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Monica Barbaro (born June 18, 1990) is an American actress. Her major roles include season 2 of UnREAL, The Good Cop, and Top Gun: Maverick.

Monica Barbaro
Born	(1990-06-18) June 18, 1990 (age 32) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2013–present

Early life

Barbaro was born on June 18, 1990,[1][2] in San Francisco. She grew up in Mill Valley, California, where she graduated from Tamalpais High School in 2007.[2][3] Her parents divorced when she was a child.[3] Barbaro started dancing at an early age and would go on to study ballet. While taking electives in acting, she completed a degree in dance at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City.[4] After graduating in 2010, she decided to pursue acting and returned to San Francisco.[5] There, she attended the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school.[3]

Career

Barbaro gained attention in 2013 for her lead role in It's Not About the Nail, a viral comedy short about communication in a marriage.[6][7] Her first major television role was portraying the character of Yael on the second season of the Lifetime television series UnREAL.[8] Following UnREAL, Barbaro joined the cast of NBC legal drama Chicago Justice, an entry in Dick Wolf's Chicago franchise,[9] in which she portrayed Anna Valdez.[10] In 2018, Barbaro also played Cora Vasquez on Netflix's The Good Cop, alongside Josh Groban and Tony Danza. Between 2018 and 2019, Barbaro had a recurring part in the ABC sitcom Splitting Up Together.[11] In the 2022 blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick, Barbaro portrayed Lieutenant Natasha "Phoenix" Trace, a naval aviator.[12] Though it may have taken a back seat to her acting career, Barbaro shared that dancing is finding its way back into her life. "I'm bringing it all back because I realized I'm not getting any younger, so if there's a time to break out my dancing, it should be before it's too late."[13] In addition to a dance scene in At Midnight, scheduled for release in late 2022, she also claimed to be currently working on a movie heavily featuring dancing as a core plot point.[14]

Filmography

Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Bullish	Eva
2021	The Cathedral	Lydia Damrosch
2022	Top Gun: Maverick	Natasha "Phoenix" Trace
	I'm Charlie Walker	Peggy
	At Midnight	Sophie Wilder	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Stitchers	Brenda 'Bentley' Miller	Episode: "The Root of All Evil"
2016	Hawaii Five-0	Ella Koha	Episode: "Ke Koa Lokomaika'i"
2016	Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life	Attractive Girl	Episode "How to Survive Working with Friends"
2016	Unreal	Yael	Main role (season 2), 10 episodes
2016	Notorious	Chloe Edwards	Episode: "Tell Me a Secret"
2016–2017	Chicago P.D.	Assistant State's Attorney Anna Valdez	4 episodes
2017	Chicago Justice	Assistant State's Attorney Anna Valdez	Main role
2017	Lethal Weapon	Nora Cooper	Episode: "Flight Risk"
2018	The Good Cop	Cora Vasquez	Main role
2018–2019	Splitting Up Together	Lisa Apple	Recurring role
2019	Stumptown	Liz Melero	4 episodes
TBA	Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas	Meagan (voice)	Upcoming
TBA	Utap	Emma Brunner	Main role

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2023	Forspoken	Auden (voice)	[15]

References

External links

• Monica Barbaro at IMDb
• It's Not About the Nail on YouTube

На других языках

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[de] Monica Barbaro

Monica Barbaro (geboren am 18. Juni 1990 in San Francisco) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.[1]

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