Michelle Monaghan

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Michelle Monaghan at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival

Michelle Lynn Monaghan (born March 23, 1976 in Winthrop , Iowa ) is an American actress , film producer and former model of German - Irish descent .

life and career

Michelle Monaghan first studied journalism in Chicago and made a living as a model. Her success in this profession was so great that she gave up studying for it.

In 2000, Monaghan made her acting debut in the television series Rawley High - The First Semester . In 2002 she starred alongside Diane Lane and Richard Gere in the role of Lindsay in the relationship drama Unfaithful for the first time in a movie, but initially returned to the world of high school series for Boston Public . After a small role in the thriller The Bourne Conspiracy (2004), she starred in 2005 alongside Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz in the mystery thriller Constantine . However, her scenes were cut from the film due to time constraints. The same thing happened to her - together with Gina Gershon - in the same year with the political film Syriana .

However, Monaghan's role as the quick-tongued heroine in Shane Black's action comedy Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang , which earned her a Satellite Award nomination , and Sherry miner alongside Charlize Theron and Sean Bean in Cold Lands caught her attention in 2005.

2006 Monaghan starred opposite Tom Cruise and Philip Seymour Hoffman the role of Julia Meade in Mission: Impossible III . In the same year she began shooting the crime film Gone Baby Gone under the direction of Ben Affleck , based on one of the "Kenzie & Gennaro" novels by the author Dennis Lehane about the dark cases of two private detectives working in Boston . Next to her as Angela Gennaro , Affleck's brother Casey Affleck played her partner Patrick Kenzie . In 2007 she embodied the reason why a honeymooner - played by Ben Stiller - is thinking of divorcing his newlywed wife in the comedy After 7 Days - Out of Flutter. In 2008 she starred in the comedy In Love with the Bride and in the same year played one of the leading roles in the thriller Eagle Eye . Other film and television roles followed, including in the first season of True Detective and, since 2016, a leading role in The Path . In 2018 she was back to the side of Tom Cruise as Julia Meade in Mission: Impossible - Fallout .

In 2017 she was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.

Monaghan has been married to her long-time partner Peter White, an Australian graphic designer from New York City , since August 2005 . You are the parents of a daughter (* 2008) and a son (* 2013). In October 2011, she announced that she had skin cancer and is now cured from it.

Filmography (selection)

Monaghan in London (2006)

Web links

Commons : Michelle Monaghan  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography. In: IMDb (English).
  2. ↑ "Class of 2017". Accessed June 30, 2017. http://www.app.oscars.org/class2017/ .
  3. ↑ Michelle Monaghan - Michelle Monaghan Reveals She Battled Skin Cancer. In: contactmusic.com , October 20, 2011 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Monaghan, Michelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monaghan, Michelle Lynn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress, film producer and former model of German-Irish descent
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Winthrop , Iowa , United States