Actor
Monica Barbaro
Born June 17, 1989 in San Francisco, California, USA14 films
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).
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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.
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First watchTop Gun: Maverick20228.2as Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' TraceAfter more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a…View filmEssential films
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14 films as actor- 2027Untitled Ocean's Prequel
- 2026ArtificialMira Murati
- 2026One Night OnlyAllie
- 2026National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons DangereusesMadame de Tourvel
- 2026Crime 101Maya
- 2024A Complete UnknownJoan Baez
- 2023At MidnightSophie Wilder
- 2022The CathedralLydia Damrosch
- 2022I'm Charlie WalkerPeggy
- 2022Top Gun: MaverickLt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace
- 2018The Head ThievesAerobics Video Girl #2
- 2013BullishEva
- 2013It's Not About the Nail
- 2012Hemingway & GellhornTropicana Dancer (uncredited)