Michelle Jacqueline Krusiec (born Ya-Huei Yang; ; October 2, 1974) is an American actress, writer and producer. Early life Krusiec was born in 1974 in Taiwan. She was adopted at age five and raised in America by her father's elder sister, who had married a Polish American. Krusiec's adoptive father renamed her Michelle Jacqueline, because he wanted her to have a French name. Krusiec studied English and theater at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, graduating with a B.A. in 1996. She also studied Shakespeare and women's literature at the University of Oxford on a scholarship. Career Television and voicework Krusiec was recruited to be one of six globe-trotting travel reporters for the Discovery Channel series Travelers in 1996. Along with Barbara Alvarez, Robin Kipp, Pearce Bunting, Patrick Michael, Foster Soloman, and later Lisa Clark, she traveled to over 50 different locations on the show. Krusiec played the 18-year-old Molly O'Brien in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Time's Orphan". She co-starred in the NBC Saturday morning sitcom One World and played the role of Exquisite Woo on Popular. She played Mei-Ling Hwa Darling, one of the Darling family's daughters-in-law, in ABC's dramedy, Dirty Sexy Money. She appeared in The Mind of the Married Man as Sachiko, a massage parlor employee. She had a recurring role as "Nadine Park" on Season 4 of Fox's Fringe, and has also appeared on TV shows such as NBC's Community as "Wu Mei", a love interest of Chevy Chase's character, Pierce Hawthorne, General Hospital as Attorney Grace Yang, The Secret Life of the American Teenager as Emily, Touch as Lanny Cheong, Nip/Tuck as Mei, CSI: Miami as Susan Lee, CSI: NY as Lisa Kim, NCIS, Grey's Anatomy, Weeds, Without a Trace, Cold Case as Kara, Monk as Maria, ER as Tong-Ye, and Titus as recurring character Nancy. In 2020, Krusiec played Anna May Wong in Ryan Murphy's Netflix series, Hollywood. Krusiec provided various voices for multiple episodes of Seth MacFarlane's animated series American Dad!. Film Krusiec was a Best Actress nominee in the Golden Horse Film Festival for her performance in a U.S. independent film Saving Face (2005), written and directed by Alice Wu, in which she plays a Chinese American surgeon named Wilhelmina Pang ("Wil") juggling the demands of her girlfriend, Vivian Shing (played by Lynn Chen) and pregnant mother (played by Joan Chen). Krusiec appeared in a number of feature films