Biographical Information

Name: Monica Reyes
(Name according to "The Truth" script: Monica Julietta Reyes.
Although in the actual aired episode she never said "Julietta".)
Hair color: brown
Eye color: brown
Weight: N/A
Height: 5'8"
She is right handed.

Birthplace: Austin, Texas
Born & Raised in: Mexico
Birthdate: around 1965
(date based on entry requirements for Quantico
and the year of her high school graduation)

Parents: adopted by Mexican family. It was said that they live in Mexico City (9x13 "Audrey Pauley"). She has never identified her birth parents.

Relationship History:
Was involved with Brad Follmer (the Assistant Director in Charge) while she worked at the New York Field Office. The relationshp ended in 1999 when she accepted a transfer to New Orleans.

She is currently single, but has an attraction to John Doggett (her FBI partner before The X-Files Division was shut down in "The Truth").

Car: Ford Bronco
License Plate #: 34 RHPT (Washington, D.C.).
Is an organ donor.

Address: (read more)
67 Bennett Ave.
Washington, D.C.

Education:
1986-1990: Brown University - earned bachelors/masters in folklore, mythology. Considered an academic career.
1990-1992: The FBI Academy (Quantico, VA)

Work History:
1992: Special Agent - investigated Satanic Ritual Abuse
1992-1999: Special Agent (New York Field Office)
1999-2001: Special Agent (New Orleans Field Office)
2001-2002: Special Agent (Washington Headquarters; X-Files Division)

Hobbies/interest: collecting artwork (paintings, sculpture), may have an interest in photography based on all the photography hanging in her apartment. Monica is also a huge fan of "The Brady Bunch" and has even been to the Brady House in California and has a picture of herself taken there. (9x18 "Sunshine Days")

Smoking: Throughout her season 8 episodes, we have seen Monica smoke Morley Light cigarettes. She kept saying how she's trying to cut back. In "Empedocles" we see her attempt chewing "Niclets" gum to help her quit. Niclets is for smokers who smoke less than 25 cigarettes a day. (source: The X-Files Official Magazine #18 Summer 2001 - pg.38) By "Nothing Important Happened Today", she seems to have quit the habbit over the weekend.

Language: Aside from English, Monica is fluent in Spanish (9x07 "John Doe").

Wardrobe: While on a case and in the office, Monica can usually be seen in a work suit. Although there have been times where we'll see her dressed casually at work, and even wearing a tanktop. By the FBI's dress code, casual wear is out of line (I'm guessing this has to go down to the wardrobe department that worked for "The X-Files"). In season 8 Monica was always dressed for the work place.

Outside of work, we can usually see Monica dressed casually in jeans and sometimes in leather pants (9x15 "Jump The Shark"). In "Essence" she had a lightweight green short sleeve shirt, and in "Existence" she changed into a lighteight white short sleeve shirt and jeans. She usually will have a dark jacket and will often wear a black leather jacket. She also owns a long sleeve sweater jacket that she wears over her white tanktop in 9x05 "4-D". She also owns a tan jacket (leather perhaps) in 9x04 "Hellbound". She owns a pretty heavy (by the looks of it) button up jacket that she probably uses during the colder months (9x11 "Providence", 9x14 "Improbable").

She seems to be fond of turtle necks, long sleeve v-necks, long sleeves, and tanktops. Jeans, khakis, and even leather pants. She owns a knitted scarf that she wears in cold temperatures (9x12 "Scary Monsters").

Earth tones seem to be her color of choice: red, brown, white, dark green (olive), light yellow, black, grey.

On her date with Brad Follmer in 9x01 "Nothing Important Happened Today I", she wore a black button up long sleeve blouse (with a few top buttons unbuttoned).

She wears a long black nightgown with spaghetti straps. She also has a dark red robe, and two white ones.

Jewelry: wears silver rings (sometimes 1, and sometimes 2) on both her hands (on the middle finger). Earrings: not dangly, small stubs. Small silver half-hoops, golden stubs.

Has visited: Gdansk, Poland (9x05 "4-D")

Official Site Biography
Although born in Austin, Texas, Monica Reyes was adopted by Mexican parents and raised in Mexico. She has never identified her birth parents.

She majored in folklore and mythology at Brown University, earning her bachelors and masters degrees in four years. After considering an academic career, she instead enrolled at Quantico in 1990. Reyes’ first FBI assignment was to serve on a special task force investigating claims of Satanic ritual abuse. None of the charges was ever substantiated, and a report was issued in 1992.

Reyes then served in the New York City field office, where among her cases was the kidnapping of 7 year-old Luke Doggett, son of New York City police officer John Doggett. The boy was eventually found dead, but no suspect was ever apprehended. In 1999, she transferred to the New Orleans field office. She remained there until the former cop-turned FBI Agent Doggett convinced her to accept a post on the X-files unit in Washington, DC.

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