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Michelle Monaghan

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Michelle Monaghan
What do Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight, The Isley Brothers, The Village People, and Bill Withers all have in common with the rock band KISS?  They all rose to their musical heights under the watchful ear of the music industry's most colorful and brilliant music producer, Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records, the most successful independent record company of all time.  Along with a rag tag team of young music lovers, Neil and Casablanca Records would rewrite history and change the music industry forever.
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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 enjoyed appearances 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, Michelle Monaghan married her long-time sweetheart, Peter White, a New York based graphic designer, who she met at a Manhattan party five years earlier.
BornMarch 23, 1976
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Michelle Monaghan and Jeremy Jordan in Spinning Gold (2023)
Michelle Monaghan and Anna Diop in Nanny (2022)
David Duchovny, Michelle Monaghan, and Cailee Spaeny in The Craft: Legacy (2020)
David Duchovny, Michelle Monaghan, and Cailee Spaeny in The Craft: Legacy (2020)
Michelle Monaghan in Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Michelle Monaghan in Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)
Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan in Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan in Eagle Eye (2008)
Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan in Eagle Eye (2008)
Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan in Eagle Eye (2008)
Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan in Eagle Eye (2008)
Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan in Eagle Eye (2008)

Known for

Casey Affleck in Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Gone Baby Gone
7.6
  • Angie Gennaro
  • 2007
Val Kilmer, Robert Downey Jr., and Michelle Monaghan in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
7.5
  • Harmony Faith Lane
  • 2005
Adam Sandler, Peter Dinklage, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, and Josh Gad in Pixels (2015)
Pixels
5.6
  • Violet
  • 2015
Cas Anvar, Vera Farmiga, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jeffrey Wright, Michelle Monaghan, and Michael Arden in Source Code (2011)
Source Code
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  • Christina Warren
  • 2011

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  • Spinning Gold
    • Completed
  • Bad Monkey
    • In Production
  • The Family Plan
    • In Production
  • The Price of Admission
    • In Production
  • Blood (2022)
    Blood
  • Karen Robinson and Michelle Monaghan in Echoes (2022)
    Echoes
  • Jason Clarke, Michelle Monaghan, and Jai Courtney in Black Site (2022)
    Black Site
  • Anna Diop in Nanny (2022)
    Nanny
  • Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, and Sam Claflin in Every Breath You Take (2021)
    Every Breath You Take
  • Zoey Luna, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone, and Cailee Spaeny in The Craft: Legacy (2020)
    The Craft: Legacy
  • Messiah (2020)
    Messiah
  • Michelle Monaghan in Saint Judy (2018)
    Saint Judy
  • Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson, and Simon Pegg in Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
    Mission: Impossible - Fallout
  • The Path (2016)
    The Path
  • Logan Lerman in The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017)
    The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
  • Jamie Foxx in Sleepless (2017)
    Sleepless
  • Mark Wahlberg in Patriots Day (2016)
    Patriots Day
  • Official poster for Kittens in a Cage. Directed by Jillian Armenante.
    Kittens in a Cage
  • Adam Sandler, Peter Dinklage, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, and Josh Gad in Pixels (2015)
    Pixels

Producer

  • The Path (2016)
    The Path
  • Nathan Fillion and Michelle Monaghan in Trucker (2008)
    Trucker

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The Most Exciting Thing About 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout'
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    • March 23, 1976
    • Winthrop, Iowa, USA
    • August 12, 2005 - present (2 children)
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  • Other works
    TV commercial for Stayfree (2001)
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    Won blue ribbons as a hog wrestler when she was age 13.
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    You don't grow up in a town of 700 thinking you're going to be an actress. I loved doing [school] plays, but it was just something to keep me busy.

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