Katherine Moennig

Katherine Moennig

Born: December 29, 1977
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Katherine Sian Moennig (born December 29, 1977) is an American actress best known for her role as Shane McCutcheon on The L Word, as well as Jake Pratt on Young Americans. In 2009, she starred as Dr. Miranda Foster on CBS Three Rivers. Moennig was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Broadway dancer Mary Zahn and violin maker William H. Moennig III. Moennig is of German, Scottish, and Irish ancestry.

Moennig moved to New York City at the age of 18 to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Moennig has played multiple lesbian roles in The L Word, Everybody's Fine, Art School Confidential. She has also pursued transgender roles, auditioning for the part of Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry, and playing Cheryl Avery, a young transgender woman in Law and Order. In 2007, the documentary My Address: A Look At Gay Youth Homelessness in New York was launched with Moennig in cooperation with the Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI).

Movies for Katherine Moennig...

Squealer
Title: Squealer
Character: Earline
Released: November 3, 2023
Type: Movie
When young women begin to disappear across a small town, a police officer and a street-smart social worker follow clues to a remote pig farm and discover the local butcher has been bringing his work home.
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Ray Donovan: The Movie
Title: Ray Donovan: The Movie
Character: Lena
Released: January 14, 2022
Type: Movie
A showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the Donovans find themselves drawn back to Boston to face the past. Each of them struggles to overcome their violent upbringing, but destiny dies hard, and only their fierce love for each other keeps them in the fight.
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Plano B
Title: Plano B
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: The L Word: Generation Q
Character: Shane McCutcheon
Released: December 8, 2019
Type: TV
In this sequel to The L Word, we continue to follow the intermingled lives of Bette Porter, Alice Pieszecki and Shane McCutcheon, along with a new generation of diverse, self-possessed LGBTQIA+ characters experiencing love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks and success in L.A.
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Title: grown-ish
Character: Professor Hewson
Released: January 3, 2018
Type: TV
Zoey Johnson heads to college and begins her hilarious journey to adulthood but quickly discovers that not everything goes her way once she leaves the nest.
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Title: grown-ish
Character: Professor Hewson (voice)
Released: January 3, 2018
Type: TV
Zoey Johnson heads to college and begins her hilarious journey to adulthood but quickly discovers that not everything goes her way once she leaves the nest.
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Lane 1974
Title: Lane 1974
Character: Hallelujah
Released: March 11, 2017
Type: Movie
At 13 years old and the eldest of three kids, Lane struggles to keep her family together as her iconoclast mother moves without warning through the communes and dusty back woods of Northern California.
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My Dead Boyfriend
Title: My Dead Boyfriend
Character: Zoe
Released: November 3, 2016
Type: Movie
Mary’s life has been defined by a string of temp jobs and a half-hearted attempt to become a writer. But all that changes when she comes home to find her boyfriend dead in front of the TV set. During her misadventures in trying to get rid of his ashes, Mary discovers that there was much more to her couch potato boyfriend than she ever thought imaginable.
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Default
Title: Default
Character: Juliana
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
A news crew is taken hostage on an airplane set to take off from the Seychelles.
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Title: Ray Donovan
Character: Lena
Released: June 30, 2013
Type: TV
Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.
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Gone
Title: Gone
Character: Erica Lonsdale
Released: February 23, 2012
Type: Movie
Jill Conway is trying to rebuild her life after surviving a terrifying kidnapping attempt. Though she is having a difficult time, she takes small steps toward normalcy by starting a new job and inviting her sister, Molly, to move in with her. Returning home from work one morning, Jill discovers that Molly has vanished, and she is certain that the same man who previously abducted her has returned for revenge.
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The Lincoln Lawyer
Title: The Lincoln Lawyer
Character: Gloria
Released: March 17, 2011
Type: Movie
A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.
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Lez Chat
Title: Lez Chat
Character: Athletic Woman
Released: July 9, 2010
Type: Movie
A fake commercial for a lesbian telephone hot line. A short by Kyle Dunnigan and Tig Notaro.
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Everybody's Fine
Title: Everybody's Fine
Character: Jilly
Released: December 4, 2009
Type: Movie
Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring. As he visits each one in turn, Frank finds that his children's lives are not quite as picture-perfect as they've made them out to be.
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Title: Three Rivers
Character: Dr. Miranda Foster
Released: October 4, 2009
Type: TV
Three Rivers is an American television medical drama that debuted on CBS on October 4, 2009, starring Alex O'Loughlin in the role of an infamous transplant surgeon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On November 30, 2009, after just eight episodes of the season had aired, CBS announced that Three Rivers had been pulled from their schedule with no plans to have it returned, and the series was later officially cancelled. However, the series later returned to the network on June 5, 2010 to burn off the remaining unaired episodes.
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Title: Dexter
Released: October 1, 2006
Type: TV
Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.
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Art School Confidential
Title: Art School Confidential
Character: Candace
Released: May 5, 2006
Type: Movie
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
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Invitation to a Suicide
Title: Invitation to a Suicide
Character: Eva
Released: November 9, 2004
Type: Movie
A black comedy set in the Polish immigrant neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn about a man selling tickets to his own suicide to save his father's life.
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Title: Best Week Ever
Released: January 23, 2004
Type: TV
Best Week Ever is a weekly television program on the United States cable/satellite network VH1. It started airing in 2004 and was put on hiatus in the summer of 2009. In January 2010, it was announced that the show was cancelled. On August 3, 2012, VH1 announced the return of Best Week Ever. New weekly episodes began January 18, 2013. On the show, comedians analyze the previous week's developments in pop culture, including recent happenings in entertainment and celebrity gossip. The show's tagline is, "It's everything you love, everything you missed, and all the stuff you need to see again."
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Title: The L Word
Character: Shane McCutcheon
Released: January 18, 2004
Type: TV
A group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles.
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Love the Hard Way
Title: Love the Hard Way
Character: Debbie
Released: March 27, 2003
Type: Movie
Claire, a brilliant student, seeks answers to the meaning of life in the calm of her biology laboratory. One day, she meets a mysterious young man, Jack, at the cinema, and is intrigued by his style, assurance and audacity. Apart from his artistic activities, Jack has a regular scam going, ripping off foreign businessmen with his loyal mate Charlie and two actresses. But his tough guy exterior conceals a secret passion for old books, and he dreams of writing a novel one day. Jack falls hard for Claire's purity and curiosity. An unusual romance develops between them. But Jack is scared of their growing intimacy and rejects Claire, withdrawing into his shell. Abandoned and confused, Claire gradually begins to neglect her studies and embarks on a spiraling course of self-destruction, whilst Jack, who tries to ignore her, concentrates on his criminal activities. However, a sharp detective, named Linda Fox, is following his dodgy tracks.
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Title: CSI: Miami
Released: September 23, 2002
Type: TV
CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
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The Shipping News
Title: The Shipping News
Character: Grace Moosup
Released: December 18, 2001
Type: Movie
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
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Title: Young Americans
Character: Jake Pratt
Released: July 12, 2000
Type: TV
Young Americans is an American television drama. The show explores themes of forbidden love, morality, social classes and gender roles.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Cheryl Avery
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Melissa Cobin
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: The L Word: New York
Character: Shane McCutcheon
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A reboot of the groundbreaking original series set in New York City.
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Title: No Good Deed
Character: Gwen
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Three very different families vie to buy the very same 1920s Spanish style villa that they think will solve all their problems. But as the sellers have already discovered, sometimes the home of your dreams can be a total nightmare.