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Kristian Michaels (born Christopher Columbus Michaels, July 6, 1970) is a Canadian-American voice actress and puppeteer. She has voiced women, men, and children due to her versatile vocal range.

Career

For several years beginning in the mid-1990s, Kristian worked on several Muppets projects - as a writer (co-writing Journey to Eagle Rock and episodes of Eagle Rock), as a puppeteer (she was an ensemble Muppeteer for Sesame Park and Wacky Works), and doing photo puppet work for several Muppets books. She was the first transgender Muppeteer. She also performed a walk-around version of Louis the otter in Sesame Park Live: When I Grow Up and Sesame Park Live: 1-2-3 Imagine! and walk-arounds of Zoe and Rosita at Ontario's Playland. She was sometimes referred to in her Muppets works as "Crystal Michaels", her post-transition real name.

She was Creative Director for Latikuu Edacra Entertainment North America from 2001-2005.

Kristian has also worked as a voice artist with the successful Toronto-based animation firm Nelvana, lending her voice to Squeak! The Mouse Show, Redwall: The Movie and other projects.

Personal Life

Kristian was born in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. to a Canadian father of Czech origin and American mother. She was born Christopher Columbus Michaels (named after the explorer) and was assigned male at birth. Her father, at the time a historian at Auvray College, had been rescued in the Kindertransport and was adopted by a Canadian couple from Brandon, Manitoba. Kristian came out as transgender to her parents on her 16th birthday.

Kristian graduated from Crestwood Secondary School in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada in 1989 under the name of "Chris Michaels", and was her class' valedictorian. She studied at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Visual artist and cultural advisor Walton Michaels is her older brother.

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 She was Creative Director for [[Latikuu Edacra Entertainment North America]] from 2001-2005.
-Kristian also worked as a voice artist with the successful {{W|Toronto}}-based animation firm {{W|Nelvana}}, lending her voice to ''[[Squeak! The Mouse Show]]'', ''[[Redwall: The Movie]]'' and other projects.
+Kristian has also worked as a voice artist with the successful {{W|Toronto}}-based animation firm {{W|Nelvana}}, lending her voice to ''[[Squeak! The Mouse Show]]'', ''[[Redwall: The Movie]]'' and other projects.
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