- Niece of producer Bruce Paltrow, actress Blythe Danner and actor Harry Danner. First cousin of director Jake Paltrow and actresses Hillary Danner and Gwyneth Paltrow.
- She's trained in fencing, and says that if she wasn't an actress, she'd be a marine biologist or in the FBI. As a little girl, she wanted to be a doorman.
- After years of speculation about her sexuality, she officially came out as a lesbian in 2019 and revealed that she had gotten married two years previously to Brazilian musician Ana Rezende.
- Mother, Mary Zahn, is a Broadway dancer and father, William H. Moennig III was a violin maker.
- She has said that most of her friends growing up were boys, and that she was a huge tomboy. In her words: 'I had the biggest big wheels'.
- She is known for choosing non-traditional roles, usually those that involve gender-bending. These roles include Jacqueline 'Jake' Pratt in the television series Young Americans (2000), and a trans woman in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) (Season 4, episode 21, "Fallacy").
- Was roommates with Leisha Hailey and Mia Kirshner while filming The L Word (2004). Kirshner, Hailey, and Moennig lived down the street from Jennifer Beals' house.
- Had the central role in the music video for the Canadian band Our Lady Peace, the song was "Is Anybody Home".
- Auditioned for Boys Don't Cry (1999).
- Best known as Shane McCutcheon in the The L Word (2004) and Jake Pratt in Young Americans (2000).
- Alumna of the AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Class of 1998.
- Her grandfather, William Moennig, hailed from Markneukirchen, a little German town famous for musical instruments.
- Has German, Scottish and Irish ancestry.
- Currently lives in Los Angeles, California (2007)
- Her first role as an actor was in a children's theater production of Winnie the Pooh, where she starred as Christopher Robin.
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