MELINDA MICHAEL
Unions: ACTRA/UBCP/SAG Eligible
Canadian Citizenship | US Green Card | EU Passport
Height: 5’8” Weight: 145 lbs. Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue/Green
FILM & TELEVISION
Ice Hotel Holiday
Fit for a Prince
The 100
Murdoch Mysteries
Hemlock Grove
Reign
In Real Life*
Motives and Murders: Who Do You Trust?
Subject 1
Saints City
The Evans Case
Tracy's Answer
Hmm
When We Were Young
Unhappy Happy**
On Again Off Again
Nico
Selected***
Portrait of the Artist
Miss America
Backspace
I Dreamt I Belonged In A Mason Jar
David Bowie Is Around the World
THEATRE
Twelfth Night
The Mistress of the Inn
Chicago
The Wiz
Once On This Island
Music Outreach Tour
WEB
Out of Time
VOICE OVER
The Challenge
Commercials available upon request.
TRAINING
Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop (AMAW)
The Marshall Studio
Character Creation
Killian's Workshop
The Performer's Mastery
The Actors Foundry
Dynamics Acting School
Professional Actors Lab
Professional Actors Lab
Armstrong Acting Studio
New Drama Company
Improv Your Acting
Mike Shore’s Get C.A.S.T
Gloria Mann Casting
Leach and Levy Casting
Matthew Barry Teaches
Actors Workshop Canada
TV Audition Workshop
Comedy/Sitcom Television Workshop
Voice Over
The Actors Company
Great Big Voices
Livingston Studios
Loop Group West
Performance Capture
OM Los Angeles (Vault 501)
MoCap U
New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts
Film & Television Acting
Commercial Acting
Improvisation
Voice and Speech
Stage Combat
Shakespeare School
Shakespeare Training
Musical Theatre Training
SPECIAL SKILLS
Sports: Martial Arts: Boxing, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Kali, Escrima (Coaches: Jason Arnold, Sweden's national coach & Peter Lee Thomas), Hot Yoga, Cartwheels, Skipping, Cycling, Track and Field, Basketball, Volleyball
Dance: Hip-Hop, Ballet, Lyrical, Jazz, Pointe (16 years)
Voice: Soprano 2 (Amabile Choirs of London, International Competitor)
Instruments: Piano (Grade 8, Royal Conservatory of Music, Clarinet (Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra), Harmonium
Full Driver’s License: Class G
Languages: Studied Italian, Spanish, French
Accents: British RP, Irish
Citizenships: Canadian, U.S. Green Card, EU (Italy), Antiguan
Certifications: Reiki Energy Healer, Yoga Barre Instructor, 'On Camera Combatives' Toronto Affiliate
AWARDS
* Best Web Series – Los Angeles Film Awards 2017
** Best Micro-Budget Feature – Toronto Independent Film Festival 2013; Best Canadian Film – Daring Independent Film Festival 2013
*** Best Picture – Toronto Film School Festival of Films 2014
Large Supporting
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Guest Star / Principal
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Guest Star / Principal
Co-Star / Actor
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Supporting
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Featured
Featured
Featured
Olivia
Ortensia
Jail Bird/Dancer
Soloist
Ensemble
Various
Supporting
Lead
Foundations, Tony's On-Camera Intensive
Master Class
Character Analysis Intensive
Commercial Foundations
Performer's Mastery Workshop
Foundry Intensives, Level I and II
Audition Dynamics
On-Camera Scene Study
Exploring Emotional Depths Intensive
Intro to Acting On-Camera
Meisner Technique
Improv & Scene Study
Audition Intensive
Commercial & Scene Study Workshop
Audition Technique Workshop
Film Audition & Scene Study Workshop
Alex Newman (UDK Casting), CSA
G. Charles Wright, CSA
Commercial Voice Over
Teen + Adult Animation Workshop
Susan Hart's Animation Workshop
Looping Training
Motion Capture & Game Immersive Voice Recording Acting for Video Games Intensive
Rich Devaney
Nicholas Giangiulio
Suzanne Hevner
Ginger Eckert
David Debesse
Edward Daranyi
Barbara Young
Hallmark | Marita Grabiak
Hallmark, W Network | Marita Grabiak
CW Network | Mairzee Almas
CBC | Cal Coons
Netflix | Russell Fine
CW Network, CBS | Stuart Gillard
Bell Media | Bobby Del Rio
Cineflix (Motives 3) Inc. | Dave Tebby
Andrisk Inc, and Media at Large | Valerie Buhagiar
Yeung Blood Productions | King Yeung
Lionssphere Productions | Shaughn Russell
Yeung Blood Productions | King Yeung
Nemali Productions | Gopala Krishna
Centennial College | Toni Francis
Rob Shaw Productions | Robert Shaw
Movement Media Entertainment | Arsalan Shirazi, Biko Franklin
Flossy Productions | Kevin Alvez
Toronto Film School | Matt Read, Stas Simon
Cosmotion Pictures | Jack Wiktor
Ryerson University | Hakyung Chang
Humber College | Manton Harding
Mason Jar Productions | Lisa Miron Rambaldini
My Name Is Khan | Timothy Hwd Khan
Shakespeare School | Barbara Young
University of Toronto | Antonia Serrao-Soppelsa
University of Toronto | Shak Haq
Mother Teresa Secondary School | Ed MacNeil
Mother Teresa Secondary School | Ed MacNeil
The Young Americans
Zabou Productions | Rodney V. Smith
3fifths Human Productions | Alonzo Bartley
Anthony Meindl, Barbara Howlin
James Marshall
Penelope Chater
Jenny Schmidt
Linda Darlow & Henry J. Mah
Matthew Harrison
Ron Leach
David Rotenberg
David Rotenberg
Robert Kennedy
AJ Jaywar
Tony Babcock
Michael Gordin Shore
Gloria Mann, CDC
Brian Levy, CDC
Matthew Barry, CSA
James Murray
Sunday Muse
Susan Hart, Elley Ray
Wolfie Trausch
Victoria Atkin & Trine Jensen
Amber Goldfarb, Kim Hurdon, Ivan Sherry,
Colin Graham (Ubisoft)