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Michelle Johnston

Highest Rated: 23% Showgirls (1995)

Lowest Rated: 23% Showgirls (1995)

Birthday: Oct 4, 1964

Birthplace: California, USA

Michelle Johnston rose up the ranks from chorus gypsy to choreographer of film and TV and featured performer herself. She got her first break in 1982 as a dancer in "One From the Heart," directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and then danced with John Travolta in "Staying Alive" (1983). Two years later, she was chosen by choreographer Jeffrey Hornaday as a dancer in "A Chorus Line," directed by Sir Richard Attenborough. Johnston became Bebe Benson, singing "At the Ballet," and also assisted Hornaday on the film. She went on to become Hornaday's assistant choreographer on Madonna's "Who's That Girl?" world tour, on the Michael Jackson film, "Captain EO," and on various music videos. Johnston then assisted Hornaday on "Dick Tracy," and danced in the film as well. She began choreographing on her own with an episode of "Tales From the Crypt" in 1990, and, when Hornaday was chosen to direct "Shout!," a John Travolta vehicle, he gave Johnston the nod to choreograph the film on her own -- the plot offered the story of a fugitive hired as a music teacher in a Texas town. Johnston went on to choreograph an episode of "Great Scott!" on Fox in 1992, as well as the Ray Liotta film, "Article 99" that same year. Also a singer as well as a dancer, Johnston was a mere 17 years old when she toured Japan performing and choreographing a stage show. Hornaday has directed her in a music video, "Here Comes My Baby," and she has performed in "Showgirls," the 1995 movie, and, that same year, made a straight comic performance as a Sears salesperson in "Grumpier Old Men."

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Highest rated movies

23% 38% Showgirls
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62% A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song
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California Casanova
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62% Blurt
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74% Another Cinderella Story
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71% A Cinderella Story: Starstruck
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Inside Voice
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50% Gleason
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40% A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish
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58% A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits
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Filmography

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Credit
No Score Yet 71% A Cinderella Story: Starstruck Director,
Screenwriter
- 2021
No Score Yet 40% A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish Director,
Screenwriter
- 2019
No Score Yet 62% Blurt Director - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Inside Voice Director - 2018
No Score Yet 58% A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits Director - 2016
No Score Yet 62% A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song Executive Producer - 2011
No Score Yet 74% Another Cinderella Story Producer - 2008
No Score Yet 50% Gleason June Taylor (Character) - 2002
23% 38% Showgirls Gay Carpenter (Character) $19.3M 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet California Casanova Laura (Character) - 1991