Occupation Actress Role Actress Name Michelle Meyrink | Children 3 Years active 1983 - 1988 Spouse John Dumbrille | |
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Movies Similar People Gabriel Jarret, Deborah Foreman, Martha Coolidge, Jon Gries, Darren Dalton | ||
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Michelle Meyrink (born September 1, 1962) is a Canadian former actress.
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- Former actress acting instructor michelle meyrink real genius revenge of the nerds the movie raid
- Early life
- Acting career
- Leaving acting for Zen Buddhism
- Trivia
- Filmography
- References
Early life
Meyrink was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and began acting at an early age.
Acting career
She performed roles during the 1980s in both television and in feature films, mostly playing roles as offbeat teen girls, and she appeared in many comedy films, including 1983s Valley Girl as Suzi Brent, 1983's The Outsiders as Cherry Valance's best friend Marcia. In 1984 she guest-starred on the television show Family Ties as Mallory's friend (and character "Skippy"'s latest infatuation).
She is best remembered as the female nerd Judy in the 1984 comedy Revenge of the Nerds and as the hyperactive whiz-kid Jordan Cochran in Martha Coolidge's 1985 film Real Genius. Her last Hollywood role was in the 1988 film Permanent Record.
Leaving acting for Zen Buddhism
Meyrink gave up acting as a career in 1989, stating she wanted more out of life than the profession was offering. During this transition period she became interested in the practice of Zen Buddhism. She moved for a time to the Dominican Republic to be near family members living there. Meyrink later returned to her hometown of Vancouver, where in 1996 she met her future husband John Dumbrille at the Zen Centre of Vancouver. Following their wedding, she and John began raising a family of three children (aged 25, 21, and 17, as of June 2016) and Meyrink kept and used her birth name.
Meyrink and Dumbrille currently live in Vancouver, BC. Her family was the subject of a 2004 episode of the Canadian television series Quiet Mind which focused on their embrace and practice of Zen Buddhism.
Meyrink started her own acting school named Actorium in Vancouver. It is modeled, in part, after the Loft Studio, which she attended with other Hollywood actors while she worked in Los Angeles.
Trivia
In 2010 Wired.com named Jordan Cochran, Meyrink's Real Genius character, as #6 on their "Top 10 Greatest Minor Characters in Geek Fiction" list. Writer Matt Blum noted "Michelle Meyrink deserves most of the credit for Jordan’s appearance on this list".