Monique Gata Dupree is an independent/underground entertainment Icon. She cameos, introduces, co-stars or stars in over 85 films, television shows, web series and nationwide wrestling events to date. Including but not limited to: Plan 9, Lean on me, Skeleton Key 2,3 and Skeleton Key 3 part 2, Nuke ‘em high 2, Bachelor party in the bungalow of the damned and Juliette Landau’s A place among the undead.
Her first directorial efforts (Shadow Hunters: Devil Speak) was met with a standing ovation at the 2015 Newark Comic Con. She appears in as a model in magazines and comic books/graphic novels both foreign and domestic (and her very own pulp fiction publication: The misadventures of Tha Original Gata: A Cat o’Nine tales).
Also, known as the ‘First black scream queen’ or simply ‘Gata’ she is media daring to Troma films and Fangoria enterprise alike, as well as a main stay of Tommy Dreamer’s ‘House of Hardcore’ pro-wrestling production as one half of the villainous in ring beauties ‘the Double Duprees’. Monique also leans her vocal talents to the Hip-Hop/Rock fusion Band Negro Childe as lead singer.
Creatively fueled by the example and admiration for her older brother Tony Todd, Monique has tackled every event and performance with talent, charm, professionalism and an unmatched vigor that has gained her a diehard fan base in ever vestige of her seemingly limitless artistic branches.
A dedicated mother of ten, wife and vocal community advocate, Monique has lent her time, voice and vast varying abilities to many important social and health causes: Such as homelessness, cancer awareness, women’s rights, domestic and sexual abuse and most recently Child Trafficking via the organization ‘Freedom Ladder’ NYC.
