Michèle Duquet was born in Quebec, Canada. She is fluent in a total of three languages, English, French and Spanish, and conversant in several others. Although her first language is French, she works in all three languages equally comfortably, having worked on productions in the United States, Canada and Argentina such as 3 Men and a Baby (1987), Las boludas (1993) and Murdoch Mysteries (2008).