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Meredith Monroe

American actress (born 1969)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Meredith Leigh Monroe is an American actress best known for portraying Andie McPhee on Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003, her recurring role as Haley Hotchner on Criminal Minds and Carolyn Standall on 13 Reasons Why.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Meredith Monroe” as american actress (born 1969). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Meredith, Monroe and American.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Meredith, Monroe and American providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Meredith Monroe”, the useful work is to connect “american actress (born 1969)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1998 and 2003.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Meredith Monroe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.