Michelle Giroux is a Canadian stage actress whose credits include numerous productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival over nine seasons.

Her featured roles include the 1998 production of The Miser

The Miser

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, which also played at the New York City Center

New York City Center

New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...

, Lady Teazle in a 2001 production of The School for Scandal

The School for Scandal

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, which went on to play at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Chicago Shakespeare Theater is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Its more than six hundred annual performances performed 48 weeks of the year include its critically acclaimed Shakespeare series, its World's Stage touring productions, and youth...

, a 2003 production of Noel Coward

Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...

's Present Laughter

Present Laughter

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, a 2005 production of The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

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, as well as Julia in a 2007 production of Edward Albee

Edward Albee

Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , and a rewrite of the screenplay for the unsuccessful musical version of Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's . His works are considered well-crafted, often...

's A Delicate Balance.

Called "one of the best young talents at Stratford," Giroux had been accepted to the Stratford company immediately upon graduation from the National Theatre School of Canada

National Theatre School of Canada

The National Theatre School of Canada is a private college located in Montreal, Quebec.Established in Montreal in 1960, the National Theatre School of Canada offers professional training in English and French in a setting that unites all the theatre arts: acting, playwriting, directing, set and...

.

In his book, Romancing the Bard: Stratford at Fifty, Martin Hunter writes:
Her non-Stratford stage credits include starring in Claudia Dey

Claudia Dey

Claudia Dey is a Canadian writer. She was born in Toronto, Ontario. She studied English Literature at McGill University and playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada.Dey's first novel, Stunt, was published by Coach House Books...

's Trout Stanley at the Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre is a theatre in Toronto, Ontario, founded as Factory Theatre Lab in 1970 by Ken Gass and Frank Trotz.Factory was the first theatre to announce that it would exclusively produce Canadian plays, but it soon became a widely emulated policy by other theatre companies...

. Giroux also starred in the Toronto Fringe Festival

Toronto Fringe Festival

The Toronto Fringe Festival is an annual theatre festival, featuring uncensored plays by unknown or well-known artists, taking place in the theatres of Toronto. Several productions originally mounted at the Fringe have later been remounted for larger audiences, including the Tony Award-winning...

 production of Kate Hewlett

Kate Hewlett

Katherine Emily "Kate" Hewlett is a Canadian actress, writer and songwriter.-Biography:Hewlett was born in Toronto, Ontario. Her brother is actor David Hewlett, who portrayed Rodney McKay in Stargate Atlantis who was also her brother on-screen. Kate guest-starred as McKay's sister Jeannie in four...

's Humans Anonymous.

Her most recent credits include the 2009 production of Karoline Leach

Karoline Leach

Karoline Leach is a British playwright and author, best known for her book In the Shadow of the Dreamchild , which re-examines the life of Lewis Carroll , the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...

's Tryst

Tryst (drama)

Tryst had its debut on April 6, 2006 at the Promenade Theatre in New York.The play, by British playwright Karoline Leach, has been described as a "subversion of Edwardian melodrama", in which the stereotypical actions and responses of the characters are used to ask usually unasked questions about...

at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts

Segal Centre for Performing Arts

Segal Centre for Performing Arts is a Canadian theatre located in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in the city of Montreal, Quebec. The building that houses the theatre was designed by Montreal-architect Phyllis Lambert. It is home to the Segal Theatre, the Academy of Performing...

 in Montreal

Montreal

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, and a 2011 adaptation of The Misanthrope

The Misanthrope

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at the Tarragon Theatre

Tarragon Theatre

The Tarragon Theatre is a theatre in Toronto, Canada, and one of the main centers for contemporary playwriting in the country. Located near Casa Loma, the theatre was founded by Bill and Jane Glassco in 1970. Bill was the Artistic Director from 1971 to 1982. In 1982, Urjo Kareda took over as...

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Personal life

A resident of Toronto, she married former Stratford colleague Graham Abbey

Graham Abbey

Graham Abbey in Toronto, Ontario is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.- History :...

in August 2008.