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Michele Lee (Michelle Lee Dusick) was born on 24 June, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA, is an actress,director,soundtrack. Discover Michele Lee's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

Popular As Michelle Lee Dusick
Occupation actress,director,soundtrack
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 24 June, 1942
Birthday 24 June
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, USA
Nationality United States

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Michele Lee Height, Weight & Measurements

At 82 years old, Michele Lee height is 5' 8½" (1.74 m) .

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Height 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
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Who Is Michele Lee's Husband?

Her husband is Fred A. Rappoport (27 September 1987 - present), James Farentino (20 February 1966 - 22 June 1983) ( divorced) ( 1 child)

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Husband Fred A. Rappoport (27 September 1987 - present), James Farentino (20 February 1966 - 22 June 1983) ( divorced) ( 1 child)
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Michele Lee Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Michele Lee worth at the age of 82 years old? Michele Lee’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actress. She is from United States. We have estimated Michele Lee's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
Salary in 2023 Under Review
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Source of Income Actress

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Timeline

1942

The daughter of a premier makeup artist and the sister of a United States District Attorney, Michele Lee was born Michele Lee Dusick on June 24, 1942 in Los Angeles, California. Her childhood was consumed by the Hollywood entertainment industry. Lee was outgoing and had taken every chance to do plays in front of her family and friends. In junior high school, she continued acting in school plays.

1960

Graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, California, in 1960.

1961

Met her first husband James Farentino after she starred in a 1961 Broadway musical, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" at a theatre on W. 46th Street, and he was simultaneously appearing in the drama "The Night of the Iguana" by Tennessee Williams at a theatre just one block away on W. 45th Street.

1963

Shortly after she appeared in Broadway shows and became a singer, she began making a number of guest appearances on television doing dancing, singing and performing comedy routines on most live-action segments, most notably The Danny Kaye Show (1963). She was only 22 and her career was off to a firing start. She continued making guest appearances on a number of television specials and live-action series.

1967

However, the silver screen took precedence as she made her movie debut with the film How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (1967), followed by The Comic (1969), co-starring Dick Van Dyke.

1968

A year that, after her first child was born and soon after, she was back at work, starring as Secretary Carole Bennett on The Love Bug (1968), that it was the best movie of 1970 and it made it to the top of the box office all across the country.

1970

While her laughter was brought unto the world and after giving birth to David Farentino, several months later her father passed away of a severe heart attack in 1970 at age 54. Michele was devastated by the loss of her father but she quickly directed herself to head back to work.

1974

She accepted a role on Broadway in "Seesaw", where her work gave her a 1974 Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Musical.

However, tragedy haunted Michele when she was unable to spring back for a long time after her mother died in 1974.

1978

After the death of her parents, she was approached by producers David Jacobs (creator of Dallas (1978)) and Michael Filerman while on the set of the TV movie, Bud and Lou (1978), in which she was acting in a role without singing or dancing. Two weeks later, Jacobs and Filerman asked her to star in the pilot for a series called Knots Landing (1979). In fact, ever since she had guest-starred in several dramatic and sitcom television series in the early 70s, she'd been looking for a television series to star in, hoping for a situation comedy, but instead she ended up on a dramatic series.

1979

Near the end of 1979, after being on vacation with her husband and only child, she accepted the leading role of the feisty-yet-friendly neighbor Karen Fairgate MacKenzie in the prime-time soap opera Knots Landing (1979), which spun-off the immensely popular serial Dallas (1978) on CBS. For 14 of those years, Michele was the big asset of the series and by the very first year that it debuted, it had low ratings and producers, at times, wanted to send "Dallas" stars to the cul-de-sac, including that of Larry Hagman, who met Lee after the pilot episode.

1980

By the Fall of 1980, Lee and the producers of "Knots Landing" always wanted to do something better in order to boost up the ratings and in September of that same year, after refusing to accept "no" for an answer, former dancer and movie starlet Donna Mills came to the series by playing Lee's manipulative, nasty and least popular sister-in-law Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner, and the series became #1 for the next 13 seasons, among other 1980s soaps that stood the test of time.

1982

By 1982, she was nominated for one Emmy Award, but had won the Soap Opera Digest Award, three times.

1983

The triumph of the series was splendid but in real-life, her marriage to James Farentino was a burden and the couple was divorced in 1983.

1989

In 1989, while going on strong with her role on "Knots Landing", she also became the series' director, starting to direct several episodes of the series and just before Donna Mills left, making Lee the big star of the series.

1991

Is a longtime friend of former child star Ricky Schroder. She hired him to play her character's son in My Son Johnny (1991) in the early 1990s.

1992

By the 14th and the final season, most of her co-stars of "Knots Landing" were asked to be absent (except co-star Joan Van Ark, who left in 1992) a number of times on the series, but for Lee, she had declined to be absent and wanted to show up without pay.

1993

In 1993, "Knots Landing" was cancelled when her second family came to a close and due to high salary amongst her co-stars. When the series was dropped away from its schedule on CBS, she was open to new opportunities. She began to produce and develop her own television movies through her own production company.

1995

In 1995, after learning a great deal from her idol Dottie West, she appeared in the CBS-TV movie Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story (1995), playing the character of the same name doing all the singing and knowing what it was like to be Dottie West.

1996

In 1996, she became the first woman to produce, direct, write, and star in a motion picture made for television, Color Me Perfect (1996), which won the Christopher Award.

1997

Before she came back to do a reunion movie called Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac (1997), she played a retarded woman named Dina Blake on Lifetime's Color Me Perfect (1996) and was the first lady to star, write and produce a movie for Cable Television and, like The Love Bug, it was the best movie on Cable Television in 1996.

1998

Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6363 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on November 19, 1998.

1999

She has had an incredible career that spans almost 40 years in television, film and on stage and in 1999, she earned her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which is located not far from the site of her very first audition for "Vintage '60".

2001

Relocated to New York in 2001, while appearing on Broadway in "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife".

2010

When she was in the 10th grade at Los Angeles' Alexander Hamilton High School, she tried out for the band and was the lead singer for that. Prior to her graduation from Hamilton, she landed her first role in the Broadway revue, "Vintage '60" and her career was launched. A small role in "Bravo Giovanni" and the lead role as Rosemary in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" followed. Her musical talent was brought to the attention of Columbia Records (now Sony) and she signed to the label in a hurry.