---
name: "Monica Barbaro"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/monica-barbaro"
fi1m_id: "monica-barbaro"
imdb_id: "nm4834815"
tmdb_id: 1525043
wikidata_id: "Q26703036"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 June 1989"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 65
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-24T21:27:51.870215+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Monica Barbaro

## Identity

Monica Barbaro

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/monica-barbaro
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** monica-barbaro
- **IMDb ID:** nm4834815
- **TMDB ID:** 1525043
- **Wikidata ID:** Q26703036
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Barbaro, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26703036, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4834815/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1525043

Actor. Born 17 June 1989 in San Francisco, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 June 1989, San Francisco, California, USA
- **Active:** 2022–present
- **Also known as:** مونیکا باربارو, Monica Maria Barbaro
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 65, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 65 to 68 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Action 1, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Music 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,718m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Barbaro, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26703036, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4834815/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1525043

## Coming up

- *Artificial* (2026-12-25), as Mira Murati
- *Untitled Ocean's Prequel* (2027-06-23)

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Top Gun: Maverick*](https://film.one/film/top-gun-maverick.md) (80)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Crime 101*](https://film.one/film/crime-101.md) (67)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Monica Barbaro

> Monica Barbaro gives Joan Baez a firmness the writing only partly supplies, and brings warmth to romantic comedy without much help from the jokes. We like her work more consistently than we like the films around it.

In *A Complete Unknown* (2024), Monica Barbaro's Joan Baez tells Dylan off and means it. James Mangold's film is often content to wait for the next song, but she gives the conversations a little urgency. Her Baez is sharper than the dialogue, and her singing is a pleasure in itself. We enjoyed her impatience because she makes the objections to Dylan sound personal, rather than inserted to give him something to answer.

Her breakthrough came as Phoenix in *Top Gun: Maverick* (2022), followed by the romantic comedy *At Midnight* (2023) before she played Baez. Flight training and G-force work for the action film gave way to months of vocal and guitar lessons for *A Complete Unknown*. That preparation pays off in singing that holds our attention even when Mangold's drama does not. She gives us a musician we can listen to with pleasure and someone whose judgement we take seriously.

In *One Night Only* (2026), she has a different problem: a romantic comedy whose annual sex exemption is both grim and insufficiently funny. As Allie, she brings warmth to the search for connection, and Callum Turner's Owen is an agreeable partner. We believe that these two want to spend time together, which is more than we believe in the circumstances invented to keep them busy. Their ease is the film's main pleasure, but it cannot make the patchy jokes work.

We would like a comedy that trusts her connection with a partner enough to dispense with the elaborate rules. *One Night Only* keeps demonstrating the appeal of that simpler film, then returning to a premise its jokes cannot support. Baez suggests something tougher is available too, provided a director gives her lines that match the firmness with which she delivers them. Start with *A Complete Unknown* for the singing, and accept that the drama is less rewarding.

