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Monica Barbaro
Biography
Monica Maria Barbaro (born June 17, 1990) is an American actress. She began training in ballet early, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance from New York University. She began acting soon after college, taking on minor roles in film and television in the 2010s, before her first significant 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.
Known For
Top Gun: Maverick
as Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace
A Complete Unknown
as Joan Baez
Hemingway & Gellhorn
as Tropicana Dancer (uncredited)
At Midnight
as Sophie Wilder
Crime 101
I'm Charlie Walker
as Peggy
Bullish
as Eva
On the Red Carpet Presents: "A Complete Unknown"
as Self
The Head Thieves
as Aerobics Video Girl #2
The Cathedral
as Lydia Damrosch
