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Monet Happy Mazur (born April 17, 1976) is an American actress and musician. A lithe, blonde actress with model looks and a rock-and-roll attitude, Monet Mazur racked up acting credits with small roles in film and guest shots on television while fronting the popular Los Angeles punk outfit Nancy Raygun. Born in the mid-1970s to a fashion model mother and an artist father with several album covers to his credit ("I think I was conceived on a cross-country motorcycle trip"), Mazur spent her relatively average childhood dreaming of stardom and began her acting career with a role on the NBC daytime drama "Days of Our Lives" and a cameo in the comedy feature "Addams Family Values" in 1993. A recurring stint on "Party of Five" (Fox) in 1995 would gain her a wide audience, though that year's music-themed supernatural mystery "Raging Angels" would prove a lackluster vehicle for her feature starring debut. A small part in 1997's "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" returned the actress to the big screen. Mazur was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of a former fashion model mother and Ruby Mazur, an illustrator who has worked in the record industry and at one time was the manager of Billy Joel. Mazur has four siblings: Nicholas, Cezanne, Matisse and Miro. Her cousin is Epic Mazur, co-frontman of the Hollywood-based band Crazy Town. Mazur is of Jewish ancestry on her father's side. In the summer of 2005, Mazur gave birth to son Preston Daniel de Rakoff, her first child with husband Alex de Rakoff, whom she married in April 2005. She previously dated actor Adrien Brody, Ashton Kutcher, and guitarist Dave Navarro. Monet Mazur has been in the entertainment industry and acting professionally since 1993. Mazur grew up in Malibu and New York, the daughter of a record industry artist and her mother was a fashion model in the late 60's and 70's. After small roles in TV and film, Mazur finally earned a spate of "actress on the verge of stardom" articles when she was cast in a meatier role as one of Johnny Depp's stoner cohorts in Blow (2001) where she first captured audiences attention. Mazur continued to register on the movie radar with a dramatic turn as Jennifer Lopez's abused sister-in-law in Angel Eyes (2001), and a starring role as a seductive con artist in the independent crime drama The Learning Curve (2001). Returning to lighter work, Monet starred alongside Josh Hartnett in the romantic comedy 40 Days and 40 Nights. She followed up with featured roles in the 2001 summer release "Angel Eyes" starring Jennifer Lopez and in 2002, and appeared with Josh Hartnet and Shannyn Sossamon in "40 Days and 40 Nights" (2002). The films, both with high profile stars and big marketing campaigns behind them, would make the actress a recognizable performer. The resulting attention undoubtedly helped give Mazur's career a deserved boost. Still active with her band, Mazur lined up additional acting projects that included the independent feature "In Memory of My Father" (lensed 2001), the crime comedy "Stark Raving Mad" (2002), the romantic drama "Kiss the Bride" (2002) and the Ashton Kutcher-Brittany Murphy comedy "Just Married" (2003). In 2004 she was the lead good girl biker babe in the high-octane but lowbrow motorcycle actioner "Torque," and she had a nice cult-fan scene in which she goes woman-to-woman against Jaime Pressly. She then had an arch supporting turn in the comedy "Monster-In-Law" (2005) as a spoiled, snobby but sexy rich girl who tries to keep Jennifer Lopez from landing her dream man (Michael Vartan). In 2002 Mazur landed her first well known starring role in the Warner Brother action film Torque with Ice Cube. She also worked along side Jane Fonda and Jennifer Lopez in the 2005 hit Monster-In-Law and achieved much notoriety for portraying Rolling Stone icon Anita Pallenburg in the British biopic Stoned (2005) about the life of Brian Jones. Mazur began modeling and acting in her teens. One of her most well-known ad campaigns are the three TV commercials for Gap she did with director Pedro Romhanyi in 2002: "Everybody in Cords", "Everybody in Leather" and "Everybody in Vests". She has appeared in a number of widely released films in the past several years, including Monster-In-Law and Just Married. She has also appeared in several television shows, including CSI: Miami, Cold Case, Jack & Jill, Strange World and Party of Five. Among dozens of other films Mazur has sang and performed on many soundtracks and done guest vocals on numerous albums including Tricky, the upcoming Sneakerpunk record, and The Dust Brothers. She has performed with the Pussycat Dolls as well as fronted her own band Nancy Raygun that became Hollywood darlings in the music scene in early 2000. In 2008 the Sony studio movie produced by Adam Sandler's production company will release the highly anticipated comedy I Know What Boy's Like, where Monet plays the villainous playboy bunny Cassandra. Monet presently lives Los Angeles with her husband screen writer and director Alex De Rakoff and their son Marlon. |
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