Michelle Federer is an American film and theatre actress.
Background
Federer is the daughter of John and Claudia Federer. She grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, where she was a student of the Shaker Heights High School Theatre Arts Department under the direction of James Thornton, and she gained early experience working in the University School Theater Program, where she first worked and became friends with future Wicked castmate Michael Seelbach.
Education
As a teen, Federer attended Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Camp, located in Loch Sheldrake, New New York In 1995, she graduated from Ithaca College, located in Ithaca, New York, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre.
Career
Federer"s father was a math teacher in the Shaker Heights Public School System teaching at Byron Junior High School (now Shaker Heights Middle School) and currently teaches at the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland"s Saperstien Campus. She also appeared as Allison in the Atlantic Company"s production of Anon in 2007. Television and Film Federer has also appeared in various small film roles, including the biographical film Kinsey (2004) and independent romance film Flannel Pajamas (2006).
Federer appeared in a recurring role on National Broadcasting Company"s Smash in which she plays Monica Swift, the wife of Michael (Will Chase) who has an affair with Debra Messing"s character Julia.
The series also stars Megan Hilty, who starred on Broadway alongside Federer in Wicked. The show premiered in the United States on February 6, 2012.