Katherine Moennig
Katherine Sian Moennig (born December 29, 1977) is an American actress best known for her role as Shane McCutcheon on The L Word, as well as Jake Pratt on Young Americans. In 2009, she starred as Dr. Miranda Foster on CBS Three Rivers. Moennig was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Broadway dancer Mary Zahn and violin maker William H. Moennig III. Moennig is of German, Scottish, and Irish ancestry.
Moennig moved to New York City at the age of 18 to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Moennig has played multiple lesbian roles in The L Word, Everybody's Fine, Art School Confidential. She has also pursued transgender roles, auditioning for the part of Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry, and playing Cheryl Avery, a young transgender woman in Law and Order. In 2007, the documentary My Address: A Look At Gay Youth Homelessness in New York was launched with Moennig in cooperation with the Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 27.424 |
Birthday | 1977-12-29 |
Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Also Known As | Kate Moennig, |
2003
Love the Hard Way
6.3/25
Claire, a brilliant student, seeks answers to the meaning of life in the calm of her biology laboratory. One day, she meets a mysterious young man, Ja...
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Love the Hard Way
2011
The Lincoln Lawyer
7.205/3153
A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.
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The Lincoln Lawyer
2012
Gone
6.2/1127
Jill Conway is trying to rebuild her life after surviving a terrifying kidnapping attempt. Though she is having a difficult time, she takes small step...
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Gone
2004
Invitation to a Suicide
0/0
A black comedy set in the Polish immigrant neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn about a man selling tickets to his own suicide to save his father's li...
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Invitation to a Suicide
2016
My Dead Boyfriend
4.8/17
Mary’s life has been defined by a string of temp jobs and a half-hearted attempt to become a writer. But all that changes when she comes home to find...
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My Dead Boyfriend
2009
Everybody's Fine
6.818/947
Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at...
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Everybody's Fine
2001
The Shipping News
6.342/361
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
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The Shipping News
2014
Default
4.3/8
A news crew is taken hostage on an airplane set to take off from the Seychelles.
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Default
2006
Art School Confidential
6.1/204
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really...
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Art School Confidential
2017
Lane 1974
6.8/11
At 13 years old and the eldest of three kids, Lane struggles to keep her family together as her iconoclast mother moves without warning through the co...
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Lane 1974
2010
Lez Chat
1/1
A fake commercial for a lesbian telephone hot line. A short by Kyle Dunnigan and Tig Notaro.
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Lez Chat
2022
Ray Donovan: The Movie
6.8/191
A showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the...
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Ray Donovan: The Movie
2020
Plano B
0/0
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Plano B
2023
Squealer
5.841/41
When young women begin to disappear across a small town, a police officer and a street-smart social worker follow clues to a remote pig farm and disco...
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