Michelle Ray Smith

Biography

Michelle Ray Smith (born September 24, 1974) is an American soap opera actress and underwear model.

== Career == Smith has been featured in the Victoria’s Secret catalogue, and has been seen nationally in television commercials for Listerine, Noxzema, Oil of Olay, Dannon, and a well-known and recognized spot for Dentyne Ice. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. In August 2005, Smith was introduced as a contract player on the daytime soap opera Guiding Light. She played Ava Peralta, a newcomer to the fictional town of Springfield. She left the role in July 2008 after the birth of her son, Jake. In 2009, she had a supporting role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the episode "Snatched" where she played Liz Rinaldi. In 2010, she had a supporting role in the film Salt, starring Angelina Jolie, and played the female lead role alongside Robert Englund in the independent film Inkubus.

== Personal life == Smith became a mother to a son named Jake on July 8, 2008.

== References ==

=== Further reading === https://soaps.sheknows.com/soaps/news/564403/gl-reunion-crystal-chappell-jessica-leccia-michelle-ray-smith-frank-dicopoulos-ej-bonilla/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220813065255/https://daytimeconfidential.com/2008/07/16/16_8 https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/guiding-light-alum-michelle-ray-smith-joins-the-locher-room/ https://people.com/parents/michelle-ray-sm/