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Staying Blonde
Michelle’s publication and the main body of her work: travel guides, family stories, recipes, lifestyle writing, and practical advice for making more of the moments that matter.
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Michelle Tucker.
Writer photographer broadcast journalist actor
Twenty-five years of telling stories — from the anchor desk to independent film to the family travel writing and photography she publishes today at Staying Blonde.
One story after another.
Always staying blonde.
01 / About
A storyteller, in every medium she can get her hands on.
Michelle Tucker has spent her working life telling other people’s stories and, eventually, her own. She studied journalism at Indiana University and went to the anchor desk, working in television news in Minnesota and then in Los Angeles as a host and reporter.
In Los Angeles the storytelling moved in front of a different kind of camera. She built a body of work in independent film and television — leading roles in several features, appearances on network series — and trained in Meisner technique at Playhouse West and with teachers in Los Angeles and Minneapolis.
Then came photography and travel. She published her first travel writing in 2007, filed from a seventeen-day journey through Vietnam, and spent years shooting portrait, family, and travel work under her own name.
Today she is the founder of Staying Blonde, where all of it converges: she reports the story, writes it, shoots it, and puts herself on camera. She writes about family travel, food, motherhood, lifestyle, dyslexia, special needs, and finding humor in everyday life — from the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her husband and their two children.
She grew up in Highland, Indiana. This site is the official professional home for Michelle Tucker — the authoritative source for her biography, her credits, and the online profiles that genuinely belong to her.
02 / Work today
Follow the threads.
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Family Travel
Travel writing built around shared experience and realistic planning — where to go with children in tow, what it actually takes to get there, and what makes a trip worth the effort. She has been publishing travel writing since 2007.
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Photography & Video
Michelle shoots the photography and video that runs alongside her writing, drawing on years of portrait, family, and travel work and on her original training in front of and behind a broadcast camera.
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Food & Everyday Life
Recipes, seasonal cooking, and the small domestic details — home, garden, style, holidays — that make an ordinary week feel like something.
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03 / Broadcast
The anchor desk.
Michelle trained as a journalist at Indiana University and began her career in television news, working on air as an anchor, host, and reporter in Minnesota and Los Angeles.
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Television news anchorAnchor Twin Cities, Minnesota
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HCTVHost and reporter Los Angeles
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Insight 7Host NDCTV
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Out and AboutHost NDCTV
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FMITVReporter
Studied journalism at Indiana University, Bloomington.
04 / Acting
On screen and on stage.
Michelle’s screen work spans independent feature film and network television, with earlier work in theatre.
Film
- Roadie 2004Supporting dir. Larry Milburn
- Witness 2 Murder 2004Starring Marlo Productions
- The Innocents 1999Supporting dir. Katherine Griffin
- Staring at Headlights 1999Supporting Lucidus Productions
- Angst 1998Film
- Better TomorrowsStarring dir. Simon Valderez
- Digging AshleyStarring Last House Productions
- The Mating CallStarring dir. Shawn Rozsa
- Catalog BrideSupporting dir. Pentipa Vanich
- Thief of SoulsSupporting dir. Richard Magram
Television
- Talkshow with Spike Feresten 2006Television
- Early EditionCo-star CBS
- Girls Behaving BadlyCo-star Oxygen Network
Theatre
- The Power and the GloryInez Wide Variety Theatre
Training
- Playhouse WestMeisner technique North Hollywood, California
- Robert D’AvansoScene study and cold reading North Hollywood, California
- Sandra K. HornerMeisner, Method, and Lewis technique Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Indiana UniversityActing I and II Bloomington, Indiana
The profile linked below is the only IMDb page that represents Michelle Tucker’s work.
View official IMDb profile05 / Press
In print.
“Michelle is one of those rare finds. She has it all going for her: looks, personality and incredible talent.”
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Highland Native Gets Break In Indie Films 2003By Larry McCarthy The Times 4 May 2003
06 / Advocacy
Dyslexia & special needs.
A significant part of Michelle’s writing is devoted to dyslexia and special needs — what it looks like inside a family, how it reshapes school, and what parents wish someone had told them earlier.
She writes about it plainly and without euphemism, because clear first-hand information is what families searching at midnight are actually looking for.
07 / Collaborate
Work with Michelle.
Michelle partners with brands through Staying Blonde on work that fits what she already covers: family travel and destinations, food and recipes, home and garden, family life, and lifestyle. Collaborations can include original written features, photography, video, recipe development, on-camera work, and social content.
For brand partnerships, press inquiries, or anything else, email is the best way to reach her.