Michelle Lynn Monaghan Bio

 Michelle Lynn Monaghan (born March 23 in 1976) is an American actress. She is most well-known for her performances in the films Kiss Bang Bang (2006), Gone Baby Gone (2007, Made of Honor (2008)), Trucker (2008) and Source Code (2011). She has also received recognition for her leading role in the role of Julia Meade in the action spy film series Mission: Impossible, appearing in Mission: Impossible III (2006), Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011), and Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018).On TV, Monaghan starred as Maggie Hart in the premiere season of the anthology crime drama series True Detective (2014), for which she received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was also Sarah Lane on the drama series The Path (2016-18). Monaghan played the role of Eva Geller on the 2020 Netflix thriller series Messiah. The show was pulled after just one season. Monaghan was born in the tiny town (then estimated to be 750 people) in Winthrop, Iowa, the daughter of Sharon Hammel, and Robert Monaghan, a factory worker. Bob and John are her two elder brothers. Monaghan is of Irish and German origins, and was raised Catholic.She graduated from East Buchanan High School in 1994. After graduation, she moved to Chicago to pursue a degree in journalism, before pursuing modeling. She was a model in Milan, Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong, as well as in the United States. With only one term left to finish her journalism course in 1999, she left for New York to pursue an acting career. She worked as a model and appeared in a variety of catalogs and magazines, before making her acting debut. The first two TV appearances, in a supporting role, were as Caroline Busse in episodes of Young Americans, which aired in 2000. Her second television appearance was in Law & Order: Special Victims Unified , in "Consent", which was aired on January 19, 2001. Also, Monaghan made her big screen debut in Perfume in 2001 as Henrietta. Her next film, again as a supporting character in 2002, was Unfaithful in which she starred Richard Gere and Diane Lane.