Michelle Lynn Monaghan was born on March 23, 1976, in Winthrop, Iowa, USA. She is the youngest of three children and the only daughter of Sharon and Bob-John Monaghan. After graduating from high school in Iowa, she studied journalism for three years at Chicago's Columbia College. In order to pay for college, she took a job as a model for catalogues. In 1999, she quit college and moved to New York to work full-time as a fashion model. At that time she traveled around the world with stints on ...[Read Story]