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Elle
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
Michelle Williams Confirms She and Thomas Kail Welcomed Their Third Baby Together
Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. THE RUNDOWN Michelle Williams and her husband, director Thomas Kail, have quietly built their life together offscreen after meeting on the set of Fosse/Verdon. They married in 2020 and now have three children together. In early April 2025, People revealed they had welcomed their youngest child six weeks before via surrogate. Here's everything to know about Kail and his love story with Williams. Kail is known for directing Broadway's Hamilton. He won the 2016 Tony award for Best Direction of a Musical and later adapted the show into a filmed version for Disney+. He used a combination of live performance footage and carefully planned onstage camerawork. 'I always wanted to capture what it felt like to be in the theater,' Kail said in a 2020 interview with Screen Rant. He added his goal was to give home viewers 'the best seat in the house.' Before Hamilton, Kail had already made a name for himself directing In the Heights, which earned him a Tony nomination in 2008. On television, he's helmed Grease: Live!, which won two Emmys, and more recently We Were the Lucky Ones, a Hulu limited series about a Jewish family separated during the Holocaust. It premiered in spring 2024. Kail is also set to direct Disney's upcoming live-action adaptation of Moana, which will star Dwayne Johnson as Maui. The project is slated for a 2026 release. Kail and Williams first connected on the 2019 FX limited series Fosse/Verdon. Williams starred as Gwen Verdon, while Kail directed five episodes and served as an executive producer. When the couple's relationship began has been kept private. According to People, Kail and Williams were previously married and began dating following their divorces in 2019. In December of that year, People reported that Williams and Kail were engaged and expecting their first child together. In March 2020, they were photographed wearing wedding bands. That June, they welcomed their son, Hart. Since then, they've continued to expand their family. They had another child in 2022 and a third via surrogate in 2025. 'It's a busy house, but it's a happy one,' Williams revealed to Entertainment Tonight in November 2022, following the birth of her third child and second child with Kail. (She had 19-year-old daughter Matilda with her late partner, Heath Ledger.) On April 3, 2025, People reported the couple's third baby was six weeks old. Although Williams and Kail occasionally appear together on red carpets, they've largely stayed out of the spotlight. In a March 2025 New York Magazine cover story, Williams made a rare personal remark about how her FX series Dying for Sex impacted her view on intimacy. She explained that she sees sex as 'an answer to death because it's the ultimate feeling before we're left without any.' She then quipped, 'I got to go home and see my husband!' Kail graduated from Wesleyan University in 1999 with a degree in history. In a 2023 career conversation hosted by his alma mater, he reflected on his experiences, telling students, 'I learned a lot from watching and absorbing…I was constantly asking people about their own stories, and there's usually something along the way that you feel like you can pick up and put in your pocket and take with you.' He credited his time at Wesleyan—especially in student theater—with giving him the space to practice and figure out his path. 'I didn't go to Wesleyan thinking that [acting] was going to be anything that had to do with my life,' he said, 'and I feel like the most Wesleyan thing ever is to major in history and then work in theater.' Williams's performance in Fosse/Verdon won her the 2020 SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series. In her acceptance speech, Williams gave her partner a shout-out, saying, 'Tommy, like everything else in our life, I share this [award] with you.' In August 2025, Williams confirmed she and Kail had welcomed their third baby via surrogate. 'I've got to give a big shout-out to Christine,' she said during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on August 18. 'Because this last baby did not come through my body, but the miracle of our little girl is thanks to Christine.' She added that life with three kids under 5 has been full but rewarding: 'It's good. It's just really busy and I'm trying to figure out the work-life balance. I hear that a lot of people are talking about self care, and I'm just wondering, 'When?' Because I'm the working mom, and I already have the guilt, and I don't want to take more time away from them. But I understand that I need to fill up the tank.' 'I've been spending a lot of time at the social security offices,' she joked. 'You get to wait for an hour in complete silence. I have it all figured out.'
