Biography
Michelle Forbes is an American actress. Born Michelle Renee Forbes Guajardo on 8 January 1965 in Austin, Texas, she trained at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston and began her professional career in her teens after signing with the William Morris Agency.
She first received attention for a dual role in the daytime soap opera Guiding Light, earning a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. Forbes is known for recurring and regular roles on television including Ensign Ro Laren in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), Julianna Cox in Homicide: Life on the Street (1996–1998), Admiral Helena Cain in Battlestar Galactica (2005–2006), and Maryann Forrester in True Blood (2009–2010). She has also appeared in 24, Prison Break, The Killing and the film Columbus (2017).
Forbes won a Saturn Award and has received Primetime Emmy Award and other nominations.
