Michelle Monaghan enjoyed a successful modeling career with plans to pursue a career in journalism before a full-time acting career became an option for her. She'd made some minor appearances on TV shows such as Young Americans and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as some nationally run commercials, but it was a recurring role on the acclaimed series Boston Public in 2002 that really opened doors for the young actress. Over the next few years, she scored big-screen parts in It Runs in the Family, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and The Bourne Supremacy. She shortly thereafter scored a role alongside Charlize Theron and Frances McDormand in North Country and a starring role in the black comedy Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang with Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer. In 2005, she appeared as the love interest of Tom Cruise in the hotly anticipated Mission: Impossible III, making her a far more familiar face and name. She immediately signed on to next appear in the Ben Affleck film Gone, Baby, Gone.

Filmography:

2000 Young Americans
2001 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2001 Perfume
2002 Unfaithful
2002 Hack
2002-2003 Boston Public
2003 It Runs in the Family
2004 Winter Solstice
2004 Bourne Supremacy, TheThe Bourne Supremacy
2005 Constantine
2005 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2005 Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005 North Country
2006 Mission: Impossible III
2007 Gone Baby Gone
2007 Heartbreak Kid, TheThe Heartbreak Kid
2008 Trucker
2008 Made of Honor
2008 Eagle Eye
2010 Funny People
2010 Due Date
2011 Source Code
2011 Machine Gun Preacher