Monica Potter

Actress

Birthday June 30, 1971

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.

Age 52 years old

Nationality United States

Height 1.7 m

#8631 Most Popular

1971

Monica Gregg Potter (née Brokaw; born June 30, 1971) is an American actress.

Monica Potter (born Monica Gregg Brokaw), was born on June 30, 1971, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Nancy and Paul Brokaw.

Her mother was a secretary in a hospital, and her father invented the first flame-resistant car wax.

Potter has three sisters (Kerry, Jessica, and Brigette).

Her maternal grandparents were Irish immigrants, and she was raised Catholic.

As a child, Potter wanted to be a nun.

During her childhood she attended the Villa Angela Academy, and graduated from Euclid High School.

She also spent part of her early years in Arab, Alabama.

Potter had wanted to be an actress since childhood.

She began acting at the Cleveland Play House when she was in elementary school.

Starting at age 12, she worked at a flower shop, and later in her teens, she worked in a sub sandwich shop and did some modeling for newspaper and magazine ads and local commercials.

1987

The following year, she appeared in a HGTV reality series titled Welcome Back Potter, which chronicled the purchase and restoration of her childhood home in Cleveland, Ohio thirty years after the family sold it in 1987.

1994

After appearing in several commercials in Chicago, Potter relocated to Los Angeles in 1994.

Potter made her screen debut in 1994, on CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless as Sharon Newman.

1995

In 1995, she appeared in the Alan Jackson music video for "Tall, Tall Trees".

In 1995, Potter was featured in the music video for the song "Tall, Tall Trees" by country artist Alan Jackson.

She later appeared in several feature films, including Con Air (playing the wife of Nicolas Cage's character) and starring opposite Robin Williams in Patch Adams.

1997

She is known for her starring roles in the films Con Air (1997), Patch Adams (1998), and Along Came a Spider (2001).

1998

In 1998, she played the love interest of doomed distance runner Steve Prefontaine in the movie Without Limits, and also appeared in the British comedy Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence (1998).

2001

In 2001, she had two major roles, co-starring with Freddie Prinze, Jr. in Head Over Heels, and in the thriller Along Came a Spider with Morgan Freeman, based on the James Patterson best-seller.

2004

She also appeared in the horror film, Saw (2004) and The Last House on the Left, a 2009 remake film.

In 2004, Potter played the role of Alison Gordon in the first Saw film.

Later Potter worked on television.

She was a cast member of the ABC legal drama Boston Legal but left during the second season.

2009

In 2009, Potter became a cast member of the new TNT series Trust Me which was cancelled after the first season due to low ratings.

In 2009, she had a lead role in the horror-thriller remake of Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left, opposite Tony Goldwyn.

Potter played the role of Kristina Braverman in the comedy-drama Parenthood, receiving critical acclaim for her performance in the fourth season.

2010

Potter has also appeared on television, as a series regular on Boston Legal, as well as a Golden Globe-nominated role as Kristina Braverman in the NBC drama series Parenthood (2010–2015).

She was a series regular in the CBS drama Wisdom of the Crowd.

Potter is also known as the founder and principal owner of Monica Potter Home, an upscale home goods, natural skin care and home decor business in Cleveland, Ohio.

With the family business struggling to make money, the company was featured on the reality TV show, The Profit.

2013

In 2013, she won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Drama Supporting Actress and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for her role in the show.

2014

In 2014, Potter created Monica Potter Home, an upscale home goods, natural skin care and home decor business in Cleveland, Ohio.

The business began based on her skin care regimen that made use of Sea Buckthorn essential oils.

Her father started using a balm, a natural product, on her when she was a young child because of her eczema.

The business is a family affair; her mother and sisters work for her in the business.

2015

In 2015, Potter was joined by her mother and all three sisters on Celebrity Family Feud.

2016

In 2016, Counting Crows' frontman Adam Duritz confirmed that the band's song Mrs Potter's Lullaby, from the album This Desert Life (1999), was written about an imaginary version of her, as they had never met.

2017

In 2017, with the business failing, she collaborated with Marcus Lemonis of CNBC's The Profit.

She and her business appeared with her family and coworkers on Season 5, Episode 4.