Michelle Johnson
Biography
Michelle Johnson is an American actress who moved from fashion modeling into films in the 1980s. Born in Anchorage, Alaska, and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, she was named International Model of the Year in 1982 and signed with the Wilhelmina agency in New York. Stanley Donen spotted a photograph of her in W and cast her in Blame It on Rio (1984). She played Kim Carlisle in the eighth season of The Love Boat and went on to films such as Gung Ho (1986), Waxwork (1988), Dr. Giggles (1992) and The Glimmer Man (1996). Her television work included Linda Kolkena Broderick in A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story (1992) and its sequel, plus Dallas: War of the Ewings (1998). After her last major film role, in Mickey (2004), she returned to acting in the digital Christmas special Brat Holiday Spectacular (2018).
61years old
Turns 62 on September 9in 330 days
- Born Anchorage
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 12
- Career span
- 20 years1984 to 2004
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Big break
Johnson was 16 and just starting as a fashion model when director Stanley Donen spotted her photograph in the fashion biweekly W and cast her in his film Blame It on Rio.
A change of course
Johnson was the 1982 winner of the International Model of the Year competition. She started fashion print work at 16 and the Wilhelmina agency in New York City signed her soon after.
Michelle Johnson movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Michelle Johnson shares two films with Nancy Fish, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Nancy Fish's page
Michael Caine's page
Bruce Willis's page
Brian Cox's page
John Rhys-Davies's page
Stephen Tobolowsky's page
All films by Ron Howard
Box office
What Michelle Johnson's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$372 million
8 of the 12 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 12 films: 8 worldwide figure; 2 never in cinemas; 2 figure not found.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 2Never in cinemas
- 2Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$149M40.1% of the total
- 2$138M37.0% of the total
- 3$37M9.8% of the total
- 4$20M5.5% of the total
- 5$19M5.0% of the total
- 6$8.4M2.3% of the total
- 7$808K0.2% of the total
- 8$294K0.1% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.