Monica Barbaro

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.

Most Known For

Crime 101

as Maya

Chicago P.D.

as Anna Valdez

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest

Hawaii Five-0

as Ella Koha

Lethal Weapon

as Nora Cooper

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Guest

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

as Self - Guest

Top Gun: Maverick

as Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

as Brandy

The Oscars

as Self

FUBAR

as Emma Brunner

A Complete Unknown

as Joan Baez

UnREAL

as Yael

Stumptown

as Liz Melero

Stitchers

as Brenda 'Bentley' Miller

Chicago Justice

as Anna Valdez

Hemingway & Gellhorn

as Tropicana Dancer (uncredited)

Splitting Up Together

as Lisa Apple

The Good Cop

as Cora Vasquez