Michelle Monaghan

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Biography

Recent Role:
Herself on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Gender:
Female
Born:
3-23-1976
Birthplace:
Winthrop, Iowa, USA
Birth Name:
Michelle Lynn Monaghan
AKA:
Michelle Monoghan, Michelle Lynn Monaghan
Michelle grew up in a rural farm community in Winthrop, Iowa. After graduating from high school, she went to Chicago to study journalism while doing modeling jobs and commercials to pay for her tuition. She then decided to pursue a career in modeling and eventually became interested in acting.







Initially, Michelle was cast in minor parts of episodes in TV series such as Young Americans and







More href="http://www.tv.com/law-and-order-special-victims-unit/show/334/summary.html">Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
. Her roles in TV paved the way for roles in movies such as Perfume and Unfaithful. Her big break came when she co-starred in one season of Boston Public in 2002.







2005 was a major year for her when she did several movie projects alongside the biggest names in Hollywood: Robert Downey, Jr. and Val Kilmer in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Charlize Theron and Frances McDormand in North Country and Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible III.

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  • Michelle Monaghan Quips and Quotes

    As per site guidelines of having just 10 quotes per editorless person guide and my personal preference of having at most 15 quotes for all person guides I edit, I added this thread as supplement to the Quotes section of the guide. If you wish to submit a new quote, either do it on this thread orMore kindly PM me before replacing any of the existing quotes on the Quotes section. Thanks! Michelle : (on working with Shia LaBeouf on " Eagle Eye ") We worked really hard, extensively for six months, and while we became really good friends, we were also pretty competitive too because we were doing all these action sequences together. There was a lot of running and who is faster and what not, but we had an awesome time together.

    1 comments, last one Sep 17, 2008
  • Made of Honor

    Has anyone seen the movie yet? It placed second behind Iron Man in last weekend's box office. Was there chemistry between Patrick Dempsey and Michelle (who, BTW, looks like a young Ellen Pompeo/Meredith Grey, IMO)?:)

    1 comments, last one May 7, 2008
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