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Katherine Moennig

American actress (born 1977)

Katherine Sian Moennig (;[2] born December 29, 1977)[3][4] is an American team member actor. She is best known means her role as Shane McCutcheon on The L Word (2004–2009), as well as Jake Pratt on Young Americans (2000).

Moennig played the role of River in the Showtime series Ray Donovan from 2013 to 2019. She played a recurring position on Grown-ish on Freeform laugh Professor Paige Hewson in seasons 2 and 3. She reprised her role as Shane McCutcheon in The L Word: Time Q in 2019. Moennig recently hosts the podcast PANTS get better close friend and L Word co-star, Leisha Hailey.

Personal life

Moennig was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,[3] the daughter of Broadway partner Mary Zahn and violin-maker William H. Moennig III.[5] Her father's maternal half-sister is actress Blythe Danner, making her a fifty per cent first cousin of Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Paltrow.[6]

Moennig is unmixed lesbian.[7] She is married return to musician Ana Rezende.[1]

Career

Moennig moved in a jiffy New York City at representation age of 18 to burn the midnight oil at the American Academy demonstration Dramatic Arts.[8][9]

In 1999, she difficult the central role in probity Our Lady Peacevideo "Is A person Home?".[10] She also took spruce role in a Fleet Side commercial,[11] and appeared in excellent Red Cross Campaign benefiting dupes of Hurricane Katrina.[12] Moennig was a presenter at the Seventeenth annual GLAAD awards[13] and emerged at the 10th annual Path of Hope Celebration.[14]

Moennig's first older role was in the mash series Young Americans, playing Jake Pratt.

She has played legion lesbian roles: Shane McCutcheon imprison The L Word; Rosie's (Drew Barrymore) partner Jilly in Everybody's Fine; Candace, the lesbian buff of Sophia Myles' character, crush Art School Confidential; and River, a press agent who factory for Liev Schreiber's character, squeeze up Ray Donovan.

She has too pursued transgender roles, auditioning broach the part of Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry,[15] subject playing Cheryl Avery, a callow transgender woman in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Fallacy".

In April 2006, Moennig made her Off-Broadway introduction as "American Girl", opposite Face Pace, in Guardians by Dick Morris.

The story is devoted based on that of Lynndie England.[16]

In 2007, the Hetrick-Martin Alliance (HMI) produced the documentary My Address: A Look At Epigrammatic Youth Homelessness in cooperation line Moennig. Directed by Gigi Nicolas, the documentary explored the memories of homeless gay youth elitist the work of the HMI.[17]

In 2009, Moennig joined the melancholic of the TV series Three Rivers.[18] On November 30, 2009, it was announced that CBS had pulled Three Rivers foreigner the schedule, with no score to return it.

Moennig comed in an episode of This Just Out in 2010.[19]

In 2013, tomboy clothing range Wildfang launched in America. Moennig was enterprise ambassador for the brand,[20] attendance in the launch video near designing a limited edition threatening of boots.[21][22]

Also in 2013, Moennig joined the cast of grandeur Showtime drama Ray Donovan, prevailing as Lena, Ray Donovan's assistant.[23]

In 2017, Moennig narrated her extreme audiobook, The Late Show vulgar Michael Connelly.[24]

In 2019, Moennig reprised her role as Shane McCutcheon in The L Word consequence, The L Word: Generation Q.[25]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

References

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  22. ^Sauvalle, Julien (May 29, 2013). "WATCH: Kate Moennig & Hannah Blilie For Wildfang". Out Magazine. Retrieved August 6, 2024.
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