Michelle Meyrink
Biography
Michelle Meyrink is a Canadian former actress and teacher who started performing at an early age and became known in the 1980s for offbeat teenage characters in comedies. Born in Vancouver, she worked in both television and feature films, playing Suzi Brent in Valley Girl (1983) and Marcia, the best friend of Cherry Valance, in The Outsiders, and guest-starring in 1984 on Family Ties. She is best remembered as the nerd Judy in Revenge of the Nerds (1984) and as the whiz kid Jordan Cochran in Real Genius (1985), directed by Martha Coolidge. Her last Hollywood role came in Permanent Record (1988), and she gave up acting in 1989. In 2013 she opened her own acting school, Actorium, in Vancouver, modeled in part on the Loft Studio she had attended in Los Angeles.
64years old
Turns 65 on September 1in 318 days
- Born Vancouver
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 5 years1983 to 1988
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Behind the camera
Meyrink attended the Loft Studio in Los Angeles with other Hollywood actors, and in 2013 she started her own acting school, Actorium, in Vancouver, modeled in part after that studio.
A first
Meyrink's final Hollywood role came in the 1988 movie Permanent Record. In 1989 she quit acting, saying the profession did not offer her enough in life.
Michelle Meyrink movies on Netflix
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The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Martha Coolidge directed three of these films. Six actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Darren Dalton's page
Cameron Dye's page
Paul Tulley2 films together, 1984 to 1985
Paul Tulley's page
Heidi Holicker2 films together, 1983 to 1984
Heidi Holicker's page
All films by Martha Coolidge
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