Kate Moennig

Known for ActingBorn 1977-12-29 (age 48)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).Read more

Movies & web series

Bottomless Brunch at Colman's

Plan B

Dexter

grown-ish

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The L Word: Generation Q

The L Word

CSI: Miami

Ray Donovan

Young Americans

The Lincoln Lawyer

Law & Order

Three Rivers

Invitation to a Suicide

Ray Donovan: The Movie

Lane 1974

Everybody's Fine

No Good Deed

The Shipping News

Love the Hard Way

Gone

Art School Confidential

Squealer

Best Week Ever

My Dead Boyfriend

Default

Lez Chat

Perfect