- She is a poet and singer-songwriter.
- A French film director was inspired by her resemblance to Ava Gardner in the 1954 movie, The Barefoot Contessa (1954) and asked her to star in a music video in which this resemblance and her talent as a dancer would be on display. However, while she was on location in Africa for Glamour Magazine, her agency turned that role down due to a scheduling conflict.
- Her name is the answer to the question: "Who is the woman on the train?" which was repeatedly asked by viewers after the release of the iconic black and white video for the song, First We Take Manhattan, by the legendary Leonard Cohen. It was filmed at a train station and on the beach in Normandy, France, and became one of the most famous music videos of his extraordinary career.
- She began her acting career in Canada, where her agents were frequently told she was too beautiful to cast in the roles that were available there. She therefore accepted the offer to model in Paris and continued her acting career in France.
- For several of her acting roles there was a concerted effort in hair, make-up and wardrobe, to mask her beauty.
- Her first language is English, and she also speaks Dutch and French.
- When she was eighteen years old, she starred in a Japanese television commercial that was filmed on a lake in India, surrounded by the Himalayas.
- While modeling in Paris, she lived in an apartment on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, also known as "the most beautiful avenue in the world".
- She attended the first Genie Awards Ceremony (also known as the Canadian Oscars) to be broadcast from Montreal and presented in French, in support of a movie she starred in, The Date (1993), which was nominated.
- At the recommendation of a French doctor, she took some time off from modeling while she was ill. One week later, her Parisian agent told her that she had missed the cover of Spanish Vogue when she was recovering.
- She was asked to play the role of a woman who was cloned, and also the roles of her clones, for an American feature film. However, after reading the screenplay, she turned the offer down due to the dark nature of the story.
- As an actress, dancer and model, she starred in a fashion video when she was nineteen years old, which was shot on La Côte d'Azur and featured her dancing in different dresses by a French designer.
- She was offered the cover, and simultaneous exclusives (every fashion and beauty story inside the magazine) for issues of Brazilian Vogue and Elle. But upon learning that she would have to fly to Brazil for the shoots, she reluctantly turned these offers down due to scheduling conflicts and sheer exhaustion.
- In Barcelona she posed for a black-and-white spread in the inaugural issue of a Spanish magazine, which highlighted her mystical beauty and curvaceous figure, when she portrayed a mermaid who transforms into a human and emerges from the Mediterranean Sea, to fulfill her passionate love with a Spanish man awaiting her upon the shore.
- A movie and television producer discovered her at Le Palace, the iconic Paris nightclub (known for its celebrity patrons and as the French Studio 54), and after an audition the next day, cast her in the emotionally charged role of an American hitchhiker named Jenny, in Reunion (1988).
- She was asked to play a supermodel in a feature film by one of the major studios, but upon inquiring about her wardrobe fitting, she was informed that there was no need for a fitting, because the character essentially wore no clothes. She turned the role down.
- During a press conference at The Toronto International Film Festival, she explained how it was possible that she could look and sound so different in real life than her character did in the sequel to My American Cousin, which premiered there that week. People could not believe that she was the same person.
- Early in her career, she starred in stage productions of plays by two of America's great playwrights, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams.
- She has been photographed by the top photographers in the world, including David LaChapelle, Robert Erdmann and Mario Testino.
- After the filming of his video for First We Take Manhattan, with her as "The Woman on the Train", the great songwriter, Leonard Cohen, extended the invitation for her to sing with him on his world tour. Unfortunately, her previous commitments, along with other logistical obstacles, prevented this from coming to fruition.
- She wrote and recorded an album of songs in tribute to the mystical poet and novelist, Emily Brontë; her life, her work, and the enduring love of her characters, Heathcliff and Cathy.
- While composing by candlelight, as Emily Brontë, in the movie, The Liberation of Cathy (2007), it appears that she is writing backwards with her right hand. In fact, Michele Bardeaux is left-handed, and this dream-like effect was created because the scene was filmed through a mirror.
- After her heart-wrenching performance as a desolate teenager traveling across France, in Reunion (1988), she was set to return as a series regular when filming resumed in the coming months. But following the loss of financing from a major European backer, the high-budget prime-time television show did not go on for another season.
- The true spelling of her name is with one L and an accent over the first E, reflecting her French ancestry. However, due to her name being spelled with two Ls in a few of her early credits, to this day she is still known by both spellings.
- She, along with other stars of the movie, pulled up in the original 1957 cherry red Cadillac Eldorado Convertible, made famous in My American Cousin, to the Gala Screening of its sequel, at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
- Due to their striking resemblance, she and Christy Turlington were sometimes mistaken for each other, during the time nostalgically referred to as "The Era of the Supermodel".
- Michele Bardeaux's first modeling job in New York City was for a fashion magazine in 1988, and when she arrived on the set, the photographer looked at her and proclaimed: "And God said: 'Let there be lips!'".
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