Michele Lee

Michele Lee

American actress, producer, and director
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Michele Lee (born Michele Lee Dusick, June 24, 1942) is an American actress, singer, dancer, producer and director. She is known for her role as Karen Cooper Fairgate MacKenzie on the 1980s prime-time soap opera Knots Landing (1979–93), for which she was nominated for a 1982 Emmy Award and won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Actress in 1988, 1991 and 1992. She was the only performer to appear in all 344 episodes of the series.

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Michele Lee was born on Wednesday, 24 June 1942 in Los Angeles, California. Her full name at birth was Michelle Lee Dusick. She is best known as an actress. Lee's country of citizenship (nationality) is American. Michele attended high school at Alexander Hamilton High School, Los Angeles, CA (1960). She is 5' 8½" (174 cm) tall with an average build. She has black hair (color). Her net worth is reported to be $8,000,000 US dollars. Michele Lee is 82 years old and her zodiac star sign is Cancer.

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Full name at birth
Michelle Lee Dusick
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Claim to fame
Knots Landing Karen Fairgate MacKenzie (1979-93)
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Date of birth
24 June 1942
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Los Angeles, California
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Actress, singer, dancer, producer, director, game show panelist
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5' 8½" (174 cm)
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Seductive husky voice
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Net worth
$8,000,000 USD
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High school
Alexander Hamilton High School, Los Angeles, CA (1960)
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(Differentiating between Knots Landing and Desperate Housewives): The Teri Hatcher character, (Susan Mayer), who is the moral center if you will that would be like a Karen, my character. Then, there's the bad girl, Nicolette Sheridan, (Edie Britt), who is much like Donna Mills.
  • Shares the same birthday and was born in the same city as Bruce Johnston.
  • Her first car was a Plymouth convertible.
  • Appeared alongside Bill Bixby on the pilot of a 1970s trashy game show "Cop Out" that has never aired.
  • Born at 1:25am-PWT.
  • Daughter of makeup artist Jack Dusick.

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