Katherine Moennig

Trivia

• Has German and Irish ancestry.
• 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.
• 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, and a male-to-female transsexual in an episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (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'.
• Is mostly known as Shane McCutcheon in the "The L Word" (2004).
• Mostly known for her role as Jake Pratt in "Young Americans" (2000).
• Had the central role in the music video for the Canadian band Our Lady Peace, the song was "Is Anybody Home".

Quotes

• "My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too."
• "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."
• "A few people want to see you."
• "I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing."
• "Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience."
• "I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that."
• "I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television."
• "What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person."
• "I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don’t personally seek them out, but they find me."
• "I like my hands. Nice long fingers. Strong. They serve me well."