Monica Barbaro

Monica Maria Barbaro is an American actress known for her work on stage and screen. She achieved global recognition as naval aviator Natasha "Phoenix" Trace in the blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and earned widespread critical acclaim—including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations—for her performance as folk legend Joan Baez in A Complete Unknown (2024). On television, she starred in Unreal and Chicago Justice, and played a leading role alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Netflix action-comedy series FUBAR. In 2026, she made her professional West End stage debut in Les Liaisons dangereuses