Personal Info
Birth date
1984-04-22 (41 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK
Also known as
-Michelle Ryan
Biography
Michelle Claire Ryan (born 22 April 1984) is an English actress.She is known for portraying the role of Zoe Slater on the BBC soap opera EastEnders. In 2007, she starred in the short lived revival of the American television series Bionic Woman. She has appeared as the wicked sorceress Nimueh in the 2008 BBC TV series Merlin, and as Lady Christina de Souza in the 2009 episode of Doctor Who.
Filmography
Death in Paradise
7.5
Overview:
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.EastEnders
4.1
Overview:
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.The One Show
4.6
Overview:
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.The View
4.298
Overview:
ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.Merlin
7.829
Overview:
The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.GMTV
5.6
Overview:
GMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end. The final edition of GMTV was broadcast on 3 September 2010.Covert Affairs
6.873
Overview:
A young CIA operative, Annie Walker, is mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as a field operative. While Annie believes she's been promoted for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that her CIA bosses are really after. Auggie Anderson is a CIA military intelligence agent who was blinded while on assignment and is Annie's guide in this world of bureaucracy, excitement and intrigue.The Borgias
7.571
Overview:
Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.Cockneys vs Zombies
5.698
Overview:
A group of Cockneys arm themselves to rescue their elderly relative and his retirement home friends who are trapped and fighting off a zombie attack during a zombie apocalypse in the East End of London.Today
5.8
Overview:
Today is a daily American morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and is the fifth-longest running American television series. Originally a two-hour program on weekdays, it expanded to Sundays in 1987 and Saturdays in 1992. The weekday broadcast expanded to three hours in 2000, and to four hours in 2007. Today's dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until the late 1980s, when it was overtaken by ABC's Good Morning America. Today retook the Nielsen ratings lead the week of December 11, 1995, and held onto that position for 852 consecutive weeks until the week of April 9, 2012, when it was beaten by Good Morning America yet again. In 2002, Today was ranked #17 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest Television Shows of All Time.Cashback
6.96
Overview:
After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.The Worst Witch
7.328
Overview:
Mildred Hubble is a young witch attending Cackles Academy. She's called the "Worst Witch" because she's always caught getting into trouble.Metal Hurlant Chronicles
6.1
Overview:
Metal Hurlant Chronicles is inspired by the popular comics anthology Métal Hurlant, which in turn inspired the well known fantasy magazine Heavy Metal. Each episode takes place on a different planet - fantastical in its own way - with the common thread between stories being a traveling asteroid that impacts the lives of all it encounters.The Last Photograph
6.1
Overview:
A random act of theft has put Tom Hammond's life into a tailspin. Stolen from his bookshop is Tom's most treasured possession, a photograph of him with his son Luke...their last moment of shared happiness. The Last Photograph is set between London in 2002, and a dark night in 1988 when Pan Am 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie.Finding My Voice
NYR
Overview:
When life crumbles around Melanie and her family, it's going to take strength, resilience and the dream of a better life overcome what lies ahead.Bionic Woman
6.336
Overview:
Jaime Sommers is saved from death after receiving experimental medical implants. While adjusting to her new bionic powers and raising a rebellious younger sister, Jaime agrees to work for the Berkut Group, a quasi-governmental private organisation that performed her surgery.Cashback
7.023
Overview:
Ben is an art college student in London, whose imagination runs wild as he works the late-night shift at the local supermarket. What do he and his colleagues do to pass the long, endless hours of the night?Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
7.5
Overview:
A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits.Frankenstein: Legacy
NYR
Overview:
Frankenstein’s secrets did not die with him. As graves are torn up and patience disappear from asylum, William Browning sets out to find who stole his father’s body - and finds horrors close to home as his mother descends into madness.Cleanskin
5.6
Overview:
While working undercover as a bodyguard to arms dealer Harry, former-soldier-turned-secret-service-agent Ewan survives a bloody shootout with a member of an Islamic terrorist cell who steals Harry's briefcase full of Semtex explosives and escapes. Ewan's spymasters task Ewan with hunting down the cell members and retrieving the briefcase.Mansfield Park
6.1
Overview:
