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Monica Potter

Monica Potter
Date Of Birth: 30, June, 1971 in Cleveland Ohio USA
Born Monica Louise Brokaw; Picked up the surname Potter via her Ex-husband Tom Potter whom she married on July 21st 1990 and divorced in 1998 having had 2 sons by him. Married her present husband during 2005 (Daniel Christopher Allison) whom she has given birth to a daughter by him.

She is the second of four sisters and brought up in a Catholic Community where she Attended Villa Angela Catholic school for Girls and was involved in Modelling in Miami and Chicago before her Acting career began taking off, which was in 1994, when she moved to L.A.

Known to be an actress whom chooses her parts by how much comedic value as well as drama they offer.

She is a Vegitarian and married to an Orthopedic Surgeon.



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Monica Potter - what members say


  • I'm With Lucy
  • I'm With Lucy review by from London
    Rated - 1.0 stars Not her best work ... 17 February 2005
    ...This was not Monica Potter's best film, a bit confusing and frankly, none of the characters were in the least bit interesting....   Read customer review

Monica Potter - filmography


  • The Last House on the Left on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Garret Dillahunt,  Michael Bowen,  Joshua Cox
    Director: Dennis Iliadis
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang led by a prison escapee unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims -- a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 10,036 members
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  • Lower Learning (2008)
    Starring: Jason Biggs,  Eva Longoria,  Rob Corddry
    Director: Mark Lafferty
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Welcome to Geraldine Ferraro Elementary, where the teachers are drunk, lazy, or psychotic, every child has been left behind, and burned-out Vice Principal Tom Willoman (Jason Biggs) is barely holding on. But when totally hot district inspector Rebecca Seabrook (Eva Longoria Parker) arrives to shut ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 30 members
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  • Saw (2004)
    Starring: Cary Elwes,  Danny Glover,  Ken Leung
    Director: James Wan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When Adam (Leigh Whannell) is jolted back to consciousness after nearly drowning at the bottom of a decrepit bathtub, he awakes to find himself chained to a rusty pipe inside a dark torture chamber. There is someone else in the room. Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) has also just regained ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,272 member
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  • Saw on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Cary Elwes,  Danny Glover,  Ken Leung
    Director: James Wan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When Adam (Leigh Whannell) is jolted back to consciousness after nearly drowning at the bottom of a decrepit bathtub, he awakes to find himself chained to a rusty pipe inside a dark torture chamber. There is someone else in the room. Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) has also just regained ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 81,642 members
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  • I'm With Lucy on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Monica Potter,  Craig Bierko,  Julianne Nicholson
    Director: Jon Sherman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Lucy is about to get married and her best friend wants to know what lead up to that moment so Lucy explains that she has had five blind dates in the previous year and she is about to marry one of them - but which one.
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 2,675 members
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  • Along Came A Spider on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Penelope Ann Miller,  Morgan Freeman,  Monica Potter
    Director: Lee Tamahori
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The redoubtable Morgan Freeman returns as Washington, DC police detective Alex Cross, the master profiler, in an exciting thriller based on James Patterson's novel, ALONG CAME A SPIDER. The film is actually a prequel to the box office blockbuster KISS THE GIRLS. Here, Cross is pursuing a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 11,906 members
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  • Head Over Heels on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Monica Potter,  Freddie Prinze Jr.,  Sarah O'Hare
    Director: Mark Waters
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Amanda (Monica Potter) is a nice, normal girl who moves to New York to work as an art restorer, and begins sharing an apartment with four quirky roommates who are all fashion models. She keeps bumping into Jim Winston (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), the cute boy who lives in the building across the street ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,952 members
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  • Patch Adams on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Monica Potter,  Philip Seymour Hoffman
    Director: Tom Shadyac
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tom Shadyac's (ACE VENTURA) film tells the true story of Hunter "Patch" Adams (Robin Williams), an aspiring doctor in the 1970s who attempted to treat his patients with a medicine that modern science had totally disregarded: humor. After a stint in a mental hospital where he discovers his need to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 5,753 members
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  • Without Limits (1998)
    Starring: Billy Crudup,  Donald Sutherland,  Monica Potter
    Director: Robert Towne
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to Oregon University where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car crash.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 17 members
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  • Con Air - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  John Cusack,  John Malkovich
    Director: Simon West
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Nothing makes good-guy non-recidivist offender Cameron Poe happier than the thought of returning to society, where his angelic wife and the equally angelic little girl he's never known are waiting. And nothing makes him angrier than the passel of psychopathic murderers and rapists aboard his prison ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 3,395 members
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  • Con Air on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  John Cusack,  John Malkovich
    Director: Simon West
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Former war hero Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) is sentenced to eight years in prison when he accidentally kills a man in a barroom brawl while defending his pregnant wife. When his release comes through, he's eager to see the daughter he's never met. However, Poe's original flight is delayed, so he's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 32,920 members
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Monica Potter facts

5 most recent films

Parenthood - Series 1 - Complete - 4.0 stars
Last House On The Left - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Last House on the Left - 3.5 stars
Lower Learning - 2.5 stars
Boston Legal - Season 2 - 4.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Boston Legal - Season 2 - 4.5 stars
Boston Legal - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
Saw - 4.0 stars
Con Air - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Con Air - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Lower Learning - 2.5 stars
Without Limits - 3.5 stars
Parenthood - Series 1 - Complete - 4.0 stars
I'm With Lucy - 2.5 stars
A Cool, Dry Place - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

James Spader - 14 times - show films
William Shatner - 14 times - show films
Candice Bergen - 14 times - show films
Rene Auberjonois - 6 times - show films
Mark Valley - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Bill D'El - 8 times - show films
Oz Scott - 8 times - show films
Arlene Sanford - 8 times - show films
Mike Listo - 8 times - show films
Bill D'Elia - 6 times - show films