Monica Potter Wallpapers

Monica Potter Wallpapers

Monica Potter - actress; biography; photo wallpapers: Monica Potter (born
June 30, 1971) is an American film and television actress. Potter, one
of four daughters, was born Monica Gregg Brokaw in Cleveland, Ohio to
an Irish American Catholic family. Her father, Paul Brokaw, was an
inventor who invented the first flame-resistant car wax, and her
mother, Nancy, was a secretary. During her childhood, she was a part of
the St. Jerome Parish in Cleveland, and attended the local elementary
school, as well as Villa Angela Catholic School for Girls, before
graduating from Euclid High School. She also spent part of her early
years in Arab, Alabama. Potter had wanted to be an actress since her
childhood, as well as a nun. At the age of twelve, Potter started
modeling and appearing in commercials in Chicago and Miami, before
deciding to pursue an acting career. Her very first role on television
was as a "Dalina" in the English version of the Peruvian TV show
Nubeluz. Then she found a role on the daytime soap opera, The Young and
the Restless. She has since appeared in several feature films,
including Con Air (playing the wife of Nicolas Cage's character) and
starring opposite Robin Williams in Patch Adams. In 1998, she also
played the love interest, and eventual girlfriend of Steve Prefontaine,
in the movie Without Limits. In 2001, she had two major roles,
co-starring with Freddie Prinze Jr. in Head Over Heels, and with Morgan
Freeman in the thriller Along Came a Spider. She was a series regular
on Boston Legal but left after the first season. Adam Duritz of
Counting Crows wrote the song "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" about her after
seeing her in a film. This led to a relationship between the two.
Potter was married to Tom Potter from 1990 to 1998 and they have two
sons. She married Daniel Christopher Allison, an orthopedic surgeon, in
June of 2005. Potter and Allison had their first child, a daughter
named Molly Brigid Allison, on August 3, 2005.


Potter was named "Best Movie Star Loyal to Cleveland" by
ClevelandScene.com for her insistence on keeping her family in the Ohio
city even after Hollywood success. "It's a great place to raise kids. I
had a very happy childhood there, growing up on a special street where
everyone knew everyone," said Potter in an interview with Maxim
magazine in March 2001.

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