Katherine Moennig

Katherine Sian Moennig (born 29 December 1977) is an American actress.

She played Michael Angelo, a tattoo artist, on Showtime’s series DEXTER.

Appearances
Season Five:
 * "First Blood"

Career
Films

Her movie credits include roles in The Ice People (2000 Short film); Slo-Mo (2001 Short film), Love the Hard Way (2001); The Shipping News (2001); Invitation to a Suicide (2004); Art School Confidential (2006); Everybody's Fine (2009); Lez Chat (2010 Short film); The Lincoln Lawyer (2011);1); Gone (2012); Default (2014); My Dead Boyfriend (2016); and Lane 1974 (2017).

Television

Her TV credits include appearances on Young Americans; Law & Order; Law & Order: SVU; The L Word; CSI: Miami; Three Rivers; and Ray Donovan.

Theatre

She has appeared on stage in Guardians; As You Like It; The Theory of Total Blame; Comedy of Art; Morning in the City; Love Letters; The Shadow Box; The Murder of Lidice; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; A Late Show; Burn This; Alone at the Beach; Lovers; and Anna K.

Personal Life
She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Broadway dancer Mary Zahn and William H. Moennig III. Her father's maternal half sister is actress Blythe Danner, thus she is a cousin of Gwyneth Paltrow. Moennig moved to New York City at the age of eighteen to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She owns an apartment in Los Angeles, California.

Trivia

 * Her nickname is Kate.
 * She's trained in fencing.
 * If she wasn't an actress, she'd like to be a marine biologist or in the FBI.
 * Her ancestry is German, Scottish, and Irish.
 * She is non-religious.
 * In 2017, Moennig narrated her first audiobook, The Late Show by Michael Connelly.