Monica Keena's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Undeclared Rachel Lind… Feds Tina Walters

Main Movie Roles 2009 - Night of the Demons 2008 - Loaded 2008 - Corporate Affairs 2007 - Brooklyn Rules 2006 - Fifty Pills 2005 - Bad Girls From Valley High 2003 - Freddy vs. Jason 2002 - Orange County 2000 - Crime and Punishment in Suburbia 1998 - Strike! 1997 - The Devil's Advocate 1995 - While You Were Sleeping

BIOGRAPHY:

Monica Keena was born in New Jersey on May 28, 1979, to Bill and Mary Keena and was little sister to Samantha, the Keenas' first daughter. Growing up, Monica shone in all things arts. Dance, singing, acting, and drawing. At 13, Keena enrolled in the prestigious LaGuardia school for acting and made it. At age 15, she had a small role in her first film, and that was followed by a series of TV movies such as First Daughter (1999) (TV) and the A Promise Kept: The Oksana Baiul Story (1994) (TV). Monica starred in her first movie, Ripe (1996), at 16 and considers that her favorite role as of now. In 1998, she premiered on the WB's "Dawson's Creek" (1998) as truth telling Abby Morgan and later left the show when she "got bored playing one character."

Today Monica continues to make movies like Freddy vs. Jason (2003), Cheer Up, and Fifty Pills (2006). In her free time, she enjoys skating.


TRIVIA:

• She has performed at the Heights Players in Brooklyn in Little Women (as Beth) and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe as Lucy (alongside actor 'Tim Realbuto' (qv)).
• Sister Samantha is two years older.
• The school she attended in Brooklyn Heights, Saint Ann's, was recently named #1 school in the country by The Wall Street Journal.
• As a young child, she was always drawing, painting, dancing and singing.
• Posed for Maxim, Stuff Magazine and FHM.
• Favorite shows are _"The Simpsons" (1989)_ (qv) and _"Charmed" (1998)_ (qv).
• Character Rachel Lindquist was based on her.
• Has been rollerskating and skatebording since a young child.