Michelle Rendall

Michelle Elizabeth Rendall is an American actress and singer known for a variety of stage roles as well as her appearances on Center Stage as Sharen, a vein, manipulative singer with very little talent.

Early Life
Rendall was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on February 9, 1975. She graduated from Union High School in Tulsa before attending the University of Tulsa, majoring in theatre and vocal performance. After graduating with a BA in theatre in 1996, she moved to New York and trained under legendary acting teacher Uta Hagen at the HB Studio for three years. She also studied at Sanford Meisner's Neighborhood Playhouse.

Career
Rendall's professional career began on stage, with a small role in Once Upon A Mattress. She later earned a number of starring roles, including Hope Cladwell in Urinetown.

Center Stage
Center Stage's casting director, Nancy Shapiro, contacted Rendall's agent and asked if she would be interested in doing the show. Her agent called back and declined, so the show's producers assumed Rendall was not interested. However, Rendall herself called Parish a week later, saying she would love to do the show. Rendall's agent had never even told her about the offer, rejecting it on the assumption that Rendall would not want to play such a character. Rendall first appeared in the second-season episode, "Waiting For A Star To Bawl".

Personal Life
Rendall has a home in New York but currently divides her time between New York and Los Angeles.

Trivia
One of her early jobs was a performer in a musical review in a small town in Arizona. The audience was loud and disruptive during most of the show, so she stopped performing, proclaimed "I guess that's what I get for trying to bring culture to this fucking shithole", and walked off.