## 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*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Crime 101* (2026), Fi1m 67, as Maya — [page](https://film.one/film/crime-101.md)
- *One Night Only* (2026), Fi1m 46, as Allie — [page](https://film.one/film/one-night-only.md)
- *A Complete Unknown* (2024), Fi1m 68, as Joan Baez — [page](https://film.one/film/a-complete-unknown.md)
- *Top Gun: Maverick* (2022), Fi1m 80, as Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace — [page](https://film.one/film/top-gun-maverick.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Untitled Ocean's Prequel* (2027), Actor
- *Artificial* (2026), as Mira Murati
- *One Night Only* (2026), as Allie — Fi1m 46, [page](https://film.one/film/one-night-only.md)
- *National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses* (2026), as Madame de Tourvel
- *Crime 101* (2026), as Maya — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/crime-101.md)
- *A Complete Unknown* (2024), as Joan Baez — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/a-complete-unknown.md)
- *FUBAR* (2023), series, as Emma Brunner
- *At Midnight* (2023), as Sophie Wilder
- *The Cathedral* (2022), as Lydia Damrosch
- *I'm Charlie Walker* (2022), as Peggy
- *Top Gun: Maverick* (2022), as Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/top-gun-maverick.md)
- *Stumptown* (2019), series, as Liz Melero
- *The Head Thieves* (2018), as Aerobics Video Girl #2
- *The Good Cop* (2018), series, as Cora Vasquez
- *Splitting Up Together* (2018), series, as Lisa Apple
- *Chicago Justice* (2017), series, as Anna Valdez
- *Notorious* (2016), series, as Chloe Edwards
- *Lethal Weapon* (2016), series, as Nora Cooper
- *Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life* (2016), series, as Attractive Girl
- *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend* (2015), series, as Brandy — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/crazy-ex-girlfriend.md)
- *Stitchers* (2015), series, as Brenda 'Bentley' Miller
- *UnREAL* (2015), series, as Yael
- *Chicago P.D.* (2014), series, as Anna Valdez
- *Bullish* (2013), as Eva
- *It's Not About the Nail* (2013), Actor
- *Hemingway & Gellhorn* (2012), as Tropicana Dancer (uncredited)
- *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), series, as Ella Koha — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md)

## Gallery

- ![Monica Barbaro at The Complete Unknown premiere, London 2025](https://film.one/media/person/7150/gallery-5db12d5c7251.jpg) Monica Barbaro at The Complete Unknown premiere, London 2025 — Amy Martin Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Monica_Barbaro.jpg/1280px-Monica_Barbaro.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Monica Barbaro](https://film.one/media/person/7150/gallery-7ef8043aea18.jpg) Monica Barbaro — Amy Martin Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Monica_Barbaro_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![OAKLAND, California (Oct. 07, 2022) Lt. Cmdr. Griffen Stangel, assigned to the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, speaks with Monica Barbaro, ](https://film.one/media/person/7150/gallery-f8f2e988e073.jpg) OAKLAND, California (Oct. 07, 2022) Lt. Cmdr. Griffen Stangel, assigned to the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, speaks with Monica Barbaro,  — Petty Officer 2nd Class Cody Deccio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Monica_Barbaro_2022_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Monica Barbaro à l'avant-première d'"Un parfait inconnu" au Grand Rex, le 15 janvier 2025.](https://film.one/media/person/7150/gallery-0b5968190826.jpg) Monica Barbaro à l'avant-première d'"Un parfait inconnu" au Grand Rex, le 15 janvier 2025. — ManoSolo13241324, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Monica_Barbaro_2025.jpg/1280px-Monica_Barbaro_2025.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Monica Barbaro](https://film.one/media/person/7150/gallery-1226598780b0.jpg) Monica Barbaro — Image via TMDB
- ![Monica Barbaro](https://film.one/media/person/7150/gallery-b9ec46471805.jpg) Monica Barbaro — Image via TMDB
- ![Monica Barbaro](https://film.one/media/person/7150/gallery-3f3d17a5df32.jpg) Monica Barbaro — Image via TMDB
- ![Monica Barbaro à l'avant-première d'"Un parfait inconnu" au Grand Rex, le 15 janvier 2025.](https://film.one/media/person/7150/gallery-690223144ed2.jpg) Monica Barbaro à l'avant-première d'"Un parfait inconnu" au Grand Rex, le 15 janvier 2025. — ManoSolo13241324, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Monica_Barbaro_2025_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Monica_Barbaro_2025_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Monica Barbaro](https://film.one/media/person/7150/gallery-ef390a4aa342.jpg) Monica Barbaro — Image via TMDB
- ![Monica Barbaro](https://film.one/media/person/7150/gallery-bda75c64368f.jpg) Monica Barbaro — Image via TMDB
- ![Monica Barbaro](https://film.one/media/person/7150/gallery-045d0525bc6e.jpg) Monica Barbaro — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2025: Best Supporting Actress (nominated), for *A Complete Unknown*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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