27 Facts About Michelle Forbes

Michelle Renee Forbes Guajardo was born on January 8,1965 and is an American actress who has appeared on television and in independent films.

Michelle Forbes is a Saturn Award winner with three nominations.

Michelle Forbes is known for her recurring appearances on genre and drama shows, including Ensign Ro Laren in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard, and her regular role as medical examiner Julianna Cox on Homicide: Life on the Street during the 1990s.

Michelle Forbes played recurring roles throughout the 2000s in Battlestar Galactica, 24, In Treatment, Durham County, Prison Break and her series regular role as Maryann Forrester on True Blood.

Michelle Forbes was born in Austin, Texas, of Mexican American heritage.

Michelle Forbes began receiving formal acting training at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston.

In 1987, at age 22, Michelle Forbes landed the contract role of Sonni Carrera Lewis on the daytime soap opera Guiding Light.

Michelle Forbes was a cast member for three years and in 1990 earned a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for her performance.

Michelle Forbes then continued in theater and began appearing in small guest roles on television to raise her profile.

Michelle Forbes went on to make guest appearances on a few other TV shows before landing the recurring role of Ensign Ro Laren in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Michelle Forbes continued performing on television during this period, with guest spots on Seinfeld, The Outer Limits and Star Trek: The Next Generation, to which she returned to tie up the Ro Laren storyline in the series' penultimate episode.

In 1996, Michelle Forbes joined the cast of NBC's popular police drama Homicide: Life on the Street, playing chief medical examiner Julianna Cox.

Michelle Forbes remained with the show for two years then was let go as part of a major cast overhaul.

That same year, Michelle Forbes became a regular on the ABC series Wonderland but it was pulled from the air after only two episodes.

Michelle Forbes was next seen in a recurring role on the police drama The District.

Michelle Forbes was given roles in films such as 2001's Perfume and 2002's American Girl as well as the 2001 British television film Messiah and its sequel installments: Messiah 2: Vengeance is Mine in 2002 and Messiah III in 2003.

Michelle Forbes followed her role on 24 with a guest spot on Alias then went on to play Admiral Helena Cain in three episodes of the re-imagining of the classic sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica as well as appearing in the television film Battlestar Galactica: Razor.

Michelle Forbes followed this up with a recurring role as Agent Samantha Brinker on the drama Prison Break and guest starred on Boston Legal and Lost.

Michelle Forbes starred as the lead in the adaptation of the comic-book Global Frequency, the single produced episode of which leaked online the following year, eight months after the series failed to be picked up by Warner Bros.

Michelle Forbes returned to British television screens with guest roles in both Holby City and as a Mossad agent in Waking the Dead.

In 2008, Michelle Forbes starred in two HBO drama series; In Treatment, portraying the wife of the central character, and in True Blood as a Maenad named Maryann Forrester.

Michelle Forbes reprised her semi-regular roles in both series in their respective second seasons in 2009 as well as joining the cast of the Canadian psychological drama series Durham County for its second season as Dr Penelope Verity.

Michelle Forbes played the role of Mitch Larsen in the US television series The Killing, a 2011 remake of the Danish crime series Forbrydelsen.

Michelle Forbes appeared as Retro Girl in the TV series Powers.

Michelle Forbes subsequently played Valerie Edwards in the TV series Berlin Station that aired on Epix from 2016 to 2019.

Michelle Forbes's character was a no-nonsense administrator who serves as a Berlin Station Internal branch chief.

Michelle Forbes had been a vegetarian since her teenage years and became a vegan in 2011.