Michelle Krusiec Biography
Michelle Jacqueline Krusiec is an American actress, writer and producer.
How old is Michelle Krusiec? – Age
She is 49 years old as of October 2023. The actress was born on October 2, 1974, in Taiwan.
Michelle Krusiec Height
The star stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches tall.
Michelle Krusiec Early Life
According to data, Michelle Krusiec was adopted at age five and raised in America by her father’s elder sister, who had married a Polish American. Her adoptive father renamed her Michelle Jacqueline, because he wanted her to have a French name. She studied English and theater at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, graduating with a B.A in 1996. She also studied Shakespeare and women’s literature at the University of Oxford on a scholarship.
Michelle Krusiec Career
Television and Voicework
Michelle was recruited to be one of six globe-trotting travel reporters for the Discovery Channel series Travelers in 1996. She traveled to over 50 different locations on the show. Krusiec played the 18 year old Molly O’Brien in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Time’s Orphan”. She co-starred in the NBC Saturday morning sitcom One World and played the role of Exquisite Woo on Popular. The actress appeared in The Mind of the Married Man as Sachiko, a massage parlor employee.
In 2020, she played Anna May Wong in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Hollywood. Michelle provided various voices for multiple episodes of Seth MacFarlane’s animated series American Dad!.
Film
Michelle was a Best Actress nominee in the Golden Horse Film Festival for her performance in a U.S. independent film Saving Face, written and directed by Alice Wu, in which she plays a Chinese American surgeon names Wilhelmina Pang juggling the demands of her girlfriend, Vivian Shing and pregnant mother.
Theater
She wrote, directed and performed a one-woman show entitled “Made in Taiwan” that premierd in Los Angeles and in New York at the New York International Fringe of Theater, among other venues. She has received funding from Visual Communication to develop the play into a feature film. In 2018, she starred in The Public Theatre’s production of Hansol Jung’s play Wild Goose Dreams, in the co-leading role of Yoo Nanhee.
Michelle Krusiec Movie
1995 – Nixon
2000 – For the Cause
2002 – Pumpkin
2003 – Daddy Day Care
2003 – Duplex
2004 – Saving Face
2005 – Cursed
2007 – Nanking
2007 – Far North
2008 – Henry Poole is Here
2011 – The River Murders
2012 – Knife Fight
2015 – The Invitation
2017 – 20 Weeks
2022 – They Live in the Grey
2023 – A Million Miles Away
2023 – Float
Michelle Krusiec TV Shows
1996 – Travelers
1999 – Popular
2001 – ER
2003 – Monk
2005 – Weeds
2005 – NCIS
2008 – My Own Worst Enemy
2011 – Community
2012 – Touch
2014 – Getting On
2016 – Hawaii Five-0
2018 – Supergirl
2020 – Hollywood