Monica Maria Barbaro is an American actress. She began training in ballet at an early age, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance from New York University. She began acting soon after college, taking on small roles in film and television in the 2010s, before her first major role in the second season of Unreal (2016), followed by further television roles in Chicago P.D. (2016–2017), Chicago Justice (2017), The Good Cop (2018), and Splitting Up Together (2018–2019). Her feature film debut was in the independent film The Cathedral (2021).
At the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party red carpet, Danny Ramirez celebrates Monica Barbaro's Oscars success, calling it a career..