Biography
Michelle Monaghan is an American actress who has starred in films such as Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Gone Baby Gone, Made of Honor, Eagle Eye, Trucker, Source Code, Pixels, and Patriots Day. She is well recognized for her role as Julia Meade in the action spy film series Mission: Impossible, which she reprised in Mission: Impossible III, Ghost Protocol, and Fallout.
Age
She is 48 years old as of 23 March 2024. She was born in 1976 in Winthrop, Iowa, United States. Her real name is Michelle Lynn Monaghan.
Family – Education
Monaghan was born as the daughter of Sharon (Hammel) and manufacturing worker Robert Monaghan. She has two older brothers named Bob and John. She was raised Catholic and traces her lineage to Ireland and Germany. She graduated from East Buchanan High School in 1994. After graduation, she relocated to Chicago to study journalism at Columbia College Chicago and started modeling. She has modeled in Milan, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and the United States. In 1999, with one semester remaining to complete her journalism degree, she moved to New York to pursue an acting career.
Husband – Children
Monaghan met Peter White, an Australian graphic artist, at a party in 2000. They married at Port Douglas, Queensland, in August 2005, and now live in New York. She gave birth to their daughter in 2008 and boy on October 30, 2013.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $16 million.
Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches(1.70 m).
Boston Public
She appeared as Kimberly Woods a Teacher who was transferred to a school in another state to avoid a dangerous, obsessed student in episode 57 in the American drama television series Boston Public. Boston Public aired before Ally McBeal on Monday nights. However, Fox relegated it to the Friday night death slot for its fourth season.
As a result, viewership dropped, and the show was terminated after the 13th episode, which aired on January 30, 2004. Production was halted once the 15th episode was finished. The final two episodes broadcast on March 1 and 2, 2005, followed by syndication on TV One. Neither episode concluded any character storylines.
Each episode was titled as a numbered chapter, akin to a high school textbook, and each character appeared in a specific story arc, with professional and personal life frequently intertwining. Boston Public won the 2002 Peabody Award (“Chapter Thirty-Seven”) from the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Messiah
She appeared as CIA Case Officer Eva Gelle in the American thriller television series Messiah. The series follows the modern world’s reaction to a guy who comes in the Middle East and claims to be the eschatological return of ʿĪsā (Jesus in Arabic). His abrupt arrival and apparent miracles sparked an international following, raising questions about who he truly is, a case probed by a CIA Case Officer.
Echoes
She appeared as Leni and Gina McCleary, twin sisters in the drama television miniseries Echoes. The miniseries is a mystery thriller about identical twins Leni and Gina, who keep a frightening secret. They have surreptitiously swapped lives since they were children, resulting in a double life as adults that includes two residences, two husbands, and a child. Their lives is turned upside down when one of the twins goes missing.
The Path
She featured as Sarah Lane (née Armstrong): Sarah, who was born into a Meyerist household, has become a prominent person in The Movement due to her compassion and authority. Her commitment, however, is tested when she finds her husband’s lies.
Eddie Lane lives in Upstate New York with his wife Sarah and two children, Hawk and Summer. They are all part of the Meyerist Movement, which blends New Age philosophy, shamanism, Scientology, Christian mysticism, and Utopianism with elements of Shakers, Sufism, Tibetan Buddhism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Freemasonry rites.
Eddie returns from Peru, where he completed a spiritual retreat aimed at moving him up Meyerism’s spiritual ladder. Eddie had an epiphany while in Peru that caused him to reconsider his faith in Meyerism, which he did not tell his family. Meanwhile, Cal Roberts, Sarah’s friend and one of Meyerism’s top leaders, is working to grow the group’s power while dealing with the impending death of their founder, Doctor Stephen Meyer.
True Detective
In True Detective season one, Monaghan plays Maggie Hart, Detective Martin Hart’s ex-wife. Maggie Hart is Martin Hart’s ex-wife. Maggie, Martin’s loving spouse, is concerned about his health and loses patience as he drifts away from her. Lisa Tragnetti pays her a visit and informs her that Martin has been having an affair with her. Maggie kicks him out of the house and attempts to kick him out of the hospital, creating a disturbance.
She brings her daughters roller skating with their father, who informs her that he has slept with other women. They eventually reunite after Martin agrees to stop drinking. In 2002, she discovers him having another affair and assumes he is out drinking. To prevent Martin from returning, she chooses to sleep with another man, Rust. Rust grows skeptical of her following the incident, and she admits she knew it would irreversibly damage their relationship. Maggie is called in for interrogation in 2012, when the Yellow King murders resume, and she lies about the 2002 fight.
Movies
♦ 2024 – MaXXXine †
♦ 2023 – Spinning Gold
♦ 2023 – The Family Plan
♦ 2022 – Nanny
♦ 2022 – Black Site
♦ 2022 – Blood
♦ 2021 – Every Breath You Take
♦ 2020 – The Craft: Legacy
♦ 2018 – Mission: Impossible
♦ 2018 – Saint Judy
♦ 2017 – Sleepless
♦ 2017 – The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
♦ 2016 – Patriots Day
♦ 2015 – Pixels
TV Shows
♦ 2024 – Bad Monkey †
♦ 2022 – Echoes
♦ 2020 – Messiah
♦ 2016–18 – The Path
♦ 2015 – Comedy Bang! Bang!
♦ 2014 – True Detective
♦ 2013 – American Dad!
♦ 2002–03 – Boston Public
♦ 2002 – Hack
♦ 2001 – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
♦ 2000 – Young Americans