Time of India
6 days ago
- Time of India
Bengaluru gas cylinder blast: When sirens replaced celebrations in neighbourhood
Bengaluru: They were asleep when it happened. Nine-year-old Kail was enjoying a day off from school, and her mother, Kasturamma, who worked as a domestic help in the crowded lanes of Wilson Garden, had allowed herself a little rest too. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now "It being a holiday, she was to wake up later and go to school for the flag-hoisting programme," recalled Murugan, Kail's paternal uncle, as he waited outside the burns ward of Victoria Hospital on Friday morning. The quiet of the public holiday was broken by sirens. Ambulances sped, ferrying the injured from the suspected cylinder blast to hospitals across the city — Nimhans, Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedics, and the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health (IGICH). Kail was first taken to IGICH, before being rerouted to Victoria Hospital, where her mother, known fondly as Kasturi, was being treated. When she arrived, she had lost all her hair, a layer of skin, and was put on oxygen. Her grandmother and Murugan stayed close, while doctors worked quickly. "Kasturi sustained 30% burns and Kail, 45%," said Dr Yogishwarappa CN, professor and head of burns, Victoria Hospital. "The high percentage of burns makes it complicated. There are also inhalation burns." Kail's father, Aiyappan, a construction worker, was in Kallakurichi, Tamil Nadu, at the time. Murugan said he was unsure whose house the fire started in, but the blast had caught the family unawares. By the time Kail should have been dressing for school, she and her mother were instead fighting for their lives. Police records, however, show that the blast occurred in Kasturi's house. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Across the city, at Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedics, 60-year-old Sarasamma was being prepared for surgery. She had arrived with low blood pressure, in shock, and with a crushed right arm. "We'll be amputating her arm either above or below the elbow," said Dr Rajendra KS, chief medical officer. He added that she was the only high-risk patient of the three — Rajesh and Pramila Raj being the other two — brought in there. Rajesh has a suspected ear damage, while Pramila is believed to have a head injury. Doctors have run tests on both of them and advised follow-up visits. For the Raj family, who lived within 80 metres of Kasturi's house, it was a close call. Pramila's children, Vimal and Durga, and her husband had left for Bommanahalli, for Durga's Independence Day celebration. "It was a regular celebration, and Durga wanted to go see her friends too, and we accompanied her," said Vimal, who was at the hospital to take his mother back. Pramila, a coconut vendor, didn't accompany her husband and children as she wanted to spend her holiday resting a bit longer. "There was a loud noise. I thought it was children playing with crackers. Suddenly, part of the sheet roof over my head caved in and fell on me," Pramila recalled. She lost consciousness, but neighbours rushed her to the arriving ambulances. A bump on her head was the only injury she carried. Vimal shook his head at the thought. "I don't know if it was fate or God's grace, but we were saved," he said.
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Your Turn: The real waste in Pennsylvania government
In a remarkable moment at the Feb. 27 House budget hearing for Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection, state Rep. Josh Kail, R-15, Brighton Township, declared it 'outrageous' that citizens, including his constituents, have the right to petition DEP for a change in environmental rules. Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley explained that DEP's 'rulemaking' process allows everyday people to ask for a new rule or repeal an existing one. And if a citizen's petition is backed by scientific data, it can merit review by the DEP's rulemaking body, the Environmental Quality Board. Shirley also explained that EQB's review includes legislative touch points and consent, as well as legislators among its members. Evidently. too fixated on degrading the democratic process to listen, Kail then delivered a textbook non sequitur, stating that since DEP rulemaking includes 'absolutely no legislative input,' the agency's time spent in rulemaking is 'wasted.' His claim is both erroneous and authoritarian. Kail's performance red-flags whether he understands or even cares what a legislator's job requires under our constitution. How can any legislator call listening to everyday citizens a waste of time when the heart of being a legislator is to hear and represent constituents' needs? More so, why would any legislator be outraged (or even pretend to be, as Kail's thespian muscle-flexing suggested) at a lawful, 40-year-old process designed to ensure public input – a process our Legislature wrote and passed and understood to be protected by the First Amendment? Then comes the biggest question of all: Do we – as a country of, by, and for the People – continue