In Mansfield Park, poverty-stricken Fanny Price is sent away to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors, learning about the sexual politics of high society along the way.Love's Kitchen
5.3
Overview:
Rob Haley, an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a run-down country pub into a gourmet restaurant. His food catches the eye - and taste buds - of beautiful American food critic Kate Templeton and they soon both write a recipe for love that leaves both their hearts - and their stomachs - in full.One Night in Emergency
8
Overview:
Over the course of one night, a man struggles to find his wife in the wards of an inner-city hospital. Journeying through the corridors he meets a series of strange people.Jekyll
7.6
Overview:
Tom Jackman is learning to cope with his alter ego, the dark and mysterious Hyde, who threatens his life and family. They also have to live in the same body while on the run from a mysterious organization that is hunting them.Andron
3.8
Overview:
A group of people are plunged into a dark, claustrophobic maze, where they must fight to survive, as the outside world watches.I Want Candy
5.2
Overview:
Two hopeful lads from Leatherhead trying to break into the movies stumble upon the opportunity of a lifetime. Frustrated by their arty film teacher, wannabe producer Joe and his talented but neurotic director friend Baggy head to London to sell what they know is a script made of gold.4.3.2.1
5.5
Overview:
Jo is chained down in a dead end supermarket job while all her friends are all out on their own separate adventures. But a chance encounter with some diamond thieves sends their separate worlds on a collision course with not only each other, but fate itself.The Justin Lee Collins Show
6.5
Overview:
The Justin Lee Collins Show is a British television chat show presented by Justin Lee Collins that aired on ITV2 between 19 March 2009 and 21 May 2009. Collins has a small band on the show and a continuing theme is to mention Labi Siffre as part of a joke. The series ended after one series after Collins signed a two-year deal with Channel 5.Eastenders: The Slaters In Detention
6
Overview:
They have always been trouble and now they are in trouble. When three generations of the Slaters - Kat, Little Mo, Lynn, Zoe and Mo - go up town, it could only really end with a night in a police cell. But straight out of the disco, the fiery Slater girls - dressed in school uniforms - are far too hot for the local constabulary to handle. With time on their hands they have an opportunity to look back on their lives; Mo's bust-ups, Lynn's altercations at the altar, Kat's confrontation with her past, Little Mo's nightmare with evil Trevor and a cauldron of steamy romances. When not flirting with the night sergeant, they give the inside story on the Slater highs and lows; the passion, the heartbreak, the fights and laughter of a family that doesn't know the meaning of the phrase "The quiet life."Dark Stories to Survive the Night
3.8
Overview:
What if Demons, the Living Dead, Evil Dolls, Djinn and other Extra-terrestrial creatures came to haunt our apartments, houses, cafes, museums and other places of daily life? What would we do? How would we react? DARK STORIES tells five tales of gripping terror in a fantastic anthology where horror, suspense and humour intertwine with stark reality to make us shiver with fear! Join us for a Ghoul’s Feast, the Last Judgment before the impending Apocalypse, a surprise package from the deliveryman, a forensic scientist confronted by his zombie victim and the worst Moroccan monster nightmare.Acting
2025Frankenstein: Legacy as Lady Charlotte
2025Finding My Voice as Lisa Kendall
2019Dark Stories to Survive the Night as Carrie
2019Dark Stories (1 Episode) as Carrie
2019Somnium as Joan Kepler
2018The Best of EastEnders as Zoe Slater (archive footage)
2017Black Sand: A Sandman Story as Death
2017The Last Photograph as Maryam
2015Andron as Elanor
2013Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty as Self
2012Metal Hurlant Chronicles (7 Episodes) as Jennifer
2012Cockneys vs Zombies as Katy
2012The Man Inside as Alexia Sinclair
2012Cleanskin as Emma
2011Death in Paradise (1 Episode) as Lexi
2011Love's Kitchen as Shauna
2011The Borgias (1 Episode) as Unknown
2011Girl Walks Into a Bar as Loretta
2010Covert Affairs (1 Episode) as Helen Hanson
2010Huge as Cindy
20104.3.2.1 as Kelly
2010One Night in Emergency as Unknown
2009Mister Eleven (2 Episodes) as Saz Paley
2009Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead as Christina
2009The Justin Lee Collins Show (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2008Flick as Sandra Martin
2008Merlin (4 Episodes) as Nimueh
2007Bionic Woman (8 Episodes) as Jaime Sommers
2007Jekyll (6 Episodes) as Katherine Reimer
2007I Want Candy as Lila Owens
2007Mansfield Park as Maria Bertram
2007Mr. Bean's Wedding as Kate
2007Cashback as Suzy
2006The One Show (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2004Cashback as Suzy (uncredited)
2003Eastenders: The Slaters In Detention as Zoe Slater
1998The Worst Witch (1 Episode) as Dolores
1997The View (1 Episode) as Self
1993GMTV (1 Episode) as Self
1985EastEnders (3338 Episodes) as Zoe Slater
1952Today (1 Episode) as Self