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Kate Moennig
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…
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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).
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2026
Perfect
Movie
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2024
No Good Deed
TV show Gwen Delvecchio
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2023
Squealer
Movie Earline
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2022
Ray Donovan: The Movie
Movie Lena
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2020
Plan B
Movie
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2020
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
TV show Self
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2019
The L Word: Generation Q
TV show Shane McCutcheon
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2018
grown-ish
TV show Professor Hewson (voice)
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2017
Lane 1974
Movie Hallelujah
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2016
My Dead Boyfriend
Movie Zoe
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2014
Default
Movie Juliana
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2013
Ray Donovan
TV show Lena
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2012
Gone
Movie Det. Erica Lonsdale
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2011
The Lincoln Lawyer
Movie Gloria
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2010
Lez Chat
Movie Athletic Woman
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2009
Everybody's Fine
Movie Jilly
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2009
Three Rivers
TV show Dr. Miranda Foster
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2006
Dexter
TV show Michael Angelo
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2006
Art School Confidential
Movie Candace
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2005
Invitation to a Suicide
Movie Eva
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2004
Best Week Ever
TV show
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2004
The L Word
TV show Shane McCutcheon
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2003
Love the Hard Way
Movie Debbie
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2002
CSI: Miami
TV show Mary Landis
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2001
The Shipping News
Movie Grace Moosup
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2000
Young Americans
TV show Jake Pratt
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1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV show Cheryl Avery
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1990
Law & Order
TV show Melissa Cobin
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The L Word
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