Michelle Lynn Monaghan Bio

Michelle Lynn Monaghan (born March 23, 1976) is an American actress. She is most famous for her role as the lead in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), Gone Baby Gone (2007), Made of Honor (2008), Eagle Eye (2008), Trucker (2008), Source Code (2011), Pixels (2015) and Patriots Day (2016). Also, she has received awards for her role as Julia Meade in the action spy film series Mission: Impossible, appearing in Mission: Impossible III (2006), Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011), Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011), and Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018).On television, Monaghan starred as Maggie Hart in the premiere season of the anthology crime-drama show True Detective (2014), for which she received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also played Sarah Lane in the drama series The Path (2016-18). Monaghan was also a part of Eva Geller in the 2020 Netflix thriller series Messiah The show was pulled after just one season. Monaghan was the daughter of Sharon Hammel and Robert Monaghan (a factory worker) and was born in Winthrop, Iowa. Bob and John are her two older brothers. Monaghan has mostly Irish and German heritage, and was raised Catholic.She graduated from East Buchanan High School in 1994. After graduation, Monaghan relocated to Chicago to pursue journalism studies and began modeling. She has modelled in Milan and Tokyo, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and the United States. She left New York for an acting career after she completed her journalism degree in 1999. Her first job was as model. The first two TV appearances, in a supporting role and as Caroline Busse in episodes of Young Americans, which aired in 2000. She also performed on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in "Consent" which was an episode that aired on the 19th of January, 2001, and she made her debut on the big screen the same year with Perfume in the role of Henrietta. Her next film, this time in a supporting role and in 2002 in Unfaithful with Richard Gere and Diane Lane.