About… This blog follows the careers of the cast of Cloud 9's teen drama series The Tribe. The series was filmed in New Zealand in 1998 to 2004 and had a spin-off series The New Tomorrow. More info about this blog can be found here. |
Check out these lovely, recent, agency/talent photos of the beautifully, talented, actress that is Michelle Ang. They appeared on her IMDB profile…
Michelle Ang played Tai-San in The Tribe series 1-4, she went on to star in the final episodes of Xena The Warrior Princess and then moved to Australia when she starred in the soap Neighbours as Lori Lee. She has also portrayed the character Tracy Hong in Outrageous Fortune and Lily Zee in American teen drama South Of Nowhere. Michelle also has roles in the forthcoming films The Beaver, Big Momma’s House 3 – Like Father, Like Son and Girl Meets Boy.
The photos were taken by Michelle’s boyfriend Sam Nixon, a photographer. You can read about them both in a previously posted interview with Michelle Ang.
There is a lovely interview with Michelle Ang and Roseanne Liang speaking about the up-coming movie Girl Meets Boy. The interview by Charles Chan originally featured in The Star Online (it is also pasted below).
| Michelle talks about education, her recent film and TV projects, her heritage and life in general. When she’s not acting, Michelle also works in the production side of the industry… |
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Key quotes:
There were times when she hit rock-bottom and she told her Kiwi boyfriend: “This is it. I have had enough. I quit. I am wasting my life.”
“I want to play many roles and different characters, not just appear in comedies and martial arts films,” says Ang who works in production on TV and commercial shoots to pay the bills when not acting.
“This industry is tough, somehow you have to find the faith and push past the doubts”
Full article/interview is below… This post has been backdated. Continue reading…
Michelle Ang is co-starring in the third installment of Martin Lawrence’s comedy series Big Momma’s House – Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son. Michelle Ang will be playing a student in the movie, and it looks like it will be a main role – this is a huge hollywood project, it looks like Michelle is doing great in the States.
According to ComingSoon.net the film has already begun filming in Atlanta. The synopsis is as follows: “In the new film, Big Momma (Lawrence) and Charmaine (Brandon T. Jackson) go undercover at an all-girls performing-arts school to unmask a murderer. Love will play Kurtis Kool, a school security guard and former Run-D.M.C. roadie who becomes smitten with Big Momma… [Michelle] Ang will play a student at the school who befriends Jackson’s character”.
This article has been back dated.
Michelle Ang (aka The Tribe’s Tai-San) will be taking on the lead role in Roseanne Liang’s first feature film, titled Girl Meets Boy (it’s the working title so the name may change!).
Girl Meets Boy is “the contemporary story of Chinese New Zealand-born over-achiever Emily Chu, raised to believe she can get anything she puts her mind to. Even if ‘anything’ is at odds with her traditional Hong Kong born parents’ wish for her to become a doctor like her two older sisters. Everything is coming up roses – until she meets James, a European New Zealander, and accidentally falls in love with him. But if her father finds out, she will face disownment”.
Definitely sounds interesting! The press release (dated February) from South Pacific Pictures is below. The film is due to be released in 2011. Michelle Ang has previously worked with Roseanne Liang on the short film Take 3. Michelle is also appearing in the ‘directed by Jodie Foster’ movie The Beaver, it stars Mel Gibson and will be released this year.
With thanks to Ross for the info on Michelle’s new film. Hey if you have any news/cast goss you’d like up, do please e-mail me at clare@tribeheaven.co.uk – thanks! Images from South Pacific Pictures and Outrageous Fortune. Continue reading…
Michelle Ang (who played Tai-San in The Tribe), in an article in New Zealand’s Woman’s Weekly, openly talks about suffering from endometriosis. The article (pasted below) details the journey it took for Michelle to discover she was suffering from endometriosis as well as about talking about living with her boyfriend, photographer, Sam Nixon in New York.
This post has been back dated, with thanks to Jebrill of Tribe-Cast.com for the article.
