Michelle Arthur

Michelle Arthur is an English actress based in the United States. She has appeared in various television series, films, and video games. She is also known for her work with J. J. Abrams, appearing in Mission: Impossible III and episodes of Alias and Lost.

Career

=Film=

She appeared as the Thorpe Sisters in the 1987 film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey. Arthur also appeared in the James Bond film GoldenEye (1995) as "Anna Nishkova". She has also appeared in the 1997 film Clockwatchers as "Dianne", in Seabiscuit (2003) as "Marcela's friend", in Steven Spielberg's The Terminal (2004).

She also starred in the 2005 remake of Fun With Dick and Jane as Dick's secretary and in Mission: Impossible III (another collaboration with Abrams) as an airline worker. She appeared in the 2011 film Thin Ice.

=Television=

On television, Arthur has guest starred in shows such as Leap of Faith as "Claudia", four episodes of Alias as "Abigail" (a third Abrams collaboration), three episodes of Lost as "Michelle the flight attendant" (a fourth collaboration with Abrams), two episodes of The Big Bang Theory as "Mrs Petrescu" and one episode of Grey's Anatomy as "Brooke".

She was set to appear in J. J. Abrams' television series The Catch as "Stella", before its cancellation by ABC. She was a regular cast member and writer on the comedy Head Case as Lola on the Starz network.

=Voice work=

Arthur has also lent her voice to several video games, including Armed & Dangerous, playing three characters - "Leper Boy", "Leper Woman" and "Lady of the Pond", as well as voicing characters in X-Men Legends (as Moira & Female Prisoner #3) and EverQuest II (as Smith Cayless Chambers, Merchant Tanaira and Vida Sweeps). She has also done the voice of Jote from Final Fantasy XII.

Filmography

= Film =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1995

|GoldenEye

|Anna

1997

|Clockwatchers

|Diane, the Shoe Lady

2001

|Free

|Secretary

2004

|Seabiscuit

|Marcela's Friend

2004

|The Terminal

|Field Reporter

2005

|Fun with Dick and Jane

|Dick's Secretary

2006

|Mission: Impossible III

|Airline Worker

2006

|Happy Feet

|Adélie Chica

|Voice

2007

|The Number 23

|Sybil

2007

|Charlie Wilson's War

|Refugee Camp Nurse

2011

|Thin Ice

|Karla Gruenke

2012

|Battleship

|British Newscaster

2013

|Saving Mr. Banks

|Polly

2016

|Best Fake Friends

|Rachel

= Television =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1987

|Screen Two

|Thorpe Sisters

|Episode: "Northanger Abbey"

1998

|Players

|Doctor

|Episode: "Mint Condition"

2002

|Leap of Faith

|Claudia

|Episode: "The Balls Game"

2002

|Alias

|Abigail

| rowspan="2" |4 episodes

2004–2005

|Lost

|Michelle, Flight Attendant #3

2005

|Grey's Anatomy

|Brooke

|Episode: "Into You Like a Train"

2005

|The Catch

|Stella

|Television film

2007–2009

|Head Case

|Lola Buckingham

|28 episodes

2009

|Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

|Dana

|Episode: "Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep"

2011

|Private Practice

|Psychiatrist

|Episode: "Two Steps Back"

2015

|In-Between

|Dean Haglund

|Episode: "Murder"

2016, 2018

|The Big Bang Theory

|Mrs. Petrescu

| rowspan="2" |2 episodes

2018, 2020

|Mom

|Belinda

2019

|Station 19

|British Woman Tenney

|Episode: "Crazy Train"

2019, 2020

|Dirty John

|{{N/a}}

|2 episodes

2022

|The Villains of Valley View

|Grandma (voice)

|Episode: "Havoc-Ween"

= Video games =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Source

2003

|Armed and Dangerous

|Leper Boy, Leper Woman, The Lady Of The Pond

2004

|X-Men Legends

|Moira MacTaggert, Female Prisoner #3

2004

|EverQuest II

|Smith Cayless Chambers, Merchant Tanaira, Vida Sweeps

2006

|Final Fantasy XII

|Jote

|{{cite web |title=Michelle Arthur (visual voices guide) |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Michelle-Arthur/ |website=Behind The Voice Actors |access-date=6 July 2023}}

2012

|Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

|Additional voices

2013

|Marvel Heroes

|Valkyrie

2014

|The Elder Scrolls Online

|Almalexia, Lyranth, Meridia, Additional voices

2014

|WildStar

|Luminai Female