The former Dawson's Creek star has reportedly started dating film director Spike Jonze, the ex-husband of Lost In Translation director, Sofia Coppola, the Daily Mail reported. Williams was seen kissing Jonze outside his Lower East Side Manhattan apartment on July 2nd, according to US magazine, Star.

"Michelle kissed Spike with a closed mouth on the corner of his lips," an onlooker told the magazine. "There was definitely a bit of caressing going on. She was clutching his arm. The body language was very romantic."

The Australian, 9 Apr 2008 Williams first met Jonze in 2006 when she auditioned for his film adaptation of the Maurice Sendak children's book Where The Wild Things Are. She was offered a part, but later withdrew from the film. Williams and Jonze finally worked together on Synecdoche, New York in the 2007 northern summer and struck up a friendship.

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