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Michelle Cameron (born November 14, 1991) is an American stage and screen actor best known for her stage role as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Violet in the film Those Who Wander and April in the film Kensho at the Bedfellow.

Early Life

Cameron was born Michelle Mary Cecelia Berry  in Bellingham, Washington on November 14, 1991, the daughter of Eydie (nee Bourgeois) and David Berry. She completed her K-12 education in the Blaine, WA School District.

Career

In 2010 Cameron received a scholarship to attend the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where she studied musical theater in the New Studio on Broadway. She graduated from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in 2013 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama. She was awarded the Tisch School of the Arts, Artist and Scholar Award in 2013. The same year Cameron studied on-screen acting at Stonestreet Studios whose alumni include James Earl Jones, Susan Sarandon, Johnny Depp and Mike Myers. In the summer of 2013 Cameron performed at the Town Hall (New York) in Broadway Rising Stars, a national showcase for the top graduating Musical Theater students in the United States. In June 2013 Cameron played the role of Violet, a drug dealer's girlfriend opposite Bonnie Wright's character Zoe in the film Those Who Wander. In Kensho at the Bedfellow which is pre-production she plays the role of April, the deceased sister of protagonist Dan Bender played by Brad Raider.