Michelle graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2010 and has since worked extensively in Theatre, TV and Film. Michelle’s theatre credits include Torch the Place, An Ideal Husband (Melbourne Theatre Company); On The Beach, Banging Denmark, How to Rule the World, Top Girls and Power Plays (Sydney Theatre Company), The Feather in the Web and The Lysicrates Prize (Griffin Theatre Company); Play School Live (ABC); The Laramie Project (STC Education); The Plant and Seminar (Ensemble Theatre); Far Away (Black Swan Theatre Co) and as the guest star alongside John Cleese in the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival.

Michelle was most recently seen on 9 Network’s After the Verdict and ABC’s The Newsreader for which she received two AACTA nominations for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Drama. Michelle’s other television credits include The Secret She Keeps, Harrow, Black Comedy, Nursery Rhyme News Time, Science Time, Get Krack!n, Top of the Lake: China Girl, Utopia, Doctor Doctor, Live from Planet Earth, Big Ted’s Big Adventure and Jay’s Jungle. Michelle is also a regular presenter on Play School and ABC KIDS Listen’s Story Salad. Michelle’s film credits include Ivan Sen’s Goldstone and the short film Beyond the Bubble selected for the Sydney Film Festival 2017.

For her performance in The Feather in the Web, Michelle was nominated for Best Female Actress in a Mainstage Production at the Sydney Theatre Awards and was the recipient of the 2013 Mike Walsh Fellowship. In 2016 Michelle received the Equity Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for Utopia and in 2022 the Equity Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for The Newsreader. In 2022 Michelle was also awarded a CGA Rising Star.

Michelle is an emerging writer for television and stage. Presently, she holds a residency at Griffin Theatre Company's studio program. She is currently developing her own stage work as a playwright. Michelle also works as a Cultural Consultant on The Newsreader ABC. She has written for the series Born to Spy for ABC ME, Buster Productions and Aquarius Films and The Wonder Gang for ABC Kids. Michelle’s play Where We Love is Home was selected for Sydney Theatre Company’s Rough Draft program.

In 2023, Michelle was appointed as a Commonwealth representative on the board of the Australian Children's Television Foundation.