change now – sometimes my head just starts to click on again, like I start to get curious about a character or a person. It’s good. But I’m not getting antsy. Not yet.”

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Walking With Matilda

Actress Michelle Williams and her adorable daughter Matilda Ledger went for walk on a chilly fall day all bundled up in Brooklyn, New York. Matilda Ledger has some of Heath Ledger’s mischievousness in her, as she is seen pulling her hat down over her face while playing with a friend outside a local coffee shop! Little Matilda is such a cutie!

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