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Michelle Ang is an actress, director and producer from New Zealand. Working mainly in film and television, she has won various professional accolades, including Best Actress at the New Zealand Film & Television Awards and Best Director at Show Me Shorts. Ang's acting work has also been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the US and a Logie in Australia.

Early life and education
Ang was born in Christchurch and is of Malaysian Chinese descent. As a child, she was a dancer and performed with the Royal New Zealand Ballet in productions of The Nutcracker, ''A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet''. As a university student, she completed studies at Victoria University of Wellington for a double degree: a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration (B.C.A.) in Accounting with Commercial Law and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. ==Career==
Career
Television Ang got her start in television at a young age through the family series Young Entertainers. Here, she got to show her skills at singing and dancing, much like The Mickey Mouse Club show on US television. She played Tai-San in the New Zealand post-apocalyptic drama The Tribe as part of the core cast from 1999 to 2001, and featured in the final episodes of the 2002 series. Ang also guest starred in the final 2 episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess as Akemi. Ang played Lori Lee in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, in which she was a major character from 2002 to 2003. Ang left Neighbours to finish her university studies but returned briefly in 2004. She appeared in 80 episodes in total. Ang was nominated for a Logie Award for Most Popular New Female Talent for this role. In 2015, Ang starred in the web series Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462 as Alex, a passenger caught on a flight at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse, and went on to appear in the main series Fear the Walking Dead. Ang received an Emmy nomination for her work on Flight 462. In 2020, she had a recurring role in The New Legends of Monkey. She also guest starred in the rebooted series of The Twilight Zone screened on CBS All Access. In 2021 to 2024, Ang voiced a lead role in the Disney+ original animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch as Omega, a mysterious female clone of Jango Fett. She was invited to keep her native New Zealand accent for the role in homage to fellow New Zealander Temuera Morrison, who portrayed Jango Fett in the franchise. In 2023, Ang starred as Melissa Wu in the comedy series Homebound 3.0. It was initially screened in New Zealand on the Warner Bros. Discovery channel Three, which commissioned it. It has also been made available internationally via the BBC. In 2024, the series was renewed for a second season, which was broadcast in 2025. Also in 2025, Ang started work as a Series Producer for Be With Zee, an animated pre-school series to be broadcast in 2026. The series is a co-production between companies and broadcasters in New Zealand and Canada. Film Ang made her feature film debut in 2004's Futile Attraction. Ang had also appeared in a series of low-budget New Zealand short films including Forbidden Fury and Take 3. In 2006 she appeared in No.2, directed by Toa Fraser. In 2011 Ang portrayed a nerdy Chinese New Zealander in the romantic comedy My Wedding and Other Secrets, her first lead role in a feature. It won her the Best Lead Actress in a Feature Film Award at the 2011 New Zealand Aotearoa Film & Television Awards. Her other film credits include Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son and Triple 9. Prior to her role in The Bad Batch, Ang had auditioned for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. ==Personal life==
Personal life
Ang has a son. Ang has named The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle as a book that influenced her. ==Filmography==
Filmography
Film (as actor) Television (as actor) Video Games ==Awards and nominations==
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