Sharona Fleming
| Sharona Fleming | |
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| First appearance | "Mr. Monk and the Candidate" |
| Last appearance | "Mr. Monk and Sharona" "Mr. Monk on Patrol" (book) |
| Created by | David Hoberman |
| Portrayed by |
Bitty Schram (2002–2004, 2009) |
| Information | |
| Aliases | Sharona Monk ("Mr. Monk Gets Married") |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Nurse, assistant to Adrian Monk |
| Family | Douglas Fleming (father; deceased) Cheryl Fleming (mother) Gail Fleming (sister) |
| Spouse(s) |
Trevor Howe (twice divorced) |
| Significant other(s) | Randy Disher (2009–present) |
| Children |
Benjamin "Benjy" Fleming (son, with Trevor) |
Sharona Fleming is a fictional character in the USA Network television series Monk. Sharona is a divorced registered nurse from New Jersey and a single mother with a young son named Benjy. She was played by Bitty Schram. Schram was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance.
Sharona's childhood is only mentioned in the season 3 episode "Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf". Her father, Douglas, owned a hardware store and died when she was a child. This left her mother, Cheryl, to raise Sharona and her younger sister, Gail, who is an actress and appears in the episodes "Mr. Monk and the Earthquake" and "Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater".
The season 2 episode "Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy" reveals that Sharona had married Trevor out of high school, but it did not last long, leaving her with an infant, Benjy, to raise on her own. When her son Benjy was one, she did some nude modeling under a pseudonym in Atlantic City, revealed to Monk in that episode when playboy Dexter Larsen of Sapphire Magazine threatens to publish these photos to keep Monk from investigating him further. In the season 1 episode "Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale" Dale "the Whale" Biederbeck asks Sharona if she is "still making house calls," to which Sharona replies that "she doesn't do that kinda stuff anymore," implying that at one point she used her LPN training to do home health care.
It was also stated that Sharona was a registered nurse before becoming Adrian Monk's practical nurse. In Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife, Sharona noted that she was an R.N. (at the time of the episode) and interned with the doctors who were going to operate on Karen Stottlemeyer. In Mr. Monk Gets Fired, she returned to work as a nurse. When Sharona returned in season 8, she had re-divorced her husband, and was an administrator at a veterans hospital in New Jersey.
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