Katherine Moennig Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Katherine Sian Moennig is an American actress best known for her role as Shane McCutcheon on The L Word, as well as Jake Pratt on Young Americans. As of 2014, she plays Lena in the Showtime series Ray Donovan.
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TV Shows
Three Rivers, The L Word, Young Americans, Ray Donovan
Star Sign
Capricorn
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Trademark
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Black hair
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Frequently plays androgynous characters
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Deep, husky voice
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[on what she's learned from playing the role of Jake Pratt on Young Americans (2000)] "The clothes are comfortable...but on a deeper level I learned that the competition between boys and girls isn't as strong as between women"
Mother, Mary Zahn, is a Broadway dancer and father is a violin maker.
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Has German and Irish ancestry.
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She's trained in fencing, and says that if she wasn't an actress, she'd be a marine biologist or in the FBI. As a little girl, she wanted to be a doorman.
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She is known for choosing non-traditional roles, usually those that involve gender-bending. These roles include Jacqueline 'Jake' Pratt in the television series Young Americans (2000), and a male-to-female transsexual in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) (Season 4, episode 21, "Fallacy").
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She has said that most of her friends growing up were boys, and that she was a huge tomboy. In her words: 'I had the biggest big wheels'.