At fourteen, Monika was the youngest ever to win
the prestigious Ford Modeling Agency's Supermodel
of the World competition. By fifteen, she was the
youngest ever to have appeared on the cover of
American Vogue and in the pages of the coveted
Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
After five years of a short but remarkable career,
Monika left modeling, finished high school with
honors and moved to Los Angeles to pursue an
acting career. "Modeling was something that I just
fell into -- it wasn't my main goal in life and I felt that I
had accomplished everything I would in that area. I
wanted to move on and prove that I could make it in
another industry -- one that I was more passionate
about."
Prove it, she did. Not long after arriving in Los Angeles, Monika landed the lead role of
Ivana in the daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful and has since appeared in countless
other television shows, including Andromeda, Caroline in the City, Total Recall, , Dead
Man's Gun, Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, and many more. She also appeared
in a cameo role opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in Junior and starred opposite Mimi
Rogers and Anthony LaPaglia in the popular art house film Killer (aka; Bulletproof Heart)...
Monika is currently filming the highly rated syndicated show; ‘The Beastmaster’ while
splitting her time between Los Angeles and Vancouver. She enjoys hiking, photography
and 'fixing up' her cabin in Northern Ontario Canada.