Michele Lee Filmography

Michele Lee is an American singer, dancer, actress, producer, director and frequent game show panelist of the 1970s. She is best known for her role as Karen Cooper Fairgate MacKenzie on the 1980s prime-time soap opera, Knots Landing. She also co-starred with Dean Jones in the 1968 Disney film, The Love Bug. Lee was born Michele Lee Dusick in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Sylvia Helen and Jack Dusick, a make-up artist. She is of Russian, Hungarian and Polish descent. She began her career on television in an episode of the late 1950s sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. She... attended Alexander Hamilton High School where she became popular with her class. When she was 18, after graduation from high school, she auditioned for the Broadway play, Vintage '60. She soon began appearing in musicals, becoming a star on Broadway at the age of 19 in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying opposite Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee, a role she reprised in the film version.
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