Michele Simon
Michele Simon is known for Dog by Dog (2015), Chow Down (2010) and Killer at Large (2008).
Michele Soavi
Born in Milan, Italy in 1957, Michele Soavi's parents separated when he was little and he lived with his mother who remarried a painter. Interested in his stepfather's interest in painting, Soavi began an interest in creative arts in his school. During his teenage years, he decided that the cinema was his true calling after attending several movie screenings and developing a taste for acting. After graduating from high school, Soavi took acting lessons at Fersen Studios in Milan. His first acting role was an extra in the movie Bambulè (1979) which was directed by Marco Modugno. During production, Modugno, impressed by Soavi's interest in the movies, offered him a job as an assistant director which Soavi accepted and learned more about a director's film making technique. After acting in small roles in Il giorno del Cobra (1980) and Paura nella città dei morti viventi (1980), Soavi was given another chance as an assistant director by director Aristide Massaccesi (aka: Joe D'Amato). In their first film, Soavi acted in an uncredited part, and was the assistant director. Over four more films with Massaccesi, Soavi served as a bit part actor, screenwriter and personal assistant. Soavi first met writer/director Dario Argento in 1979 where the director took Soavi under his wing after learning of their same tastes with film making. Argento made Soavi the second assistant director for the movie Tenebre (1982) with Lamberto Bava as the first assistant director. Pleased with his work, Bava hired Soavi as his assistant director for the mystery-thriller La casa con la scala nel buio (1983) with Soavi in a supporting role. Afterwards, Argento brought back Soavi to work as his assistant director in Phenomena (1985) with Soavi acting in a small role. Argento rewarded Soavi by giving him his first assignment as director of a music video "The Valley" featuring music by Bill Wyman for the movie Phenomena, plus as director for a documentary on Argento's films. Soavi worked again for Lamberto Bava as assistant director in Dèmoni (1985) in which Soavi also appeared. Soavi, wanting to get on his own, turned to his former mentor Aristide Massaccesi to show off his work where the director offered Soavi a chance to direct his first movie, Deliria (1987). Altough a box-office flop in Italy, it was a success abroad. Despite the low budget (equivalent to under $1 million U.S. dollars), low-production values, poor editing involving the soundtrack, Soavi began to look elsewhere for work where he was hired as an assistant director and cameraman for British actor/director Terry Gilliam with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). With new skills, Soavi returned to Argento as a supervisor for special effects in Opera (1987) where Argento offered him to direct another film, a horror flick called La chiesa (1989). With his first big film project, a budget three to four times the budget of Stagefright, with Argento as the producer and filmed on location in Budapest. The international success of The Church inspired Soavi to direct another film, La setta (1991). Soavi worked on a number of screenplays, and directed the horror-comedy Dellamorte Dellamore (1994) which was a huge hit in the USA. Afterwards, Soavi took a break from working to spend time with his wife and family. Recently, he returned to directing with two made-for-Italian-TV dramas. Despite his absence from the entertainment world in recent years, Michele Soavi is remembered to this day as one of the many masters of Italian horror cinema as a director, screenwriter, actor, and assistant director.
Michele Soza
Michele Soza is an actress, known for Forsaken (2016).
Michele Spears
Michele Spears is known for Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998), Freshman Dorm (1992) and LearningTown (2013).
Michele Specht
Michele grew up in Colorado - and got up on every stage she could manage singing, acting, and unfortunately dancing from the time she could say: "jazz hands". She earned degrees in Theater and Classical Vocal Music Performance, completed a prestigious theater internship with "Theatre de La Juene Lune", then moved to London to bartend. After slinging martinis at the Royal Albert Hall for a couple of years, she moved to Los Angeles to sling less pretentious martinis. She hooked up with a sketch comedy group called A.S.S. (Another Showcase Showdown) with which she created and performed dozens of original comedy characters, sketches, short films, and musical numbers for over 8 years all over LA and beyond - including the HBO Comedy Workspace and the Aspen Comedy Arts Festival. A.S.S.'s founding members started a TV/film production company - Drama 3/4 - who were then hired by the VH1 Network to create, write, and produce VH1's first and only original scripted comedy television show: "I Hate My 30's" in which Michele starred as series regular Katie. She also showed up on other shows like "CSI:NY" and Disney's 'Kickin-It", on Lifetime Network movies like "Backyard Wedding", and in a lot more commercials than she can recall at the moment. She has also been on movie screens with Harvey Keitel in "The Last Godfather", Loretta Divine in "Politics of Love", and Tom Sizemore in "The Columbian Connection". Currently, she's known to Sci Fi fans as the Starship Enterprises' first ship's counselor, Dr. Elise McKennah in "Star Trek Continues", as insane bounty hunter Red in the "Fallout: Nuka Break" series, and as Betty the Personality Core in the Portal-based series "Aperture R&D". She also got to talking into microphones and found her voice showing up in movies like "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", in video games like "Star Trek: Online", "Final Fantasy XIII", and "Dynasty Warriors", and in animated series like Funimation's "Ouran High School Host Club", "Tsubasa Chronicle", "Claymore", and others. She lives in Los Angeles, and spends most of her time on set and in life being told: "GREAT - now take it down a notch."
