Biography
Monica Barbaro is an American actress. Born in San Francisco and raised in Mill Valley, California, she trained in ballet from an early age and earned a BFA in dance from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She began acting after college, studying at schools in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Her early television roles included appearances in Stitchers (2015), Unreal (2016), Chicago P.D. (2016–2017) and Chicago Justice (2017). She gained wider recognition for her supporting role as Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace in Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and her lead in the Netflix series FUBAR (2023–2025). Barbaro portrayed Joan Baez in the 2024 biopic A Complete Unknown, earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She played Maya in Crime 101 (2026) and made her stage debut in a 2026 West End revival of Les Liaisons dangereuses.
