Michele Marsh

Michele Marsh sometimes credited as Michèle Marsh, is a French-American television, theater, and film actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Hodel, the second of Tevye’s five daughters who falls in love with a student radical, in the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof. She has acted mainly in television and in West Coast theatre. She resides in Idyllwild, California, where she performs with the Idyllwild Actors Theatre. Early life and education Marsh's father taught music theory in private schools. She and her parents moved permanently to the United States, settling in Washington, D.C. The following year, they relocated to Idyllwild, California, where her father taught in the private Desert Sun School. She attended elementary school in Idyllwild and took classes at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts before the family moved upstate to the Monterey Peninsula in 1959. She appeared in the musical The King and I at the Wharf Theater in Monterey, playing one of the children. After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, she joined the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Fiddler on the Roof