Michelle Forbes
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| Michelle Forbes | |
| Birthplace | Austin, Texas |
| Date of birth | January 8, 1967 |
| Role on 24 | Lynne Kresge |
Michelle Forbes played Lynne Kresge during Season 2 of 24.
[edit] Biography
Forbes was born in Austin, Texas. Although she initially wanted to do ballet, Forbes moved to New York at age 16 to audition for a film role, and ended up with the William Morris Agency, and a role on the daytime soap opera "Guiding Light". For her dual role as Sonni/Solita, she earned a Daytime Emmy nomination. After this role, she dedicated herself to theater and also began appearing in small guest roles on television to raise her profile. She appeared in shows like "Father Dowling Mysteries" (with Tony Todd) and "Shannon's Deal" (with Richard Roat).
In 1991, she had a small role in an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as the daughter of a character played by David Ogden Stiers. The producers were evidently impressed, as she was offered a recurring role in the fifth season as Ensign Ro Laren. With the show being such a hit, the producers decided to make another Trek series: "Deep Space Nine", with Ensign Ro as the lead character. However, Forbes wasn't interested in a long-running television role, so a new character, Kira Nerys (played by Nana Visitor), was created for the show. After this, Forbes and the Trek producers did not get on well, so she moved on. To this day, Forbes does not usually discuss her decisions regarding Star Trek in interviews. Forbes was brought back for one final episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
Ensign Ro remains a hugely popular character amongst Trek fandom, and Dennis Haysbert, with whom she later starred in 24 and who is a Trekkie, was apparently thrilled and awestruck to be working alongside Forbes. Perhaps because of her huge fan base, the producers asked Forbes back again when launching "Star Trek: Voyager" but she again declined.
In 1993, she starred with David Duchovny, Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis in the cult film Kalifornia. He also appeared in Swimming with Sharks (with Kevin Spacey), Black Day Blue Night (with Tim Guinee and Gil Bellows), and John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. (with Leland Orser).
In 1996, Forbes landed her first major television role in "Homicide: Life on the Street" playing Dr. Julianna Cox from 1996 to 1998. During the show, she worked with Zeljko Ivanek. In 1998, Forbes was written out of the show as part of a massive cast change which many fans see as responsible for the show's demise just one season later. She returned in the 2000 TV movie, which also starred Ivanek. That same year, she also appeared with John Hawkes in the show "Brimstone".
In 2000, Forbes had recurring roles on the TV series "The District" (with Richard Burgi and Tanya Wright) and "Wonderland" (with Billy Burke and Leland Orser). The latter was critically hailed, but it only aired for a few weeks before being canceled. Forbes herself described it as a "mess that put [her] off series television". In 2002, she also appeared in the series "Fastlane" (with Channon Roe).
In 2001, Forbes learned British Sign Language for the role of the deaf mute wife of Detective Red Metcalfe in the BBC television serial Messiah, and she returned for the sequels in 2003 and 2004. She also appeared in the films Perfume (with Harris Yulin), Johnson County War (with Silas Weir Mitchell), American Girl (with Chris Mulkey), and more recently, Diplomacy (with Omid Abtahi and Navid Negahban).
After her appearance in 24, Forbes appeared on shows like "Alias", "The Inside", and "Battlestar Galactica". Recently, she's had recurring roles on "Prison Break" (with John Billingsley and Silas Weir Mitchell), "In Treatment", "Durham County", and "True Blood" (again with Ivanek and Billingsley). Like many other 24 actors, she also appeared on an episode of "Lost" (with Henry Ian Cusick, Daniel Dae Kim, and Anthony Azizi).
Although a long time resident of New York City, Forbes now lives in Los Angeles.
[edit] 24-related appearances
- Forbes provided DVD audio commentary for the episode Day 2 11:00am-12:00pm (with Carlos Bernard and Sarah Wynter).
