Michelle Monaghan
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Monaghan at the premiere of Machine Gun Preacher at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
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Michelle Lynn Monaghan 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) 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).
Monaghan was born in Winthrop, Iowa, the daughter of Sharon (nèe Harnel), who ran a day care center in the family's home for forty years, and Robert Monaghan, a factory worker. She has two older brothers, Bob and John. Her parents brought up twelve foster children over a period of twelve years. Monaghan has Irish and German ancestry, and was raised Catholic.
She graduated from East Buchanan High School in 1994, where she was class president and acted in several plays. After graduation, she moved to Chicago to study journalism at Columbia College Chicago and began to model. 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.
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.
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