Maika Monroe is a celebrated American actress and kiteboarder who is known for movies including It Follows, Independence Day: Resurgence, and The Scent of Rain and Lightning.
Maika Monroe, born in 1993, was originally Dillon Monroe Buckley in Santa Barbara, California, but she changed her name later.
When she was 17, she moved to Cabarete, Dominican Republic, to pursue kiteboarding and completed her senior year of high school online.
Monroe began her acting career at At Any Price (2012) and continued with her small role in The Bling Ring (2013).
She also starred in Labor Day (2013) and The Guest (2014).
2014 was the year when Maika Monroe got the breakthrough role of Jamie “Jay” in It Follows, which helped establish her cult “scream queen.”
Monroe also appeared in movies, including Echoes of War (2015), Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), Hot Summer Nights (2017), Honey Boy (2019), Flashback (2020), and Longlegs (2024).
Highlights
- As of 2024, it is estimated that Maika Monroe began to have $1.4- 2 Millions.
- Monroe boasts of having over 248K followers
- She has a expensive car collection including Range Rover, a Chevrolet and a Mercedes Benz.
- Monroe owns a house in California and properties in Los Angles.
Maika Monroe has also appeared on TV shows and in series.
She starred in TV series including Eleventh Hour, The Stranger, and JJ Villard’s Fairy Tales.
Maika Monroe’s Achievement
Maika Monroe has been nominated for many awards for her roles in different movies.
It Follows and Burned were the movies that helped Monroe earn nominations for the iHorror Awards and FilmQuest Awards.
However, for It Follows, she won the Home Media Magazine Awards, the Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Fright Meter Awards.
Besides, she also won CinemaCon Awards and Hell’s Half Mile Film & Music Festival for Independence Day: Resurgence and The Scent of Rain and Lightning.
Additional Information
- Maika Monroe dated actor Joe Keery from 2017 to 2023.
- Monroe is now in a relationship with real-estate agent Dalton Gomez since 2023.
- She is 5 ft 5 in (1.68m) and weighs 53 kg / 117 lbs.
- Monroe celebrates her birthday on May 29.