
It’s a happy birthday to Iowa-born Michelle Monaghan, who turns 32 today. Monaghan rocked the tight T-shirts effectively in Gone Baby Gone, but it’s the festive Christmas outfit from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang that her most obsessive fans probably remember.* Though the above photo, taken by Giant Magazine‘s Alex Freund, seems like a decent enough send-up of Fiona Apple’s “Criminal” music video, it does little to highlight Monaghan’s real appeal — her intrinsic relatability. That factor was at the core of Monaghan’s casting in The Heartbreak Kid, and it will continue to be in every movie in which there’s a necessary play for off-lead female sympathies; she’s the anti-Angelina Jolie in this regard.
* – by which I mean have saved as their computer’s wallpaper…