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Katherine Sian Moennig (born December 29, 1977) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress known for her role as Shane McCutcheon
Shane McCutcheon

Shane McCutcheon is a fictional character on the Showtime television network series The L Word, shown nationally in the United States. She is played by the United States actress Katherine Moennig, a cousin of Gwyneth Paltrow....
 on The L Word
The L Word

The L Word was an American television drama series on Showtime that portrays the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual and transgender men and women and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles Area city of West Hollywood, California....
, as well as Jacqueline Pratt on Young Americans
Young Americans (TV series)

Young Americans was an American television drama on The WB network created by Steven Antin. The show debuted in 2000 as a summer replacement for, and spin-off from, another Columbia TriStar Television production; Dawson's Creek in three episodes at the end of that series' third season....
.

Personal life
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a U.S. state located in the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States....
, she is the daughter of Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 dancer Mary Zahn and violin maker William Moennig. She is also the niece of actress Blythe Danner
Blythe Danner

Blythe Katharine Danner is an United States Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow....
 and cousin of Oscar
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 winner Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow born September 27, 1972) is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe- and double Screen Actors Guild Award- winning United States actress....
.

Moennig is of German
Germans

The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....
, Scottish
Scottish people

The Scots people are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland.Historically, as an ethnic group, they emerged from an amalgamation of Celts, Picts, Gaels and Brythons....
 and Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 descent.






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Katherine Sian Moennig (born December 29, 1977) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress known for her role as Shane McCutcheon
Shane McCutcheon

Shane McCutcheon is a fictional character on the Showtime television network series The L Word, shown nationally in the United States. She is played by the United States actress Katherine Moennig, a cousin of Gwyneth Paltrow....
 on The L Word
The L Word

The L Word was an American television drama series on Showtime that portrays the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual and transgender men and women and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles Area city of West Hollywood, California....
, as well as Jacqueline Pratt on Young Americans
Young Americans (TV series)

Young Americans was an American television drama on The WB network created by Steven Antin. The show debuted in 2000 as a summer replacement for, and spin-off from, another Columbia TriStar Television production; Dawson's Creek in three episodes at the end of that series' third season....
.

Personal life


Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a U.S. state located in the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States....
, she is the daughter of Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 dancer Mary Zahn and violin maker William Moennig. She is also the niece of actress Blythe Danner
Blythe Danner

Blythe Katharine Danner is an United States Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow....
 and cousin of Oscar
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 winner Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow born September 27, 1972) is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe- and double Screen Actors Guild Award- winning United States actress....
.

Moennig is of German
Germans

The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....
, Scottish
Scottish people

The Scots people are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland.Historically, as an ethnic group, they emerged from an amalgamation of Celts, Picts, Gaels and Brythons....
 and Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 descent. She is called "Alt.Gwyn" by her friends, because she and Paltrow are so unlike each other. "Alt.Gwyn" means "Alt. Gwyneth" or "Alternate Gwyneth".

Although there has been much speculation surrounding Moennig's sexual orientation due to the on-screen lesbian and genderqueer roles she has taken, in a 2000 interview with Rebecca Traister of the New York Observer, Moennig claimed to be heterosexual and that she is dating a Hollywood actor named Cliff Hiensman. However, her L Word costar Jennifer Beals muddied the issue in an interview with The Advocate. When asked, "Do people still assume that you have to be a lesbian to play one on TV?", Beals responded with, "Not at all... I heard a rumor that somebody... assumed I was bisexual. Which was a huge compliment to me, because often I will go to Leisha or Kate or Ilene or Rose Troche most often and ask, 'OK, is this the right thing to do? Is this not the right thing to do? Am I going to seem like a total chump if I do this?" Moennig is rumored to be dating Clementine Ford.

Career

Moennig moved to New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 at the age of 18 to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts
American Academy of Dramatic Arts

The American Academy of Dramatic Arts is a fully accredited two-year College or university school of music with campuses located at 120 Madison Avenue in New York City and 1336 North La Brea Avenue in Hollywood, California ....
. There she began a modeling
Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who poses or who is displayed for the purpose of art, fashion, or other product s and advertising....
 career, and also performed on stage.

