Monica Padman co-created and co-hosts the podcast Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard.
17 Facts About Monica Padman
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Monica Padman's mother moved to the United States from India at the age of six, and her father moved to the United States from India as a college student for educational opportunities.
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Monica Padman graduated from Duluth High School in 2006 and attended the University of Georgia on the Hope Scholarship, which is a merit-based scholarship funded by the Georgia Lottery.
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Monica Padman cites her love of the show Friends and the film Good Will Hunting as making her want to become an actor when she was in eighth grade.
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Monica Padman began studying theater in high school and, in college at the University of Georgia, she double-majored in theater and public relations, choosing the latter in order to placate her parents.
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Monica Padman completed an internship at the Radmin Company while in college.
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Monica Padman graduated in 2009 from UGA with a 4.0 GPA with both BA and ABJ degrees and afterwards moved to Los Angeles.
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In 2011, Monica Padman moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.
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Monica Padman trained in improvisational comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade, and supported herself by babysitting and working at the front desk at SoulCycle.
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Monica Padman met Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard through social circles, then coincidentally booked an acting job on an episode of House of Lies playing an assistant to Bell's character.
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Monica Padman had appearances in shows and a movies affiliated with Dax and Kristen Bell.
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Monica Padman is the co-creator of the podcast Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, which evolved from Monica Padman's and Shepard's habit of debating ideas on the back porch of Shepard and Bell's home.
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Monica Padman co-hosted the podcast Synced, under the Armchair Expert umbrella, with journalist Liz Plank until October 2024.
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Monica Padman is a close friend of Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard.
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Monica Padman purchased a house across the street from the Shepards in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles in late 2019.
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At the age of 31, Monica Padman said she had been on fewer than 10 dates in her life and had never had a boyfriend.
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In 2019, Monica Padman received an Emmy Award nomination for her work as a producer on Momsplaining, a web series hosted by Kristen Bell and airing on the YouTube channel of The Ellen DeGeneres Show.