Michelle Lynn Monaghan was born on March 23 1976 in Winthrop Iowa She is the youngest of three children and the only daughter of Sharon Hamel who ran a day care center and Robert L Monaghan a factory worker and farmer She is of mostly Irish and German descent After graduating from high school in Iowa she studied journalism for three years at Chicago's Columbia College In order to pay for college she took a job as a model In 1999 she quit college and moved to New York to...