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Michelle Krusiec is an award winning Taiwanese American director, writer and actor whose lengthy career has proven to be a versatile and influential presence in the industry. Michelle writes and directs in genre, weaving in personal narrative and comedy. She's an alumnae of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Her work has screened at top genre, Canadian and US Academy Qualifying festivals: Fantasia, Beyondfest, Brussels Fantastic, Calgary, Palm Springs, Hawaii FF, LAAPFF, among many others.

Michelle's short film NIAN was commissioned for Hulu's Bite Size Halloween. Nian's awards include Best Midnight Short at Palm Springs, Mark Braunstein Maverick Nomination at Woodstock, Young Audience Award at Court Metranges, Honorable Mention at Female Eye. Michelle is attached to write and direct NIAN as a feature for Worthen/Brooks formerly 20th Digital Studio.

Krusiec's work as an actress and advocate for API causes has been honored by The White House, State of California and Museum of Chinese America.

BornOctober 2

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Michelle Krusiec Biography

Date of Birth:
Oct 2, 1974Birth Place:
Fallon, Nevada, USA

Biography

A versatile Chinese-American actor well-versed in both comedic and dramatic performance, Michelle Krusiec earned widespread praise for her role in the Alice Wu-directed indie comedy-drama "Saving Face." Raised by adoptive parents in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Krusiec immersed herself in acting from an early age, enrolling in a drama program at a prestigious arts-oriented magnet school. After honing her talents at Virginia Tech and Oxford University, Krusiec earned her first commercial TV job as the host of the Discovery Channel's "Travelers." She went on to play comic characters on the Saturday morning sitcom "One World" (as part of a multi-ethnic household) and the spoofy teen drama "Popular" (as exchange student Exquisite Woo), and had a recurring role on the Emmy-nominated sitcom "Titus." But it was her dramatic turn as a gay Chinese-American surgeon caught between two cultures in 2004's "Saving Face" that brought her to the attention of film critics and earned her a Best
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Michelle Krusiec

American actress

Michelle Jacqueline Krusiec[1] (born Ya-Huei Yang; Chinese: 楊雅慧; pinyin: Yáng Yǎhuì; October 2, 1974[2]) is an American actress, writer and producer.

Early life and education

Krusiec was born in Taiwan.[3] She was adopted at age five and raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia by her father's elder sister, who had married a Polish American,[4] longtime U.S. Navy officer Carl Andrew Krusiec.[1][5][6] Her adoptive father renamed her Michelle Jacqueline because he wanted her to have a French name.[1]

Krusiec studied theater at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), graduating with a B.A.. She also studied Shakespeare and women's literature at the University of Oxford on a scholarship.[7]

Career

Television and voicework

Krusiec was recruited to be one of six globe-trotting travel reporters for the Discovery Channel series Travelers in 1996.[8] She traveled to over 50 different l

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