During a visit to West Side Market with reporter Dave Chudowsky from WKYC Online Magazine, acclaimed parenting TV star Monica Potter hinted at the potential return of the TV series, which ran from 2010-2015.
The mother of three first worked as a model for tabloids and magazines before entering the acting industry in 1994. This was after she won a role as Sharon Newman in The Young and the Restless. Last year she played Dalina in Nubeluz.
Monica Potter age and background information
Named Monica Gregg Brokaw after her birth on June 30, 1971 and in Cleveland, Ohio; This actress is of mixed ethnicity including English, German, Irish, Scottish and even a tiny mix of Swedish, Belgian and French ancestry.
She attended Villa Angela Academy, after which she went to Euclid High School, where she graduated. Potter’s ambition as an actress dates back to her childhood when she acted at the Cleveland Playhouse in elementary school.
When Monica was only 12 years old she worked in a flower shop and later in her teens she worked in a sandwich shop from where she became known modeling for local newspaper and magazine ads. She appeared in a series of advertisements in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles in 1994. It was there that she got the opportunity to star in Alan Jackson’s country music video for the song Tall, Tall Trees the following year.
Monica Potter’s first major TV appearance was in 1994, she was cast in the soap opera The Young and Restless. As previously mentioned, she portrayed Sharon Newman who was the love interest of Nicolas Newman played by Joshua Morrow. In 1997 she played the wife of the Nicolas Cage character in the film Con Air and followed it up in 1998 with Robin Williams in a comedy-drama film, Patch Adams and Without Borders and Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Lawrence .She starred with Morgan Freeman in the 2001 psychological thriller Along Came the Spider and opposite Freddie Prinze Jr in Head Over Heels the Same Year. After that, Potter played Alison Gordon in the 2004 horror film Sah and she was later cast in the first season of the American legal comedy-drama, Boston Legal (2004-2005).
As if that wasn’t enough, she landed a role in the TV series Trust Me in 2009 before it was canceled after just one season. She starred in Wes Craven’s horror thriller Last House Left with Tony Goldwyn. The award-winning actress later appeared with her family in Celebrity Feud and Welcome Back Potter; That was in 2015.
Monica Potter received critical acclaim for playing Kristina in the comedy-drama Parenthood. She received the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Drama Actress for her Outstanding Performance in the fourth season of the TV series, as well as for a Golden Globe nomination in 2013.
your fortune
Monica is not only an actress, but also a business woman; The actress launched Monica Potter Home in 2013. The company sells natural skin care products, among other things. When the deal fell through in 2017, Monica Potter partnered with television personality, philanthropist and politician Marcus Lemonis on CNBC’s reality TV show. The profit to get it back on its feet.
The 2013 Golden Globe nominee certainly deserves her acting in movies and TV series. All of this has given her an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Family – husband and children
Monica Potter comes from a multiracial family of parents named Paul and Nancy Brokaw. Her mother worked as a secretary in a hospital and her father was an inventor and innovator who invented the first anti-burn wax for cars.
Her siblings are all ladies named Kerry, Jessica and Bridgette.
The actress has been married in more than one marriage. She married Tom Potter in 1990, with whom she had two sons before separating in 1998.
Her second marriage was to orthopedist Daniel Christopher Allison in 2005. Monica Potter and Allison’s baby girl were born in the same year. The couple announced in February 2018 that they were officially ending their 10-year marriage due to irreconcilable differences.
Born in Cleveland, he has three children in total; two sons from a first marriage and a daughter from a second marriage. Their names are Liam, Daniel and Molly Brigid.
Monica Potter posted an Instagram picture that sparked rumors of another pregnancy in January 2018. Her bloated stomach was visible in the picture with the caption “I have something to share”. As followers’ congratulatory comments surfaced, the actress thanked them and explained that she wasn’t pregnant but was currently suffering from intestinal inflammation (colitis).
body measurements
The blonde actress has a slim hourglass figure, which is 1.70 m tall. She weighs 54 kg and her other body measurements are below.
Chest – 35 inches
Waist – 23 inches
Hips – 35 inches