From the very beginning of her acting career, actress Michael Michele looked for the tough resolve within her characters, tapping into traits that often ran deeper than her much-admired physical appearance, Athletic and poised, Michele made her early mark in seminal genre films such as “New Jack City” (1991), before going on to tackle a variety of tougher biological and criminal adversaries, shifting from a variety of onscreen professions such as medicine, police work and law on acclaimed primetime series like “ER” (NBC, 1994- ) and “Homicide: Life on the Street” (NBC, 1993-99).Born in
Made appearances in TV commercials for such products as Revlon, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Old Spice
Appeared in music videos starring Freddie Jackson
Offered a role in Eddie Murphy's film Harlem Nights (1989); role was dissolved when she spurned his advances and she filed a sexual harassment suit against him; suit was ultimately settled out of court
1991
Played gangster moll in "New Jack City"
1992
TV debut as a regular in the CBS series "Dangerous Curves"
