Emmy® Award Winning Actress Tracks Down her Daughter's Killer in New Television Movie

Beloved daytime siren adds starring in primetime film to her illustrious resume.

Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) February 16, 2007 -- Two-time Emmy® award winning actress Michelle Stafford stars in "Like Mother, Like Daughter" premiering on Lifetime Television Sunday, February 18th at 9.00pm and re-airing on Wednesday, February 28th at 12.00pm.

This suspense thriller follows Stafford, as Dawna Williams, a successful business woman, who when she finds out her college-aged daughter has gone missing, elicits help from her friend and daughter's college professor, unaware that she is seeking assistance from the very man who kidnapped her. The film also stars Danielle Kind and William R. Moses ("Wicked," "Mystic Pizza").

Michelle's day job keeps her busy starring as Phyllis in "The Young and The Restless" (the #1 rated daytime drama for the past 18 years). Stafford joined the cast in 1994 and has since developed Phyllis into one of the most popular and vivacious characters on daytime to date. Receiving praise such as: "Her 1940's film-noir toughness... has made her an instant sensation. She is the campiest, most sex-sational presence ever to steam up the soaps." -TV Guide

Michelle has also starred in Aaron Spelling's drama "Pacific Palisades," guest starred on Dick Wolf's "Players," "Two Guys, A Girl and A Pizza Place," "JAG," "Diagnosis Murder," "Judging Amy," "Frasier" and had a recurring role on Pamela Anderson's "VIP." She worked opposite Ashley Judd in the popular film "Double Jeopardy," directed by the acclaimed Bruce Beresford and starred in the psychological thriller "Attraction," opposite Tom Everett Scott.

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