Michele Landon is a member of the Landon family. She is the wife of Andrew Landon and the mother of Jodie, Rachel, and Evan Landon.
Physical Appearance[]
Michele is a tall middle-aged woman with cropped black, curly hair. She is seen wearing a red jacket, black undershirt, pants, shoes, and long pear-chained earrings. She wears a deep burgundy lipstick.
Character Overview[]
Michele was formerly a Senior VP at "US World," but during the time frame of the series she primarily stayed at home to care for her infant son, Evan, a situation she considers a "temporary hiatus." She expresses barely-restrained irritation about this, wanting to put Evan in daycare and randomly letting slip that he was "unplanned", and in The Daria Database is said to nurse while reading Wall Street World.
Most of the information about Michele is only known through a brief mention in The Daria Database. However, during Gifted, where she is introduced and has her longest appearance, her behavior is shown as highly defensive and judgmental, specifically in the way she takes Helen Morgendorffer's most innocent statements and well meaning assumptions as personal insults directed at her ethnicity. ("Why do you assume I'm in favor of welfare?") Later, it is revealed she regards Helen and Jake as being kooks. However, in Of Human Bonding, she gets on quite well with Daria as they both loathe Terry Perry Barlow.
Both she and Andrew push Jodie into overachieving, ignoring and overruling any protests she makes (The F Word). However, she's more willing to give Jodie a break than Andrew, and will sometimes overrule him in Jodie's favor, which in the case of Grove Hills was to jab at Andrew for making her give up a career (Gifted, Is It College Yet?).
Relationships[]
Familial[]
Andrew Landon[]
The relationship between her and Andrew is under strain. She once referred to him with annoyance and contempt when he was networking in Of Human Bonding, where the two also publicly feuded over her desire (and not his) to put Evan in daycare as soon as possible. In the MTV flipbook It Takes Two to Tangle, it's said their marriage is at risk because of "competing delusions of executive grandeur."
Jodie Landon[]
Both Michele and Andrew are very strict about Jodie's grades.
Evan Landon[]
Andrew and Michele have clashed over raising him.
Rachel Landon[]
Andrew and Michele have another daughter, Rachel Landon, who was the "baby" of the family until Evan came along.
Trivia[]
- According to The Daria Database, she is forty-two years old which makes her eight years younger than Andrew.
- Michele's first name is spelled with one "L," according to The Daria Database.