Michelle Ryan Biography
Born: April 22, 1984
Prior to her role as the new Bionic Woman, U.K. audiences were familiar with British actress Michelle Ryan thanks to her five-year run (2000-2005) as Zoe Slater on the long-running BBC soap opera EastEnders. After she left that series, a role in Sean_Ellis' moderately successful indie comedy Cashback (2006), as Suzy, the ex-girlfriend of Ben (Sean_Biggerstaff) gained her some notice on the festival circuit, and U.K. audiences saw more of her on the modern-day -Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde retelling Jekyll. It wasn't until her resuscitation of Jaime Sommers in the late-2007 NBC revamp of the 1970s adventure drama The_Bionic_Woman, however, that Ryan achieved significant international notice. Unfortunately, the series stumbled after initially drawing an impressive audience, and once the production was halted due to the writers' strike -- after only eight episodes had aired -- the show failed to be renewed. That same year, Ryan also appeared in the features Flick and I_Want_Candy. The former is a British horror picture about a psychotic, rampaging 1950s rock & roll rebel, the latter, a smarmy sex comedy about a couple of college students who get in over their heads when attempting to produce a porno film with a sleazy starlet (Carmen_Electra) as their lead. Nathan Southern, Rovi
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