Michele Lee

In 2004, she returned to feature films in the role of Ben Stiller's mother in Along Came Polly. Mark listened, liked the songs and said yes. Since the cancellation of Knots Landing in 1993, Lee has appeared in many made-for-TV movies, as well as the Knots Landing reunion special, Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac. After a gig in Lund, Sweden, Nina gave Mark a cassette of all the old A Camp songs. When they met again during the recording of his most recent album, Nina mustered the courage to invite him to produce her project. Lee refused and appeared in all 19 episodes that season (doing her extra four for union scale). Nina had been a long-time fan of Sparklehorse and has referred to them as "the best I've ever heard". The big budget that the series once had was trimmed, and in the final season, the higher paid cast members were asked to appear in only 15 of the season's 19 episodes, as the budget constraints had become so much that the production company couldn't pay them anymore. In doing so he also contributed some new songs to the album.

As the show moved into the 1990s, Knots Landing's popularity waned. The debut was recorded once with Niclas Frisk of Atomic Swing before she teamed up with Mark to rerecord it. As one of the leads, Lee became very popular with fans, winning the Soap Opera Digest Award for Lead Actress five times. A Camp's self-titled debut album released the singles "I Can Buy You" and "Song For The Leftovers." Interestingly enough, Nina's country-inspired outing seems to have also inspired The Cardigans most recent album, Long Gone Before Daylight which was released in the UK in the summer of 2003 and was released in May 2004 in the US. In 1979, she accepted an acting job after a three-year sabbatical, a role for a series called Knots Landing, a spinoff of Dallas. The first episodes of the series were not high-rated and cancellation was rumored, but the network continued to support it and eventually the show took off. This time, however, Persson opted for a country music style more akin to the recent popularity of alt-country in the US. In 1976, her mother died, and she stopped acting for years. While Gran Turismo may have been darker musically, A Camp reflects Persson's gifts for clever juxtaposition of somber lyrics with more upbeat music.

She worked infrequently until accepting a role on Broadway in Seesaw, which netted her a Tony Award nomination in 1974. A Camp was formed during The Cardigans' break after several years of touring and recording albums, the last of which was, at the time, Gran Turismo. The 1970s were especially trying on Michele, as her father died in 1970. A Camp is the solo side project of Nina Persson, vocalist for the popular Swedish indie/pop band The Cardigans, who worked alongside Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, who also produced it. She first became known for her saccharine sweet roles in the films How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967), The Love Bug (1968), and The Comic (1969). Michele Lee (born Michelle Lee Dusick on June 24, 1942 in Los Angeles) is an American actress, most known for her role as Karen Fairgate MacKenzie on the 1980s soap opera Knots Landing.