Monica Potter - Biography

Last Editor: lola_vt_				Monica Potter Biography -   Name : Monica Potter Birth Date : June 30, 1971 Birth Place : Cleveland, Ohio, USA Birth Name : Monica Louise Brokaw Height : 5' 7 Education : Villa Angela Catholic School for girls Nationality : American Profession : Actress Claim to fame : as Sharon Collins on TV Series: The Young and the Restless (1973)

Monica Potter Trivia -

The song Mrs. Potter's Lullaby, by Counting Crows, was written about her. Puts castor oil on her eyelashes and eyebrows to make them thicker Is a vegetarian Many among the Monica fans believe she looks a great deal like Julia Roberts. Monica is pregnant at 18, and marries her boyfriend. Thought she had good fashion sense - until she met her supermodel co-stars Tomiko Fraser and Sarah O'Hare. Her real name is NOT Potter but Monica Gregg Brokaw. Monica has a Shamrock tattoo on her left ankle. Monica's most embarrassing moment was when she was invited to a Hollywood soiree and since she has never been invited to a soiree before, she tried hard to look cool and did some pretty silly things. She crept up behind people’s backs and made funny faces. Modeled in both Chicago and Miami before she decided to try out acting. Started her acting career on the daytime soap opera, The Young And The Restless. While filming CON AIR, Monica was the only girl in the cast so she had to hang out with the guys, including visiting a strip club just to see... Is from Cleveland, Ohio and still lives there because it is a great place to raise children. She lives right down the street from the house where she grew up.

Monica Potter Detailed Biography -

Monica Lousie Potter was born on June 30th, 1971 in Cleveland, Ohio. She grew up just off of picturesque Lake Erie in a blue-collar Roman Catholic family. Her father was the inventor of the first flame-resistant car wax, but never cashed in on the invention's profits, being a salaried inventor. While not born with a silver spoon, Monica grew up in a happy family with three other siblings. Miss Potter first dipped her toe in the ocean of show business back in Cleveland. Her father sent a blossoming 12-year-old Monica's photograph to a local modeling agency, which hired her immediately. Her family soon encouraged her to pursue a career as an actress. When she was 18, she moved to Miami, Florida, and landed a job on a children's show that shot in Peru, which she described as the "disaster of disasters." She gave birth to her first child a year later when she was nineteen; she hasn't publicly disclosed the identity of the father. When she was 24, Monica moved on to Hollywood with a small child in tow and another on the way, where her first job was on the soap opera, The Young and the Restless. Soon she landed a role in the 1996 film, Bulletproof, which she followed up with the straight-to-video Richard Grieco and Yasmine Bleeth juggernaut, Heaven or Vegas. For years she was a typical struggling actress in B-films and low-paying jobs. She had her first break through in 1997's Con Air with Nicolas Cage. She soon landed roles in box-office smashes like Patch Adams and the recent Along Came a Spider, and had the chance to look pretty in the Freddy Prinze Jr. flick, 'Head Over Heels'. Monica also won critical acclaim in the 1998 film, 'Without Limits' about the track star, Steve Prefontaine. Monica has proven herself a hard-luck kid who has risen from a small town to the gleaming towers of Hollywood fame. While not quite a household name yet, be on the lookout for this blonde to take over your entertainment universe.