- Born
- Birth nameKatherine Sian Moennig
- Nickname
- Kate
- Height1.73 m
- Born on December 29, 1977 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US as Katherine Sian Moennig, she is an American actress and producer, best known for the role of Shane McCutcheon in L Word (2004). Her father was William H. Moennig III and her mother was Mary Zahn, a Broadway dancer. She is of Irish and German ancestry. At 18 she moved to New York City, where she studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 2000 she got her first TV role as Jacqueline 'Jake' Pratt in Young Americans (2000). From 2004 to 2009 she played the iconic role of Shane McCutcheon in "The L Word". 2006 marked her Off-Broadway debut in "Guardians", in which he played opposite Lee Pace. From 2013 to she played an assistant to the eponymous character in Ray Donovan (2013). In 2019 she came back to the role of Shane in The L Word: Generation Q (2019). She's been married to a Brazilian film director and musician Ana Rezende since 2017.- IMDb mini biography by: Evil_Herbivore
- SpouseAna Rezende(2017 - present)
- ParentsMary ZahnWilliam H Moenning III
- RelativesHarry Danner(Aunt or Uncle)Gwyneth Paltrow(Cousin)Hillary Danner(Cousin)Blythe Danner(Aunt or Uncle)Jake Paltrow(Cousin)
- Deep, husky voice
- Frequently plays androgynous characters
- Black hair
- Niece of producer Bruce Paltrow, actress Blythe Danner and actor Harry Danner. First cousin of director Jake Paltrow and actresses Hillary Danner and Gwyneth Paltrow.
- 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.
- After years of speculation about her sexuality, she officially came out as a lesbian in 2019 and revealed that she had gotten married two years previously to Brazilian musician Ana Rezende.
- Mother, Mary Zahn, is a Broadway dancer and father, William H. Moennig III was a violin maker.
- 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 trans woman in an episode of New York - Unité spéciale (1999) (Season 4, episode 21, "Fallacy").
- [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"
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