Roz Michaels

Roz Michaels' parents were first-generation Americans, with grandparents having immigrated from Italy and Hungary. Her father, Michael, made a comfortable living as a painting contractor, and as an avid gardener, won many awards for his roses. Her mother, Myra, (nee Pusty) was born in Pennyslvania and when just 6 months old, her father was killed in a coal-mining accident. Roz has one sibling, a sister, Carolyn. She attended Our Lady of Victories Catholic Grammar School and followed with a public school education at Henry Snyder High, graduating in 1965. Following high school and her parents' alternative choice to 'acting school', she attended the Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York City. Performing had been a burning desire since childhood, but she didn't act on it until her mid-thirties, when she was encouraged by a friend to audition for a local play, landed a role and found the missing ingredient to her personal fulfillment...performing.