Michele Lee is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Karen Fairgate MacKenzie on the prime-time soap opera Knots Landing, for which she was nominated for a 1982 Emmy Award and won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Actress in 1988, 1991, and 1992. She was the only performer to appear in all 344 episodes of the series. She is also known for her authorship of the best-selling autobiography "My Father was a Blackbelt".