vrijdag 4 november 2016



American actress Michelle Lee is also stuntwoman and martial artist who grew up in Silicon Valley (homebase of Apple, IBM, Google, Facebook) in Los Angeles. She started an relation with Canadian Director Jason Reitman in 2004. The couple marries on 05-09-2004 and their marriage lasts until the day of today. She studied at the UCLA (University of California) in Los Angeles. Ivana Chubbuck gave her acting lessons at the Advanced Acting Technique Class and Stella Adler gave her technique lessons at the Piero Dusa Acting Conservatory.

She was very sportive at young age and practiced cheerleading, pole dancing, running, yoga, aerobics, swimming, cycling, snow skiing and snowboarding. She is trained in kung fu, karate, taekwondo, krav maga, eskrima, wushu and (kick)boxing. She is also trained in the use of martial arts weapons as sword, knife, staff, nunchaku, katana and Chinese swords. She competes at tournaments and was silver medalist at the Berkeley Collegiate Tournament.

There are covershoots and articles about her in magazines as Inside KungFu, Impact, Fangoria and LA Times and many more.She appeared as host at TV programs as Your LA Host NBC, Stars Stunts Action and High Octane Host Time Warner On Demand. She did stunts for movie/tv programs as Lost Sun, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Heroes ND, MTV VMA Pink’s Pyro Girls, Knight Rider, Avatar: Last Airbender and many more.

Action Movie Career

She made her action movie debut as Queen Demon in this story about Kitty Contreras who plays the lead role as young heroine, who battles against evil forces commissioned by a Chinese mobster in ''Chicks with Sticks, Part 3'' (2004).

She plays a ninja girl next to Tracy O'Connor who plays the lead role as Gwen Hunter in the short action movie ''Girl with Gun'' (2006). Mitzi Oppenheimer (played by Michelle Gunn) is the best girlfriend of Gwen who thinks that she is a hard working woman. Gwen lives an double life as assassin, who helps innocent people who can't save themselves at night.

She plays Liu Xi in this story set in the early 20th century in Chinay in the short action movie "Broken Fists" (2006). An young peasant girl must reconcile the dark secrets of her family's history.

She plays an geisha next to Stana Katic who plays the lead role as female killer Raina Mavias in "Stiletto" (2008). Raina is an mysterious young Russian woman who's also a methodical female assassin. She follows members of a ruthless criminal organization with the intention to kill them one by one. One of her targets is the wealthy retired crime boss Virgil (played by Tom Berenger) who has a past with her. Her betrayal breaks his heart and he hires crooked homicide detective Beck (played by Paul Sloan) in order to hunt on her before the police finds her.

She plays high school girl Madison who is an friend of Kwan (played by Alfred Hsing) and Sheen (played by Richard Chiu) in the short action movie "The Living Sword" (2008). The friends are reunited again through the phenomenon of dark fables and folklore. One friend turns against them when he's forced to become dependent of a sword, which is enchanted with the soul of a legendary sword-maker.

She plays the Cleaner alongside Thom Michael Mulligan and Marco Martinez in the short action movie "Cleaner" (2008). The young Cleaner follows a lethal assassin on her last assignment, before she leaves this dark and dangerous life. She must fight against vicious gangsters and killers when the hit attempt awry went.

She plays Chang and Eric Roberts plays the lead role as seasoned Naval Officer Commander Krieg who does a last voyage before he's transferred to a desk job in "Depth Charge" (2008). He's aboard the nuclear submarine USS Montana when he takes control over the submarine with its nuclear weapons and experimental stealth technology. He holds Washington D.C. and the world hostage with the submarine, because he upset is that they overlooked his promotion to Captain.

She plays an short role as Shelly in the action movie ''Blood and Bone'' (2009). Ex-con Isaiah Bone (played by Michael Jai White) competes at the underground fighting world, in his quest to fulfill a promise of a dead friend.

She plays Ming in this story about mixed martial arts superstar Troy Jennings (played by Stephan Bonnar) whose girlfriend is kidnapped by ex-fighter Lucien Gallows (played by Daniel Bernhardt) in ''Supreme Champion'' (2010). He competes at a fight tournament in order to rescue his girlfriend. He must fight against eight fighters before he can fight against last opponent Lucien in a fight to death.

She plays the lead role as female assassin Ekaterina Demidrova next to Jivko Juranov who plays martial arts expert Niki in ''Cold Fusion'' (2011). An UFO is spotted in 1979 above Ukrainian territory in the Soviet Union and an squadron of MIG23 fighters are dispatched to intercept it. The pilots shoot the UFO on the ground and the wreckage is taken to an secret research facility somewhere in the Soviet Union. The Russians sold the alien technology to the highest bidder and falls into the hands of a mysterious terrorist organisation, which uses it to create a devastating doomsday weapon. Female assassins Ekaterina Demidrova and Niki have the assignment to stop the terrorist organisation.

She plays Ekaterina Demidrova next to Samantha Streets and Jason Yee who plays the lead role as Jake in''The Girl from the Naked Eye'' (2012). Jake is driver of a seedy escort service who operates at the ''Naked Eye strip club''. He falls for a witty high-class escort girl Sandy (played by Samantha Streets) who also works at the "Naked Eye strip club". Jake goes on manhunt to find the killer of Sandy after he has found her death.

She plays vampire slayer babe Serena in this story about Bob (played by Robert Chapin) who fails to become actor after several unsuccessful attempts in ''The Hunted'' (2015). One day he's bitten by a vampire named Susan (played by Monique Ganderton), who the daughter is of crazy vigilante slayer Harry (played by David Baker). Harry believes that Bob the "chosen one" is, who has been foretold to lead the slayers in a revolt against the vampires.

She plays an horse ripper in this story where the clock ticks down towards a new world holocaust with only four days left in the short action movie "Black Salt" (2015). The game-changing WMD also known as the Exterminatus is stolen by an evil Yakuza master. Interpol's deadliest black-ops agent Samuel Tharpe (played by Kinyumba Mutakabbir) has the assignment to bring it back. He follows the trial deep into the ancient land of China where he must fight against skilled monks at a Shaolin Temple. The fate of mankind rests in the hands of Interpol agent Samuel.

She plays in one episode of the action TV series ''CSI: NY (2009)'' and played Mileena in four episodes of the action TV series ''Mortal Kombat: Legacy'' (2013). She plays also in one episode of the action TV series ''Metal Hurlant Chronicles (2014)''.

Action Movie Filmography

  • Black Salt (2015)
  • The Hunted (2015)
  • Metal Hurlant Chronicles (2014) ''TV Series''
  • Mortal Kombat: Legacy (2013) ''TV Series''
  • The Girl from the Naked Eye (2012)
  • Cold Fusion (2011)
  • Supreme Champion (2010)
  • Blood and Bone (2009)
  • Sleeping Dragon (2009) ''Short''
  • CSI: NY (2009) ''TV Series''
  • Depth Charge (2008)
  • Cleaner (2008) ''Short''
  • The Living Sword (2008) ''Short''
  • Stiletto (2008)
  • Broken Fists (2006) ''Short''
  • Girl with Gun (2006) ''Short''
  • Chicks with Sticks, Part 3 (2004)