Background
Clunie was born in Portland, Oregon, where she studied ballet, tap, jazz, and violin.
Clunie was born in Portland, Oregon, where she studied ballet, tap, jazz, and violin.
She was awarded a scholarship to The Academy of Professional Ballet where she studied and apprenticed throughout her teenage years.
She is perhaps best known for her roles as Melanie Marcus on Showtime"s critically acclaimed series Queer as Folk and as Ellen Beals on Make lieutenant or Break lieutenant She is currently a star on Music Television’s Teen Wolf as Mistress Finch. At 19 years old she sold her violin for $200 and moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue her acting career.
At 23 years old Clunie’s Los Angeles stage debut earned her a Dramalogue Award for Best Actress in in Dean Orion’s A Comedy of Eros performed at the Skylight Theatre.
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She became a series regular on The Jeff Foxworthy Show and guest starred on Emergency, The Tony Danza Show, House Doctor of Medicine, Without a Trace, NCIS, among several others Her big break came when she booked the part of "Melanie Marcus", a smart, determined and activist-minded lesbian attorney in the first-of-its-kind series, Queer as Folk.
Clunie plays the biology teacher, Mistress
Finch, on Music Television’s most successful scripted series to date, Teen Wolf. Michelle Clunie has always been one to speak out for things she passionately believes in. During her five seasons on Queer as Folk she became a vocal advocate for Human Rights, and for the last 15 years has dedicated much of her time to fighting for Full Equality.
She hosted the first fundraiser for the 2009 National Equality March on Washington and was honored to speak from the stage to the 200,000 attendees.
She has organized Get Out the Vote campaigns for key Democrats on both a national and local level, and in 2015 became a global ambassador for Pride Nation’s “Global March to Equality.”.