Early life

Clunie was born in Portland, Oregon, where she studied ballet, tap, jazz, and violin. She was awarded a scholarship to The Academy of Professional Ballet where she studied and apprenticed throughout her teenage years. At 19 years old she sold her violin for $200 and moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue her acting career.

Career

At 23 years old Clunie’s Los Angeles stage debut earned her a Dramalogue Award for Best Actress in in Dean Orion’s A Comedy of Eros performed at the Skylight Theatre.

Additional stage highlights include her portrayal of Abby in Neil LaBute’s West Coast premiere of The Mercy Seat at the Ford Theatre, for which she won the Backstage Readers Best Performance Award, and the world premiere and Off-Broadway production of US, written and performed by Clunie at New York City’s Lion Theatre at Theatre Row. US is a 21st century love story set against the backdrop of the 2008 Presidential election and examines the power struggles in both politics and the bedroom. It dissects how people meet, communicate, copulate and fall in love in the age of constant media and technology.

In 1995 Clunie was cast in the Academy Award winning The Usual Suspects and shortly thereafter played a supporting role in Lost & Found starring David Spade and Martin Sheen. She became a series regular on The Jeff Foxworthy Show and guest starred on ER, The Tony Danza Show, House M.D., Without a Trace, NCIS, among several others.

Her big break came when she booked the part of "Melanie Marcus", a smart, determined and activist-minded lesbian attorney in the first-of-its-kind series, Queer as Folk. Clunie plays the biology teacher, Mrs. Finch, on MTV’s most successful scripted series to date, Teen Wolf.

Personal life

In January 2015 at the age of 45, Clunie gave birth to Dashiell Julius William Clunie-Singer with film director, producer and screenwriter Bryan Singer.

She splits her time between Los Angeles and New York City and lives with her French Bulldog, Jimi, and her son, Dashiell.

Activism

Clunie has always been one to speak out for things she passionately believes in. During her five seasons on Queer as Folk she became a vocal advocate for Human Rights, and for the last 15 years has dedicated much of her time to fighting for Full Equality. She hosted the first fundraiser for the 2009 National Equality March on Washington and was honored to speak from the stage to the 200,000 attendees. She has organized Get Out the Vote campaigns for key Democrats on both a national and local level, and in 2015 became a global ambassador for Pride Nation’s “Global March to Equality.”

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday	Deborah
1993	Sunset Strip	Jonesy
1995	The Usual Suspects	Sketch Artist
1996	Space: Above and Beyond	Jennifer Brandt	1 episode
1996	The Jeff Foxworthy Show	DeeDee Landrow	5 episodes
1997	Boy Meets World	Kelly	1 episode
	Night Man	Megan Farrell	1 episode
1998	The Tony Danza Show	Maggie	1 episode
1999	Lost & Found	Gail
1999	V.I.P.	Mary Tepsin	1 episode
2000	Diagnosis: Murder	Maeve Michaels	1 episode
2000	Battery Park	Mrs. Fleishman	1 episode
2000-2005	Queer as Folk	Melanie Marcus	83 episodes
2002	Judging Amy	Nancy
2005	The Unseen	Kathleen
2006	House M.D	Judy	1 episode
2006	Without a Trace	Cindy Peterson	1 episode
2007	The Closer	Dr. Leonard	1 episode
2008	Solar flare	Jamie
2008	Leaving Barstow	Sandra
2009	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Paulla Kingsley	1 episode
2010	The Mentalist	Tara Harrington	1 episode
2010-2011	Make It or Break It	Ellen Beals	Recurring role
2010	Lie to Me	Jane Prescott	1 episode
2011	Detroit 1-8-7	Alex Bergman	1 episode
2011	In Plain Sight	Sage Lorne/Britt Parnell	1 episode
2012	Magic Mike	Dallas' Girl
2013	NCIS	Meredith Dunn	1 episode
2014	Death Clique	Tina
2014	Bones	Suzanne Levitt	1 episode
2015	Teen Wolf	Mrs Finch (AP Biology Teacher)	Recurring role
2015	A Sort of Homecoming	Amy Hartinger	Independent film

[ Source: Wikipedia ]