Michaela Quinn

Michaela Quinn is an American actress, singer, comedian, and writer. She was born in Philadelphia, PA on brisk autumn day (September 18, 1988 to be exact). Michaela was first mistaken as a boy and thus was named Michael for the first few minutes of her life. Michaela is half Irish / Italian so she has a pretty good comprehension of fine food and spirits as well as mad street cred. Her father, Edward Quinn, owns his own team-building and leadership company, The InnerWork Company, and her mother Lisa Berrone, the Italian-woman, served in the US Air Force as a Russian Linguist before working as a high-school English teacher for much of her career. Her parents eloped in Ireland and got married at a bar. When they were honeymooning, her mother heard the name "Michaela" on the beach and decided she wanted to name her daughter that. Michaela always knew she wanted to be an actress when she was a child, and frequently wrote and directed many plays with her girlfriends as a young girl. Her interest in the arts further peaked when she got cast in her high school play 'Crazy for You' as Lottie Childs, the Jewish mother of the play's main character, Bobby Childs. Michaela loves to do many characters and voices, and her depiction of the typical 'Jewish Motha' in Gershwin's musical 'Crazy For You', had the crowd in stitches. Much to the dismay of her soccer coach and academic advisors at Academy of the New Church, a boarding school in which Michaela attended, Michaela decided to expedite her studies online, and left ANC to move to New York at age 17 to pursue a career in acting. She entered into New York Film Academy's 'Acting for Film' school and studied intensively for 8 months with many of NYFA's accomplished teachers. Though Michaela wanted to begin auditioning right away, her parents urged her to get a degree. Since Michaela wanted to stay in New York and continue her acting studies, she auditioned for Fordham University Lincoln Center's program and was accepted in the Fall of 2006, as one of twenty lucky students in a pool of over 1,000 applicants. Michaela can currently be seen on ABC's General Hospital as well as a few other TV shows in Los Angeles. She continues to perform stand-up in LA's comedy scene and is the in process of writing some screenplays.