Photo: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Maika Monroe earned the modern scream-queen crown honestly, and I mean that as high praise. Before acting, she was a competitive kitesurfer out of Santa Barbara, and I am convinced that background of reading wind and holding nerve feeds the stillness she brings to horror. In It Follows, The Guest, and later Longlegs, she does not just scream; she absorbs dread with her eyes and lets the audience feel it second-hand. That is a rarer skill than most leading-lady polish. Whenever her name appears in a genre cast list, my expectations rise, because she makes frightening films feel genuinely serious.
Overview
Maika Monroe (born Dillon Monroe Buckley; May 29, 1993) is an American actress. She is most notable for her leading roles in Reminders of Him (2026), The Guest and It Follows (both 2014), the latter two which established her as a scream queen. Such roles recurred in the horror films Villains (2019) and Longlegs (2024). She also starred in the thrillers Greta (2018) and Watcher (2022).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Maika Monroe
- Name (Japanese)
- マイカ・モンロー
- Reading
- まいか・もんろー
- Born
- May 29, 1993 (age 33)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Rooster
- Origin
- Santa Barbara, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- kitesurfer / actor / film actor / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.