Michelle Holmes

Michelle Holmes is an actor and casting director, known for A Weekend with Barbara und Ingrid (1992), Angus Petfarkin Paints His Masterpiece (2009), Sugar: The Fall of the West (1998), and Fudge (1995). Her film, Song from a Blackbird (2014), was seen at the Cannes Film Festival, and The Very Scientific System (2014) was named best film at The Peter Stark Film Event. Her feature Chemical Cut (2016) had its world premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival, where she is featured with her beloved dog, Alice. And her newest film The Impasse of Light (2016) in which she stars as Angela, had its premiere at Warner Bros. Studios. Michelle is also a gifted singer with many musical theatre credits as well as her own band, Crazy Aunt Mary, which she is the principal singer, songwriter, and bassist for. In Michelle's newest theatrical production, a staged version of the classic silent film "Nosferatu" in which she plays the iconic Count Orlok, online film magazine The Gull Cottage writes, "[Holmes is] profoundly astounding; evocatively creepy beyond rational descriptiveness." She won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her work in "The Crucible" and both the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and the LA Weekly Award for her work in "Dreamgirls," which has also garnered her an NAACP Award nomination. Her work in "The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein" as Frau Blùcher earned her an Ovation Nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Musical and a Stage Raw Nomination for Best Female Comic Performance. Frau Blùcher also gave her a Los Angeles Times Critic's Choice nod ("Holmes brings down the house"), and The LA Beat called her, "The incomparable Michelle Holmes" for her work as Annas in "Jesus Christ Superstar." "Jesus Christ Superstar" and her most recent show, "Nunsense" (StageSceneLA - "Holmes abandons all decorum to hilarious effect") were named Best Musical Revivals of the Year by Bitter Lemons, and both productions earned Eddon Awards as Best Musical Ensemble. "Jesus Christ Superstar" has also been nominated by Stage Raw as best Musical of the Year. As a songwriter, her work has won Billboard, ASCAP, and Indiegrrl Awards and qualified her as a member of NARAS, where she is a Grammy voter. Michelle is passionate about animals and advocates for them whenever and wherever she can. Show less «