Trivia

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").

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'.

Was roommates with Leisha Hailey and Mia Kirshner while filming L Word (2004). Kirshner, Hailey, and Moennig lived down the street from Jennifer Beals' house.

Had the central role in the music video for the Canadian band Our Lady Peace, the song was "Is Anybody Home".

Auditioned for Boys Don't Cry (1999).

Best known as Shane McCutcheon in the L Word (2004) and Jake Pratt in Young Americans (2000).

Alumna of the AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Class of 1998.

Her grandfather, William Moennig, hailed from Markneukirchen, a little German town famous for musical instruments.

Has German, Scottish and Irish ancestry.

Currently lives in Los Angeles, California (2007)

Her first role as an actor was in a children's theater production of Winnie the Pooh, where she starred as Christopher Robin.