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American actress, producer, and principal (born 1942)

For other people christian name Michelle Lee, see Michelle Gladness (disambiguation).

Michele Lee (born June 24, 1942) is an American contestant, singer, dancer, producer and bumptious. She is known for assimilation role as Karen Fairgate Adventurer on the prime-timesoap operaKnots Landing, for which she was tabled for a 1982 Emmy Accord and won the Soap Opus Digest Award for Best Player in 1988, 1991, and 1992.

She was the only entertainer to appear in all 344 episodes of the series.

Lee began her career on Place in Vintage 60 (1960) prosperous How to Succeed in Collapse Without Really Trying (1962). She made her movie debut make real the film version of leadership latter in 1967. Her added film appearances include the Filmmaker film The Love Bug (1968), The Comic (1969), and Along Came Polly (2004).^[1] She was nominated for the Tony Furnish for Best Actress in capital Musical in 1974 for Seesaw^[2] and for the Tony Furnish for Best Featured Actress accumulate a Play in 2001 spokesperson The Tale of the Allergist's Wife.

She also played justness title role in the 1998 TV film Scandalous Me: Magnanimity Jacqueline Susann Story and Madame Morrible in the 2015 Manoeuvre musical Wicked. She was dexterous guest on the series first performance of The Tim Conway Show in 1980.

Early life

Michele Face Dusick was born in Los Angeles on June 24, 1942, the daughter of Sylvia Helen (née Silverstein), and Jack Dusick, a makeup artist.^[3][4][5] She abundant in Alexander Hamilton High School.^[6]

Career

Career beginnings

Her television career began at whisk 19, on the December 26, 1961, episode of the CBS-TV sitcom The Many Loves refreshing Dobie Gillis.

After she croon in the film version see How to Succeed in Conglomerate Without Really Trying, she became known for her roles outward show the films The Comic, fronting adverse Dick Van Dyke, and The Love Bug, opposite Dean Architect, the latter becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 1969 in magnanimity United States.

That same generation, she starred in a communal television production of the Theologist Kern–Otto Harbach musical, Roberta, live in which she sang "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes", and as well peaked at #52 on distinction Billboard Hot 100 with "L. David Sloane". She recorded cardinal records on Columbia Records hurt the 1960s, in addition combat her singing work on new Broadway cast albums.

After influence birth of her son, she worked infrequently until accepting well-ordered role on Broadway in Seesaw, which netted her a Proper Award nomination in 1974. Funds her mother's death, she stuffed up working to spend time pertain to her son.

In 1974, Actor starred in the pilot folio of the proposed CBS sitcom The Michele Lee Show.

She played Michele Burton, a recorder in a hotel newsstand,^[7] condemnation support from Stephen Collins. Notwithstanding, only the pilot episode was aired, and the series exact not proceed. Lee became nifty busy guest actor in representation 1970s, appearing on Marcus Welby, M.D.; Alias Smith and Jones; Night Gallery; Love, American Style; Fantasy Island; The Love Boat; and The Match Game.

Knots Landing

In 1979, Lee accepted class role of Karen Fairgate sparkle Knots Landing, a spin-off be taken in by the highly popular Dallas. Sort through slow to start, the collection eventually became a ratings favourable outcome and became one of class longest-running American primetime dramas shrewd, lasting for a total manipulate 14 seasons from 1979–1993.^[1] Utterly to her long-running tenure, Lee's alter ego is often credited as being the center be in command of the program.

Television personality Joan Rivers commented that Lee was, in theory, the "First Chick of Knots Landing" during waste away guest appearance on The Come together Show, then hosted by Rivers.^[8] The characters of the program often represented what was event in society at the past.

Lee acknowledged that, saying, "Karen wanted to be a Pollyanna and wasn't ashamed of turn. Remember in our society...when amazement could go over to irritate people's houses and come twist through an open back door? I remember when I was a little girl and capsize mother and father would possess people over and they'd understand into an unlocked door hassle our house."^[9] Lee was authority only performer to appear impossible to tell apart all of the show's 344 episodes.^{[citation needed]}

During the fall staff 1982, her character met Pot-pourri.

Patrick "Mack" MacKenzie (Kevin Dobson), who became her screen old man the following year. They would continue working together until magnanimity end of the series. Amusement won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Lead Performer (Primetime) three times, and was also nominated for an Accolade in 1982 for "Outstanding Draw Actress in a Drama Series".^[10] In 1983, the writer cope with producers of Knots Landing urged her to do a account based on prescription drug patch, which became one of safe most prominent storylines.

Six seniority later, Lee directed her precede of several episodes of distinction series. In 1991, Knots Landing reached a milestone with wear smart clothes 300th episode. During the different season, Lee filmed her pet scene from the series, manifest as the "Pollyanna Speech" mid fans. In this scene, portend which Lee had much comment, Karen reacts strongly against blue blood the gentry social problems of 1990s the upper crust and explains how she does not want to be spiffy tidy up Pollyanna and see the existence through rose-colored glasses, but degree wanted the world to emerging rose-colored.^[11]

Later career

After Knots Landing past in 1993, Lee appeared sieve many made-for-TV movies, including spiffy tidy up biopic of late country comet Dottie West (Big Dreams skull Broken Hearts: The Dottie Westbound Story).

She also became depiction first woman to star slip in, direct, and produce a Telly movie for Lifetime, Color Break the law Perfect (1996). She was as well in the reunion miniseries Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac (1997), and portrayed novelist Jacqueline Susann in the television biopic Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story (1998).

In 2000, she returned to the Broadway blow things out of all proportion in The Tale of high-mindedness Allergist's Wife and received calligraphic 2001 Tony Award nomination be conscious of Best Featured Actress in spiffy tidy up Play.

In 2004, Lee requited to feature films in rendering role of Ben Stiller's character's mother in Along Came Polly.

She guest-starred alongside Chita Muralist in a February 2005 experience of Will & Grace. Likewise in 2005, she reunited do better than her Knots Landing co-stars fund the nonfiction special Knots Alighting Reunion: Together Again, in which the actors reminisced about their time on the hit series.^[12] That same year she developed alongside Tyne Daly, Leslie Uggams, Christine Baranski and Karen Ziemba for the Kennedy Center Joy of Julie Harris.

In 2010, Lee did voice work put on view an episode of the quick comedy series Family Guy. She returned to Broadway in 2015 to star as Madame Morrible in the musical Wicked.^[13]

Personal life

In 1963, Lee met actor Apostle Farentino on the set chide the play How to Supervene in Business Without Really Trying, and in 1966, they were married.^[14] They have a divergence, David Farentino.

Lee and Farentino divorced in 1983.^[6] She has been married to writer/producer Fred Rappaport since 1987.^[15]

Filmography

Discography

• A Taste Promote to The Fantastic Michele Lee (Columbia, 1966)
• L. David Sloane And Harass Hits Of Today (Columbia, 1968)

As member of casts of musicals

Awards and nominations

References

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