Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Michelle Clunie, who has won critical and popular audiences for her portrayal of the beautiful, intelligent, human Melanie Marcus of Showtime's groundbreaking series Queer as Folk, may have learned few specifics about playing a lesbian. But it was certainly there that she developed the talent, integrity and ...
Comes from a family of writers - her brother's a writer and her mother's cousin, Jim Cash, wrote many of the big blockbuster hits from the 1980s, including Top Gun.
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Was mentored by the late Beverly Hills Playhouse founder Milton Katselas whom she credits for encouraging her to take risks and tackle complex characters.
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 45, a son Dashiell Julius William Clunie-Singer on January 5, 2015. Child's father is her best friend, Bryan Singer.
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Has been friends with Bryan Singer since 1989 and they were in a short romantic relationship. They have a son together.
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She was cast separately from her Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) co-star Michael B. Silver. It turns out they already knew each other by the time they got to the set; they had dated for years and had just broken up a year before shooting, and had no idea the other was cast in the opposite role.
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