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

Baby, It's Cold Inside
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 (Animation)
EduFit     

Commercials available upon request.

TRAINING

The Performer's Mindset

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
Large Supporting
Guest Star / Principal

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Guest Star / Principal

Co-Star / Actor

Lead

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Supporting

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Featured

Featured

Featured

Olivia

Ortensia

Jail Bird/Dancer

Soloist

Ensemble

Various

Supporting

Lead

E-Learning Narrator

Intro Mindset Intensive
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

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Alex Newman (UDK Casting), CSA

G. Charles Wright, CSA

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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

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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
Edufic Digital | Dennis Ranjith, Reema Chitalia 

Joe Towne, David Reale

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

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James Murray
Sunday Muse
Susan Hart, Elley Ray
Wolfie Trausch

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Victoria Atkin & Trine Jensen
Amber Goldfarb, Kim Hurdon, Ivan Sherry,   
    Colin Graham (Ubisoft)