Michele Spitz
Michele Spitz of Woman of Her Word is a voiceover artist, public speaker, and philanthropist most passionate about advocating for media accessibility and disability awareness. Michele is dedicated to selectively funding audio description post production accessibility grants to ensure that media content is equally accessible to low vision and blind audiences. She has 8 years experience of producing, narrating, consulting, and project managing audio description assets for film, broadcast, digital media, film festivals, museums, educational content, promotional and fundraising media. Woman of Her Word funds audio description production for a significant percentage of the 80+ hand selected media projects to date with which her company has chosen to be aligned. Michele promotes media accessibility awareness and audience inclusion through ongoing public speaking engagements, thought provoking panels and educational settings. Michele has guest lectured in the film department for NYU Tisch, Disability in Media Department at Montclair University, Film Exhibition Department and Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson. She has taught the Respectability Summer Lab on audio description for the past 3 years for students with disabilities in media. A partial list of panels and presentations include the 2021 Sundance Film Festival Panel, Gotham, DOC NYC, IDA Getting Real '20 Conference, Film Independent, New York Film Festival, MVFF, ReelAbilities NY & LA Film Festivals, Women in Film Los Angeles (WIF LA), SAG-AFTRA LA, New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), Diamond, PBS and Women in Tech Hollywood. Michele is often called upon to participate as a presenter conducting media accessibility workshops or seminars for multiple film and media organizations. Michele was the impetus consulting with the Motion Picture Academy that resulted in the 1st ever Audio Described Broadcast of the 93rd Academy Awards. Woman of Her Word was the first to initiate and fund British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) scholarships for graduate film students with disabilities, originate and fund annual finishing film media accessibility grants for NYWIFT and WIF LA, instate and underwrite tuition for students with disabilities to attend the bi annual American Council for the Blind Audio Description Institute, as well as fund assistive performing arts audience technology. She produced and narrated the audio description for the 41st and the upcoming 42nd Media Access Awards ceremony making the virtual event platform equally accessible to visually impaired audiences. She consulted with the upcoming 2021 SOVAS Awards aligning the first time ever audio description narration categories and will be curating and moderating a panel for their Career Expo. Michele's forthcoming endeavors aspire to design media accessibility impact campaign fellowships. Michele is unique in that she is committed to working very closely with every film client to enlist their participation in advocating and promoting their film production's accessibility assets and furthermore advise on implementing and incorporating the audio description deliverables throughout all distribution and exhibition platforms for the shelf life of the film. For 8+ years, Michele has traveled extensively between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York to ascertain and merge together East and West Coast media and cultural arts accessibility philosophies and methodologies. She will be expanding her travel to the UK periodically to further her research and experience in media and arts accessibility approaches. Some of the few highlights of Michele's media portfolio include Lucy and Desi, Carole King and Jame Taylor: Just Call Out My Name, Dealt, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, The Great14th: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama In His Own Words, Pavarotti and The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart. Michele has been featured in The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, NBC, SF Examiner, PRN.FM, KWMR, and multiple podcasts to name a few. Woman of Her Word's pledge is unwavering in the pursuit for inclusion in media and the arts. Michele's very presence is a unifying force which results in equality for the communities that she serves. website: www.womanofherword.com
Michele Stefanile
Michele Stefanile is an actor, known for From the Vine (2019).
Michele Turla
Michele Turla is an actor, known for Cristiano Rolando (2018).
Michele Valley
Michele Valley is an actress, known for Kynodontas (2009), Pretty Smart (1987) and Singapore sling: O anthropos pou agapise ena ptoma (1990).
Michele Venitucci
Michele Venitucci was born on September 4, 1974 in Bari, Apulia, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Fuori dalle corde (2007), Rocco tiene tu nombre (2015) and Istmo (2020).