to elect legislators who want to take power from us? Or do we refuse to elect legislators who call our voices a 'waste?' That Kail tried to shame the DEP for working with the People to create regulations is in itself shameful. Under the pretense that time spent addressing the People's petitions is fiscal squandering, Kail named three such petitions to exemplify his point: One for joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), one for increasing security bonds for oil and gas wells, and one for establishing mandatory set-backs for oil and gas wells. Given that all three petitions would bring hundreds of millions in income and savings to Pennsylvania, characterizing time spent on them as fiscally irresponsible is a farce. If Kail actually listened to the People, his feigned fiscal concerns would be relieved. Although the RGGI matter started from a rulemaking petition, when Gov. Tom Wolf signed an executive order requiring DEP to join RGGI, the petition was set aside. But this cap-and-trade program of CO2 would have brought in an estimated $443 million in income to be spent only on clean air initiatives such as monitoring and constraining polluting facilities. If Kail could imagine how much his constituents, who are plagued by carcinogenic emissions from thousands of oil wells, need DEP to step up and protect them, he might be able to help legislate the funding DEP needs to do so. Or is that funding a waste? The well-bonding petition asked oil and gas companies to post higher bonds before drilling a well. The current bond amount is $2,500, which creates zero incentive for companies to plug wells at a cost of about tens of thousands of dollars per well. It's a business no-brainer to default on the bond, rather than spend twenty times more to plug a well. So that defaulting leaves Pennsylvanians with the public health and environmental wreckage, while taxing them for the massive cost of plugging up to hundreds of thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells. While Pennsylvania is currently fighting for $300 million in federal funding to plug wells, the People's well bonding petition simply proposed raising bonds to about $38,000. Is such a proposal really a waste? Finally, the setbacks petition seeks a common-sense mandate that oil and gas wells not be built too close to waterways and buildings. Currently, health-harming wells can be and are built only 500 feet from buildings such as schools and hospitals. Instead, this People's petition asked DEP to base these distances on scientific research by requiring Set-backs of 5,280 ft from any building 'serving the vulnerable' (schools, hospitals). Set-backs of 3,281 ft from any building or drinking water well. Setbacks of 750 ft from any waterway. Is Kail l saying that protecting our children, our elderly, our infirm, is a waste? Is protecting our drinking water a waste? Any citizen who values their voice should scorn Kail's disingenuous performance on Feb. 27 and his audacious inclination to snatch away our power to develop and shape regulations. The right to hold Kail accountable rests especially with the People of his 15th District, which includes Shell's massive pollution-spewing plastics plant, along with half of Washington County – the most fracked county in Pennsylvania. The real waste in our state government is not time spent on the DEP rulemaking process. It's time spent by lobbied legislators in selling out the government of, by, and for the People to the petrochemical industry. Terrie Baumgardner is a resident of Aliquippa and Clean Air Council's Outreach Coordinator for Beaver County. This article originally appeared on Beaver County Times: Opinion: The real waste in Pennsylvania government
Express Tribune
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Michelle Williams expands her family with baby No. 4
Actress Michelle Williams has welcomed her fourth child, her third with husband Thomas Kail, via surrogate, PEOPLE reports. The couple, who have kept their personal life private, were spotted around their New York neighborhood with their newborn, who arrived six weeks ago. A source close to the couple shared, "They couldn't be happier to expand their family, and Matilda has been doting on her younger siblings." Williams, 44, is already a mother to Matilda Ledger, 18, whom she shared with the late Heath Ledger, as well as two young children with Kail: Hart, 4, and another child born in 2022. Williams, best known for her work in The Fabelmans and Brokeback Mountain, has been balancing motherhood with her acting career. She recently took a hiatus after The Fabelmans and is now making a return with the upcoming Hulu limited series Dying for Sex, which premieres on April 4, 2025. In a 2023 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Williams spoke about juggling career and motherhood, saying, 'My heart obviously belongs to my children; they tug at it the most. But I really want to be able to have both.' Williams and Kail, a Tony-winning director known for Hamilton, have been married since 2020. While the couple has yet to make an official statement, their growing family is clearly thriving.
