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Monica Barbaro

Monica Barbaro

Born: 1990-06-17 • San Francisco, California, USA

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).

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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Filmography
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One Night Only
2026
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses poster
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2026 • Madame de Tourvel
Crime 101 poster
Crime 101
2026 • Maya
On the Red Carpet Presents: "A Complete Unknown" poster
On the Red Carpet Presents: "A Complete Unknown"
2025 • Self
A Complete Unknown poster
A Complete Unknown
2024 • Joan Baez
At Midnight poster
At Midnight
2023 • Sophie Wilder
The Cathedral poster
The Cathedral
2022 • Lydia Damrosch
I'm Charlie Walker poster
I'm Charlie Walker
2022 • Peggy
Top Gun: Maverick poster
Top Gun: Maverick
2022 • Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace
The Head Thieves poster
The Head Thieves
2018 • Aerobics Video Girl #2
Bullish poster
Bullish
2013 • Eva
It's Not About the Nail poster
It's Not About the Nail
2013
Hemingway & Gellhorn poster
Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012 • Tropicana Dancer (uncredited)
Artificial poster
Artificial
— • Mira Murati