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BRIDGET MOYNAHAN Kathryn Bridget Moynahan (born April 28, 1971) is an American actress and former model. She graduated from Longmeadow High School in Massachusetts in 1989 and began pursuing a career in modeling. Bridget appeared in department-store catalogs and magazines, and after doing television commercials, began taking acting lessons. She made her television debut in a guest appearance in the comedy series Sex and the City in 1999, where she later had a recurring role as Natasha... The beautiful Bridget Moynahan... is on the Board of Directors of Paul Newman's Hole In The Wall Gang Camp... Paul started this wonderful Children's Charity for disabled children in 1988! Bridget is a longtime supporter, volunteer, and Board Member for The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a non-profit charity founded by the late legendary actor Paul Newman... The Hole In The Wall Camp provides free year-round programs and camp experiences for children coping with cancer and other serious medical conditions...
Connections between Bridget and Paul: Board Leadership: Bridget serves as an active board member alongside Paul Newman's daughter, Lissy Newman... Fundraising: She has frequently headlined events to benefit the organization, such as a major fundraiser in Connecticut... Expansion Support: She attended the high-profile ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the grand opening of the charity's second regional location on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.... Please donate or volunteer at the Camp or if you are looking for more information about the Camp? Contact them from The Hole In The Wall Gang Camp website! The famous actor and founder of The Hole In The Wall Gang Camp... Mr. Paul Leonard Newman!
Bridget made her feature-film debut in Coyote Ugly (2000). She had supporting roles in Serendipity (2001); The Sum of All Fears (2002); The Recruit (2003); I, Robot (2004); Lord of War (2005); Gray Matters (2006); Prey (2007); Noise (2007); Ramona and Beezus (2010); John Wick (2014); The Journey Home (2014) and John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)... Bridget starred in the ABC television series Six Degrees, which premiered in September 2006, and was taken off the schedule after just eight episodes. From 2010 to 2024, she starred as Erin Reagan in the CBS police drama Blue Bloods... Bridget is the daughter of Irish Americans Mary Bridget (née Moriarty), a former school teacher, and Edward Bradley Moynahan, a scientist and former administrator at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has described her family background as Irish-Catholic... Bridget has an older brother, Andy, and a younger brother, Sean, who work as a computer programmer and potter, respectively... When Moynahan was around seven years old, her family moved to Longmeadow, Massachusetts, where she later attended Longmeadow High School. Moynahan was captain of the girls' soccer, basketball, and lacrosse teams and graduated from high school in 1989... She has stated that she was a "tomboy" in her childhood... After graduating from high school, Moynahan pursued a modeling career despite having never read fashion magazines growing up... the accompanied a friend to a modeling audition in Springfield, Massachusetts; at the audition, Moynahan was signed by the modeling agency and her friend was not... Moynahan moved to New York City at age 18. A year later, she began appearing in magazines such as Vogue and Elle and on the covers of other widely known magazines... Her cover highlights include Vogue Paris (May 1993), Elle (October 1993), and Glamour (six times)... Discussing her modeling work in a July 2004 interview, Bridget said, "It was a crazy world that paid a lot of money. I liked being a model, but I knew it would never last, so I looked into acting." She began doing soap and shampoo commercials in addition to taking acting and art classes. She studied acting with Iris Klein and made her TV debut in 1999 as Natasha in HBO's romantic comedy Sex and the City... She later had a recurring role in the show until the divorce of her character from Mr. Big (Chris Noth)... The following year, she appeared in smaller film roles, including having parts in In the Weeds and Whipped... Bridget made her feature-film debut in the 2000 comedy-drama Coyote Ugly as Rachel, a bartender and dancer in a wild New York bar, a role considered her breakthrough... She accepted the role because she "thought it was interesting that the whole movie revolved around five women…and my character was so strong and independent"... The film received generally unfavorable reviews, but was a box-office success, earning $133 million worldwide... Her next role was a supporting role in 2001 film Serendipity as Hally, the fiancée of John Cusack's character... Bridget worked opposite Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman in the action film The Sum of All Fears, based on Tom Clancy's book of the same name... She played Dr. Catherine Muller, a love interest for Affleck's Jack Ryan... have Larsen of the Dayton Daily News reported the subplot involving Moynahan and Affleck was "the film's weakest point"... The film received ambivalent reviews, but was a commercial success, earning $193 million at the box office... Moynahan's next role was as a CIA trainee in The Recruit (2003)... The movie was poorly received, with Mike Clark of USA Today calling it "a less-than-middling melodrama whose subject matter and talent never click as much as its credits portend"... In 2004, Bridget worked alongside Will Smith in Alex Proyas' science-fiction movie I, Robot, loosely based on Isaac Asimov's short-story collection of the same name... She portrayed Dr. Susan Calvin, a specialist in robot psychology... The film received mixed reviews, though critics enjoyed Moynahan's performance. Daniel Neman of Richmond Times-Dispatch disliked the film, concluding that Moynahan "turns in an able performance as Dr. Calvin, the convenient character"... With revenue of $347 million worldwide, the film remains Bridget's most commercially successful picture to date... Her next movie was 2005's Lord of War, a political crime thriller, where she played Ava Fontaine Orlov, the wife of Nicolas Cage's character... In 2006, Maxim named Moynahan #96 on its annual "Hot 100" list...
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