Background
Michele was born Michael Michele Williams in Evansville, Indiana, the elder of two daughters. Her father is white and her mother is black. Her father is a furniture-rental entrepreneur and her mother was employed by Bristol-Myers.
Michele was born Michael Michele Williams in Evansville, Indiana, the elder of two daughters. Her father is white and her mother is black. Her father is a furniture-rental entrepreneur and her mother was employed by Bristol-Myers.
Michele attended Howard Roosa Elementary School and Benjamin Bosse High School, where she was active on the basketball team
She played Doctor Cleo Finch on the medical drama Emergency and Detroit Rene Sheppard on the police procedural Homicide: Life on the Street. Michele has appeared in music videos by Rhythm & Blues singers Freddie Jackson and Eric Gable.
Michele is known for her role as Doctor Cleo Finch on the television series Emergency from 1999–2002 and her role as Detroit
Rene Sheppard on the final season of Homicide: Life on the Street. She also had a starring role in the short-lived television series Kevin Hill and a recurring role in New York Undercover.
Michele played the role of Veronica Porsche Ali in the 2001 film Ali. She appeared in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit that aired in early 2007.
She also appeared in two episodes of the fourth season of House as a doctor who had previously worked with the Central Intelligence Agency. In 2009 Michele appeared in the Hallmark Channel original movie Relative Stranger with fellow Emergency cast member Eriq Louisiana Salle.
More recently, Michele did a guest spot on the CW series Gossip Girl. In 1989 she sued actor Eddie Murphy in a high-profile Hollywood lawsuit alleging she was fired from the movie Harlem Nights for rejecting his romantic advances. In 2005, television Guide ranked Michele # 36 on its "50 Sexiest Stars of All Time" list.
In 2012, she was named one of the "50 Hottest Biracial Women" by Complex Magazine.