1. Michelle Krusiec was adopted at age five and raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia by her father's elder sister, who had married a Polish American, longtime US Navy officer Carl Andrew Krusiec.
13 Facts About Michelle Krusiec
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Michelle Krusiec studied Shakespeare and women's literature at the University of Oxford on a scholarship.
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Michelle Krusiec was recruited to be one of six globe-trotting travel reporters for the Discovery Channel series Travelers in 1996.
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Michelle Krusiec traveled to over 50 different locations on the show.
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Michelle Krusiec played the 18-year-old Molly O'Brien in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Time's Orphan".
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Michelle Krusiec co-starred in the NBC Saturday morning sitcom One World and played the role of Exquisite Woo on Popular.
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Michelle Krusiec appeared in The Mind of the Married Man as Sachiko, a massage parlor employee.
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In 2020, Michelle Krusiec played Anna May Wong in Ryan Murphy's Netflix series, Hollywood.
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Michelle Krusiec was a Best Actress nominee in the Golden Horse Film Festival for her performance in a US independent film Saving Face, written and directed by Alice Wu, in which she plays a Chinese American surgeon named Wilhelmina Pang juggling the demands of her girlfriend, Vivian Shing and pregnant mother.
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Michelle Krusiec 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, among other venues.
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Michelle Krusiec has received funding from Visual Communications to develop the play into a feature film.
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Michelle Krusiec toured with the cast of David Henry Hwang's play, Chinglish, in the role of Xi Yian.
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In 2018, Michelle Krusiec starred in The Public Theatre's production of Hansol Jung's play Wild Goose Dreams, in the co-leading role of Yoo Nanhee.