Michelle Tisseyre (née Ahern; 13 March 1918 – 21 December 2014) was a Canadian television presenter who also worked in the fields of journalism and translations.

[1][2][4] In 1941, encouraged by Roger Baulu, Tisseyre started working as an announcer with Radio-Canada and she had very good fluency in both French and English languages.

As a woman she was the first to broadcast 15-minute newsletter of war for the CBC French services, much to the chagrin of Michel Ouimet who was then a well known reporter.

During 1955 to 1960, she also hosted many shows for the Music Hall, interviewing famous artists like Édith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour, Félix Leclerc and Jean-Pierre Ferland.

[1] At the start of her television shows, in 1953, she did a pre-planned stunt, in which she, as a slim presenter, flipped and overthrew a 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) judo world champion when he had become aggressive.

[1] Tisseyre started performing for the theater in 1948 with the radio play Les Dames de notre temps.

As editor, she translated a number of French-language books such as: La Collection des deux Solitudes — a series of novels by English Canadians like Winter by Morley Callaghan, Margaret Laurence, W. O. Mitchell and Robertson Davies.

[1] Tisseyre ventured into politics once during the referendum campaign of 1980 when she addressed the Montreal Forum, an assembly of 15,000 people, most of them women.

[2] After Tisseyre's husband died in 1995, she pursued her studies at the McGill University and received a BA degree in 2006 when she was 88 years old.