Biography
Michelle Tesoro is an American film and television editor. She grew up in Chicago and studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She began her career in New York as a DVD and promo editor, moved to Los Angeles in 2005, and started editing television productions in 2007.
Tesoro is known for her work on the miniseries The Queen’s Gambit (2020), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and an ACE Eddie Award; Fringe (2010); Godless (2017); When They See Us (2019); and the film Maestro (2023). Her other credits include On the Basis of Sex (2018), Shot Caller (2017) and Flag Day (2021). She received an ACE Eddie Award nomination for Maestro.
