Portrait of Monica Barbaro

Monica Barbaro

Acting

Biography

Monica Maria Barbaro (/ˈbɑːrbəroʊ/; born June 17, 1990) is an American actress. She began training in ballet at an early age and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance from New York University. She began acting soon after college, taking on small roles in film and television in the 2010s, before her first major role in the second season of Unreal (2016), followed by further television roles in Chicago P.D. (2016–2017), Chicago Justice (2017), The Good Cop (2018), and Splitting Up Together (2018–2019). Her feature film debut was in the independent film The Cathedral (2021). Barbaro's breakthrough came with a supporting role in the action film Top Gun: Maverick (2022), which she followed with starring roles in the Netflix action comedy series FUBAR (2023–present) and as Joan Baez in the biopic A Complete Unknown (2024). For the latter, she was nominated for the SAG Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Monica Barbaro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: June 17, 1990

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA

Filmography

2026
Crime 101

as Maya

2024
A Complete Unknown

as Joan Baez

2023
FUBAR

as Emma Brunner

2023
At Midnight

as Sophie Wilder

2022
The Cathedral

as Lydia Damrosch

2022
2022
Top Gun: Maverick

as Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace

2019
Stumptown

as Liz Melero

2018
The Head Thieves

as Aerobics Video Girl #2

2018
The Good Cop

as Cora Vasquez

2018
2017
Chicago Justice

as Anna Valdez

2016
Notorious

as Chloe Edwards

2016
Lethal Weapon

as Nora Cooper

2015
2015
Stitchers

as Brenda 'Bentley' Miller

2015
UnREAL

as Yael

2014
2014
Chicago P.D.

as Anna Valdez

2013
Bullish

as Eva

2012
Hemingway & Gellhorn

as Tropicana Dancer (uncredited)

2010
Hawaii Five-0

as Ella Koha

1988
1953
The Oscars

as Self

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Artificial

as Mira Murati