Birth Name : Michelle Renee Forbes Guajardo
Date of Birth : 8 January 1965, Austin, Texas, USA
Height : 5' 10" (1.78 m)
Occupation : Actress
Michelle Renee Forbes Guajardo (born January 8, 1965), known professionally as Michelle Forbes, is an American actress who has built a career of work in television and independent film and has acted in productions in both the United States and in the United Kingdom. Forbes first gained attention from her dual role in daytime soap opera Guiding Light, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. She has also been nominated for multiple Screen Actors Guild- and Saturn Awards during her career.
She is best recalled as the cutthroat, foul-mouthed, unyielding producer Dawn Lockard who nevertheless tries to teach a young assistant the ropes in "Swimming With Sharks" (1994). Forbes had first gained notice with her dual role of troubled twins Sonni and Solida on the CBS daytime drama "Guiding Light" (1987-89), earing a Daytime Emmy nomination for her performance. Relocating to L.A., she went on to appear on primetime TV in episodes of "Shannon" and "The Father Dowling Mysteries". Her first big screen exposure was alongside David Duchovny as the pawns of serial killers Juliette Lewis and Brad Pitt in the thriller "Kalifornia" (1993).
Feature film roles came steadily--including a stint in John Carpenter's sequel "Escape From L.A." (1996)--but television provided Forbes with the most frequent forum for her talents, including a regular role on the short-lived primetime soap "Wonderland" (2000), and recurring stints on the CBS crime drama "The District" (2000), Lifetime's medical drama "Strong Medicine" (2002) and the 2002 season of Fox's hugely popular thriller "24" as presidential aide Lynne Kresge.
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