Michelle Monaghan

Michelle Monaghan
Monaghan at the premiere of Machine Gun Preacher at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Michelle Lynn Monaghan (1976-03-23) March 23, 1976 Winthrop, Iowa, United States
Residence	New York, New York, United States
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2000–present
Spouse(s)	Peter White (m. 2005)
Children	2

Michelle Lynn Monaghan (born March 23, 1976^[1]) is an American actress known for her roles in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Gone Baby Gone (2007), Made of Honor (2008), Eagle Eye (2008), Source Code (2011), and True Detective's first season (2014).

Early life

Monaghan was born in Winthrop, Iowa to Sharon (nèe Harnel),^[2] who ran a day care center in the family's home for forty years,^[3] and Robert Monaghan, a factory worker.^[4][5] She has two older brothers, Bob and John.^[6] Her parents brought up twelve foster children over a period of twelve years.^[3] Monaghan has Irish and German ancestry, and was raised Catholic.^[7][8][9]

She graduated from East Buchanan High School in 1994,^[5] where she was class president and acted in several plays.^[10] After graduation, she moved to Chicago to study journalism at Columbia College Chicago and began to model.^[11] She modeled in Milan, Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong, as well as in the United States. With one semester remaining to complete her journalism degree in 1999, she left for New York to pursue an acting career, where she appeared as a model in several magazines and catalogs before making her acting debut.^[12]

Career

Monaghan at the Mission: Impossible III premiere, April 2006

Monaghan's first notable appearances, though minor roles, were in episodes of Young Americans (in which she appeared twice), and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, came in 2001. She made her big screen debut that year in the small role of "Henrietta" in the movie Perfume. This was followed by another small role in Unfaithful in 2002.

Monaghan got a big-break role in 2002 when she co-starred in the television series Boston Public playing the role of Kimberly Woods. After guest-starring for a season, she returned to film, appearing in It Runs in the Family in 2003, Winter Solstice in 2004, and starring with Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in 2005. She also appears in Constantine in 2005, but her role in that film was essentially cut, with her scenes viewable on the DVD under "deleted scenes."

In 2007, she co-starred with Ben Stiller in The Heartbreak Kid, and with Casey Affleck in Gone Baby Gone. In 2008, she co-starred with Patrick Dempsey in Made of Honor, and co-starred with Shia LaBeouf in Eagle Eye. She starred alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in Source Code. She played Diane Ford in Trucker.^[13]

Monaghan starred in the critically acclaimed HBO anthology series True Detective.

In April 2016, Monaghan was reported to have joined the principal cast of Shawn Christensen's independent feature film Sidney Hall, which began filming later that month.^[14]

Personal life

Monaghan met Australian graphic artist Peter White at a party in 2000. They married in Sydney five years later in August 2005 and live in New York.^[15] She gave birth to their daughter in 2008,^[16] and their son on October 30, 2013.^[17]

In 2011, Monaghan had a mole on the back of her calf, which she had examined then removed. It was diagnosed as skin cancer.^[18]

Filmography

Monaghan at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival

Films

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Michelle Monaghan.

• Michelle Monaghan at the Internet Movie Database
• Michelle Monaghan interview at reviewgraveyard.com
• Profile of Michelle Monaghan