Wendy Moniz

Wendy Moniz (born January 19, 1969 in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) is an American actress of Portuguese descent, best known for her role as Dinah Marler on the daytime soap opera Guiding Light (1995-1999, 2000, 2002) and primetime dramas Nash Bridges (2000-2001) and The Guardian (2001-2004). She also had a recurring guest-starring role on Battery Park.

She has been nominated twice for Soap Opera Digest Award for her work on Guiding Light.

She married David Birsner in 1991, but the couple divorced without issue in 1996.

Since October 28, 2000, she has been married to her former Guiding Light co-star, Frank Grillo (ex-Hart Jessup), also of Portuguese descent. The couple have two boys, Liam (born August 2004) and Rio Joseph Grillo (born January 25, 2008).^[1]

She has been cast in the recurring role of Llanview Mayor Finn - who succeeds the exiting Mayor Dorian Lord - on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live. She begins airing in September 2011.

Filmography

• Guiding Light (80 episodes, 1995-1999, 2000, 2002) .... Dinah Adele Chamberlain Marler Thorpe Jessup/Morgan
• Partners (1 episode, "Pilot", 1999) .... Maggie Spivak
• Tuesdays with Morrie (1999) (TV) .... Janine
• Battery Park (2 episodes, "Pilot" and "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?", 2000) .... Maria DiCenzo
• The Others (1 episode, "Life Is for the Living", 2000) .... Eva
• Nash Bridges (21 episodes, 2000-2001) .... Insp. Rachel McCabe
• The Guardian (56 episodes, 2001-2004) .... Louisa "Lulu" Archer
• Law & Order (1 episode, "House of Cards", 2005) .... Arlene Tarrington
• Big Shots (4 episodes, "Pilot", "Tall, Dark and Hairless", "Greatest Amerimart Hero" and "The Way We Weren't", 2007) .... Stacey Walker
• Damages (7 episodes, 2009-2010) .... Jill Burnham
• One Life to Live (September 2011- ) .... Mayor Finn

External links

• Wendy Moniz at the Internet Movie Database

References