Monica Raymund

Monica Raymund is an American actress and director from St. Petersburg, Florida, who studied at the Juilliard School in New York City and graduated in 2008. While a student she appeared in Juilliard productions of Cymbeline, The Diviners and Animal Farm, and she also performed in St. Petersburg in the LiveArts Peninsula Foundation's Manhattan Casino and Webb's City: The Musical. Her early television work included a 2008 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She then played Ria Torres, a human lie detector, in the Fox series Lie to Me from 2009 to 2011, followed by a recurring part as Dana Lodge on The Good Wife from 2011 to 2012. She starred as Gabriela Dawson on NBC's Chicago Fire from 2012 to 2019. Later she headlined the Starz series Hightown as Jackie Quiñones. Raymund has directed episodes of several television shows, among them Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, FBI, Chicago Fire, Dexter: Original Sin and Dexter: Resurrection.