Michelle Williams was nominated for an Oscar in 2012 for her performance in 'My Week with Marilyn'.
Marilyn Monroe, whose real name was Norma Jeane Baker or Norma Jeane Mortenson, is the great icon of Hollywood cinema of all time, whose image and personal history became legendary and have influenced popular culture for decades.
There have been many film or television projects in which they have wanted to tell her life, understand her mystery, recreate her world or, at least, make reference to her legacy. The most recent and about to be released is the film Blonde, in which Ana de Armas will play the character of the star. However, many other actresses have faced this challenge from different perspectives.
In 2012, Michelle Williams was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of the quintessential blonde in My Week with Marilyn, in which she starred opposite Eddie Redmayne and Kenneth Branagh.
The film tells how the relationship between the actress and Sir Lawrence Olivier (Branagh) developed from the perspective of her assistant (Redmayne), when Marilyn filmed with him The Prince and the Showgirl.
In 1996, Oscar winner Mira Sorvino portrayed Marilyn Monroe in the television movie Norma Jean & Marilyn, which traced the actress's beginnings and her rise to mega stardom.
In this story, the role of Norma Jean, before being Marilyn, was played by actress Ashley Judd.
In 1994, Quentin Tarantino made one of the most remembered sequences of the movie Pulp Fiction inside a restaurant set in the golden age of Hollywood and attended by its big stars.
There we could see the actress Susan Griffiths, who bears a great physical resemblance to Marilyn Monroe, and who has made a career impersonating the legendary actress in different titles such as the series The Defenders, Timecop, Dark Skies or Quantum Leap, the video of Elton John from the theme Candle in the wind and the TV movie My Life with Marilyn.
Special mention deserves the British actress and impersonator Suzie Kennedy, who also has a great resemblance to Marilyn and who models and appears in different events and tributes characterized as the star of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
In a peculiar 2007 film, starring Diego Luna, who plays a Michael Jackson impersonator who wanders the streets of Paris, it was the turn of the English actress Samantha Morton to do the same with the character of Marilyn Monroe.
The film is called Mister Lonely and was directed by Harmony Korine, who directed Spring Breakers with James Franco and Selena Gomez and wrote the script for the cult film Kids, based on a story by Larry Clark, director of this film.
In an episode of the series Gossip Girl, the character of Serena van der Woodsen, played by Blake Lively, has a dream in which she transforms into Marilyn Monroe by singing Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
On September 23, 2022, the film Blonde, starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe, will arrive on Netflix. The film directed by Andrew Dominik (Kill Them Softly, The Assassination of Jesse James.) has a script based on the novel of the same name by author Joyce Carol Oates.
