Michele Lee

In 2004, she returned to feature films in the role of Ben Stiller's mother in Along Came Polly. Drugs and foul play were ruled out. 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. The cause of death was "acute cardiac dysfunction, nontraumatic systemic and spontaneous intraventricular hemorrhage and hemorrhage in the brain", as well as an enlarged heart. Lee refused and appeared in all 19 episodes that season (doing her extra four for union scale). She was 54. 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. She died, unexpectedly, in Los Angeles, California.

As the show moved into the 1990s, Knots Landing's popularity waned. Her first film was Godspell in 1973. Her later work emphasized her acting over her singing abilities. As one of the leads, Lee became very popular with fans, winning the Soap Opera Digest Award for Lead Actress five times. She taught high school English briefly in Joliet, while studying theatre and dance at the University of Illinois, then, in 1971, moved to New York City where she began a prolific theater career, appearing initially in musicals such as Godspell, The Night that Made America Famous, The Magic Show, Working, and Tintypes. 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. She was born Cherlynne Richmond in Joliet, Illinois, and obtained a degree in teaching. In 1976, her mother died, and she stopped acting for years. Lynne Thigpen (December 22, 1948 - March 12, 2003) was an American actress.

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