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Date of Birth

29 December 1977, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth Name

Katherine Sian Moennig

Height

5' 8" (1.73 m)

Trade Mark

Deep, husky voice.

Trivia

Had the central role in the music video for the Canadian band Our Lady Peace, the song was "Is Anybody Home".

Mother is a Broadway dancer and father is a violin maker.

Auditioned for Boys Don't Cry (1999).

Graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Niece of producer Bruce Paltrow, actress Blythe Danner and actor Harry Danner. First cousin of director Jake Paltrow and actresses Hillary Danner and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Mostly known for her role as Jake Pratt in "Young Americans" (2000).

Her grandfather, William Moennig, hailed from Markneukirchen, a little German town famous for musical instruments.

Is mostly known as Shane McCutcheon in the "The L Word" (2004).

She has said that most of her friends growing up were boys, and that she was a huge tomboy. In her words: 'I had the biggest big wheels'.

She is known for choosing non-traditional roles, usually those that involve gender-bending. These roles include Jacqueline 'Jake' Pratt in the television series Young Americans, and a male-to-female transsexual in an episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999) (Season 4, episode 21, "Fallacy").

She's trained in fencing, and says that if she wasn't an actress, she'd be a marine biologist or in the FBI. As a little girl, she wanted to be a doorman.

Has German and Irish ancestry.

Personal Quotes

[On what she's learned from playing the role of Jake Pratt on "Young Americans" (2000)] "The clothes are comfortable...but on a deeper level I learned that the competition between boys and girls isn't as strong as between women"

Where Are They Now

(2007) Currently lives in Los Angeles, California

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