In 1999, she had the central role of the Our Lady Peace
Our Lady Peace

Our Lady Peace, often abbreviated OLP, is a Canada alternative rock band consisting of Raine Maida, Duncan Coutts, Jeremy Taggart and Steve Mazur....
 video
Music video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
 "Is Anybody Home?"

Her first major role was in the television series Young Americans
Young Americans (TV series)

Young Americans was an American television drama on The WB network created by Steven Antin. The show debuted in 2000 as a summer replacement for, and spin-off from, another Columbia TriStar Television production; Dawson's Creek in three episodes at the end of that series' third season....
, playing Jake Pratt, a girl who enters the Rawley Boys Academy by passing as a boy and ends up falling in love with Hamilton (Ian Somerhalder
Ian Somerhalder

Ian Joseph Somerhalder is an American actor, Model and Film producer, probably most notable for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost and as Paul Denton in the film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' The Rules of Attraction....
), the Dean's son.

She has played many lesbian and transgender roles. She auditioned for the part of Brandon Teena
Brandon Teena

Brandon Teena was a transman who was raped and murdered. Teena was born biologically female but lived as male, making him a trans man; his later life and death were the subject of the Academy Award-winning 1999 film Boys Don't Cry , which was based on the documentary film The Brandon Teena Story....
 in Boys Don't Cry
Boys Don't Cry (film)

Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 in film independent film drama film based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a transman who was raped and murdered on December 31, 1993 by his male friends after they found out he had vagina....
 - that ended up going to actress Hilary Swank
Hilary Swank

Hilary Ann Swank is an United States actress. Her Hollywood film career began with a small part in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and then a major part in The Next Karate Kid , where she played Julie Pierce, the first female prot?g? of the sensei Mr....
. She played a pre-operative transsexual in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American drama television program about the Special Victims Unit in a fictional version of the 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department....
 (episode "Fallacy
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 4)

The fourth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was originally aired between September 27, 2002 and May 16 ,2003. It consists of 25 episodes in total....
"). She appeared as a lesbian artist--and a former lover of Sophia Myles
Sophia Myles

Sophia Jane Myles is a British film and television actor....
' character--in Terry Zwigoff
Terry Zwigoff

Terry Zwigoff is an American filmmaker based in San Francisco. He became well-known for two popular small budget films, both arising out of the world of underground comics or alternative comics: the documentary Crumb , about underground comics figure Robert Crumb, and the feature Ghost World , adapted from a story in Dan Clowes co...
's 2006 Art School Confidential.

On April 12, 2006, Moennig made her Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway

Off Broadway theater is an umbrella term for a defined set of Play , musical theater or revues performed in New York City. Originally referring to the location of a venue and its productions on a street intersecting Broadway in Manhattan's Theatre District, New York, the hub of the theater industry in the United States, the term later becam...
 debut, opposite Lee Pace
Lee Pace

Lee Grinner Pace is an Emmy Award-nominated and two-time Golden Globe-nominated American actor. Pace has been featured in film, stage and television....
, in Guardians
Guardians (play)

Guardians is an Off-Broadway play written by Peter Morris. It debuted at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning the "Fringe First Award" and made its New York debut on April 11, 2006 at The Culture Project....
, by Peter Morris. In it, she plays "American Girl" - a young United States Army
United States Army

The United States Army is the branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for Army operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S....
 soldier from West Virginia
West Virginia

West Virginia is a U.S. state in the Appalachian, Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia on the southeast, Kentucky on the southwest, Ohio on the northwest, and Pennsylvania and Maryland on the northeast....
 who becomes a scapegoat
Scapegoat

The scapegoat was a goat that was driven off into the wilderness as part of the ceremonies of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in Judaism during the times of the Temple in Jerusalem....
 in a scandal involving abuse at an Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
i prison. The story is loosely based on that of Lynndie England
Lynndie England

Lynndie Rana England is a former United States Army reservist who served in the 372nd Military Police Company. She was one of several military personnel convicted in 2005 by the Army Court-martial in connection with the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad during the Post-invasion Iraq, 2003?present....
.

In 2008, Moennig played the role of Mary Landis, a suspect in season 6 episode 19 of CSI:Miami.

Filmography


Film



Television



External links


  • at The L Word
    The L Word

    The L Word was an American television drama series on Showtime that portrays the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual and transgender men and women and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles Area city of West Hollywood, California....
     official site