You may also be aware that Michelle’s co-star in William Shatner’s Twist In The Tale (The Green Dress), Jessie Gurunathan (also played farm girl Dawn in The Tribe) was also diagnosed with endometriosis. It can be more common than it is thought to be.
Continue reading…
 Great news for Michelle Ang fans!
According to her talent agency, Karen Kay, Michelle has landed a role in the movie The Beaver, currently shooting in New York. In the movie, Michelle plays a Japanese translator. Jodie Foster stars and directs the movie and Mel Gibson plays the lead role, Walter Black. The movie is about Walter and his beaver hand puppet… Hmm. According to the IMDB, the movie is set for a 2011 release.
<insert beaver jokes here> ; )
A sweet pic of Michelle Ang (The Tribe’s Tai-San, Neighbour’s Lori Lee, Xena’s Akemi, South Of Nowhere’s Lily Zee, Outrageous Fortune’s Tracy Hong – to name a few of her well known characters!) has appeared on crude boy’s website Street Boner’s/TV Carnage. They comment on her outfit, calling it shitty, but hey it looks like Michelle’s chilling in her down time, let the girl be!
I spotted the news originally on the Michelle Ang fansite (check it out!). This post has been backdated.
Just a quick edit, Michelle Ang is wearing an Erykah Badu – {2008 AD} – ‘The Vortex Tour’ T-Shirt. You can check the design out on this poster image here.
The 2008 short film Take 3 (aka Auditions I Have Known) by director Roseanne Liang has had an excerpt put online, check it out below. It stars Michelle Ang (Tribe’s Tai-San / Neighbours’ Lori Lee / Xena’s Akemi) as the character Melanie Shum…
The rest of the cast are as follows: Li Ming Hu as Lisa Fong, Katlyn Wong as Kaylee Hing, Justine Hunter as Casting Director (Doctor), Michael Lowe as Casting Director (Ninja), Toby Sharpe as Casting Director (Schoolgirl) and Richard Thompson as Casting Director (Bootygirls). The short follows three asian girls on a series of auditions. This post has been back dated.
 Previously I mentioned Michelle Ang was in the TVNZ series The Sitting where artist Stephen Martyn Welch paints famous New Zealanders. Artwork featured in the TV series is now on display at The New Zealand Portrait Gallery, I’ve found a pic featuring Michelle’s portrait and attached it.
Full details of the event are as follows: NZ Portrait Gallery, Shed 11, Wellington Waterfront 18 December 2008 to 1 February 2009 10.30am – 4.30pm. Running in conjunction with TVNZ6, SOCA gallery and Top Shelf Productions, Queen’s Wharf, Wellington Waterfront. Enquires (04) 4728874
I’ve found you can view the whole series on YouTube, the first video is below…
Tribe cast members to feature in it are: Fleur Saville (Eve Baxter), James Napier (Jared Preston), Michelle Ang (Masako) and David Taylor (Corban). James and Fleur are in episode one above. Michelle Ang and David Taylor (Sasha in The Tribe) both feature in this episode here. Check it out, Michelle can first be seen in the TV screen and check out David’s cool mohawk! In that vid you’ll also spot Jay Bunyan (he was a Blue in series 4 of The Tribe) and Todd Emerson (who was Beanie in Atlantis High).
You can also buy Being Eve as a 3 disc dvd set. Perfect for your Tribe cast fix at Mighty Ape… You may need a multi-region dvd player though!
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New Tomorrow 
"Saaay whaaaat?"... The Tribe spin-off series The New Tomorrow is currently showing on channel Five in the UK around 5:00am in the morning!
Check out: TVguide.co.uk.
DVD Deal… Miriama Smith (The Tribe's Moz), Tom Hern and James Napier (Tecno boy's Ram and Jay) have lead roles in Dino Thunder. The series also guest stars Dwayne Cameron (Bray) and Antonia Prebble (Trudy). Own the complete series now in this 7 disk DVD set!
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