by David Yee
August 18, 2003
last updated March 3, 2004

Michelle Alicia Saram is a beautiful and talented model-singer-actress from Singapore. She was born on December 12, 1974, making her a Saggitarius and a Tiger. Michelle's father is Indian and her mother is Chinese. Because of her acting careers in Hong Kong and Taiwan she created a Chinese name (last name derived from her mother's maiden name) for herself: 鄭 雪 兒 (Zheng Xue Er). She weighs 47 kg (~104 lbs) and is 167 cm (~5'6") tall. Michelle is fluent in Mandarin and can speak Cantonese, but it seems that she prefers to communicate in English (she professes that she still thinks in English).

Michelle went to Katong Convent, Temasek Junior College (she was the top arts student of her year), and Nanyang Technological University where she received her degree of mass communications at the School of Communication Studies. She then went to work at the now-defunct Go Magazine as an intern where she was "discovered" as a model (picked unsuspectingly to appear on the cover of the May 1996 issue) and then signed up with the agency Elite Models. Her first big break came in 1997 when Aaron Kwok picked her to be in his music video that was part of Hong Kong Telecommunication Network's TVC 'One 2 Free' advertising campaign. Michelle then went on to star in the series "Threshold of An Era" with Luis Koo, and had major roles in the movies "Bullets Over Summer" (1999) and "Skyline Cruisers" (2000), where she had to dye her hair orange. In 2000 she released her first Mandarin solo album titled Upfront. In 2001 Michelle was sued by her Taiwanese management company for breach of contract. The case was settled and she was back at it in 2002, now with Artiste Networks (a subsidiary of Hype Records) as her managing agency. She starred in the serial drama "Fantasy" as a blind and talented singer. She then, as most people know, landed the role of Ye Sha in "Meteor Garden II". In 2003 Michelle is has completed production on the drama "Baby Boom" (she plays a working woman). She is completing shooting on "To Mom with Love" (she plays a swimming and diving instructor). In early March of 2004 Michelle will star filiming for a new drama called "City of Sky" where she will co-star with F4 member Ken Zhu. Currently Michelle is the spokesperson for the following endorsements for 2003-2005: