Michelle Monaghan

Michelle Monaghan

Michelle Lynn Monaghan was born on March 23, 1976, in Winthrop, Iowa. She is the youngest of three children and the only daughter of Sharon (Hamel), who ran a day care center, and Robert L. Monaghan, a factory worker and farmer. She is of mostly Irish and German descent. After graduating from high school in Iowa, she studied journalism for three years at Chicago's Columbia College. In order to pay for college, she took a job as a model. In 1999, she quit college and moved to New York to work full-time as a fashion model. She traveled the world doing stints on the runways in Milan, Singapore, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, and also appeared in a number of magazines and catalogs. In 2000, she made her TV debut in two episodes of Young Americans (2000), then appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). She made her big screen debut with a small role of Henrietta in Perfume (2001). Monaghan shot to fame in 2002 when she co-starred as Kimberly Woods for one season on the TV series Boston Public (2000). After appearances in several supporting roles, she starred opposite Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer in the black comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005). Later in 2005, Monaghan was filming in China, Italy, and the United States on Mission: Impossible III (2006), as the female lead opposite Tom Cruise. In August of 2005, in Sydney, Australia, she married her long-time sweetheart, Peter White, a New York based graphic designer, whom she met at a Manhattan party five years earlier.

Películas

The White Lotus
Sigue las vivencias de varios huéspedes y empleados durante su estadía en un centro turístico tropical a lo largo de una semana.
True Detective
Serie antológica donde las investigaciones policiales desenmascaran los secretos personales y profesionales de personas tanto dentro como fuera de la ley.
Día del atentado
Contra su voluntad, un policía recio debe cumplir funciones en la maratón de Boston, pero termina ayudando a encontrar a los responsables de un estremecedor atentado.
Pixeles
Cuando los extraterrestres atacan la Tierra como en los antiguos videojuegos, el presidente y sus amigos de la infancia, los reyes de las maquinitas, se ponen en acción.
La mujer de mis pesadillas
Convencido de que dio con la mujer ideal, un hombre decide casarse con ella sin conocerla bien. Pero, en la luna de miel, descubre que cometió un grave error.
Misión: Imposible III
Un agente llamado Ethan Hunt se enfrenta a un peligroso y sádico traficante de armas que amenaza su vida y la de su prometida.