Michelle Krusiec
Michelle Krusiec | |
|---|---|
| Born | Michelle J. Krusiec October 2, 1974 |
| Other names | 楊雅慧 |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Website | http://www.michellekrusiec.com |
Michelle J. Krusiec (Chinese: 楊雅慧; pinyin: Yáng Yǎhuì) born October 2, 1974 in Fallon, Nevada,[1] is an American actress of Taiwanese ancestry.
Krusiec was recruited to be one of six globe-trotting travel reporters for the Discovery Channel new series called Travelers.[2] Along with Barbara Alvarez, Robin Kipp, Pearce Bunting, Patrick Michael, Foster Soloman, and later Lisa Clark, she traveled to over 50 different locations on the show.[3]
Krusiec played the eighteen year-old Molly O'Brien in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Time's Orphan". Krusiec was a Best Actress nominee in the Golden Horse Film Festival for her performance in a U.S. independent film Saving Face (2005), in which she plays a Chinese American lesbian juggling the demands of her girlfriend and pregnant mother. She also appeared in The Mind of the Married Man as Sachiko, the massage parlor girl who gives "happy endings." She co-starred in the NBC Saturday morning sitcom One World and also played the role of Exquisite Woo on Popular. She played Mei-Ling Hwa Darling, one of the Darling family's daughters-in-law in ABC's highly-publicized dramedy, Dirty Sexy Money. She also has a recurring role as "Nadine Park" on Season 4 of Fox's Fringe, and has also appeared on TV shows such as NBC's Community (as "Wu Mei", a love interest of Chevy Chase's character, Pierce Hawthorne), General Hospital as Attorney Grace Yang, The Secret Life of the American Teenager as Emily, Nip/Tuck, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, American Dad, NCIS, Grey's Anatomy, Weeds, Without A Trace, Cold Case, Monk, ER, and Titus
Krusiec has also Wrote, Directed and Performed a One-Woman Show entitled "Made in Taiwan" that premiered in Los Angeles and in New York at the New York International Fringe Festival of Theater to rave reviews from NYTheater.com, Meniscus, David Henry Hwang, LA Weekly, and other periodicals.[4][5]
Life and career
Krusiec was born in Fallon, Nevada. She was raised by adoptive parents — her Taiwanese aunt and Polish-American uncle, hence her Polish surname (Krusiec means "ore" in Old Polish) in Virginia. Her biological father's surname is Yang .
Filmography
- TV series
- Sexual Considerations (1991)
- Travelers (1996)
- One World (1998)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Time's Orphan Season 6, Episode 24 (1998)
- Popular (1999) (TV series)
- Titus Season 2 (2001)
- ER (2002)
- Monk (2003)
- Without a Trace Season 1 & Season 3 (2003)
- Cold Case Season 2 (2004)
- Grey's Anatomy Bring the Pain (2005)
- NCIS Under Covers (2005)
- Weeds Free Goat (2005)
- Standoff Shanghai'd (2006)
- Dirty Sexy Money Season 1 (2007)
- My Own Worst Enemy Season 1 (2008)
- CSI: NY Season 6 (2009)
- CSI: Miami Season 8 (2010)
- Community Season 2 (2011)
- Fringe Season 4 (2011)
- Movies
- Nixon (1995)
- For the Cause (2000)
- The Mind of the Married Man (2001)
- Tomato and Eggs (2002)
- Pumpkin (2002)
- Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
- Tenchu san (2003)
- Daddy Day Care (2003)
- Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
- Duplex (2003)
- Best Actress (2004)
- Saving Face (2004)
- Cursed (2005)
- Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
- Far North (2007)
- Nanking (2007)
- What Happens in Vegas (2008)
- Henry Poole is Here (2008)
- Zoom Hunting (2010)
- The River Murders (2011)
- Nice Girls Crew (2012)
- Video games
- Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven (2003) as Ayame
References
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0472891/
- ^ Genessee Kim, Michelle Krusiec: The Big Screen's Chameleon Sweetheart, http://goldsea.com/Personalities/Krusiecm/krusiecm1.html
- ^ Id.
- ^ Made in Taiwan, Official Website, http://www.madeintaiwanshow.com/
- ^ Nancy Kim, Made In Taiwan Theater Review, http://www.nytheatre.com/showpage.aspx?s=10626