<P> Somerville was noticed by a modeling scout while waiting tables . At the age of 22 she moved to Los Angeles, assembled a band and got an agent . She sang backup on Joshua Radin's first album We Were Here . Her song "Winding Road" was included on the Garden State soundtrack, a film written and directed by Zach Braff . </P> <P> Somerville's first acting job was as an extra in the 1996 film City Hall . Her first major role for television was for the lead in the CBS miniseries, Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999), in which she also sang . In 2000 Somerville starred in the series Grosse Pointe, and later played Rachel Hoffman, a colleague of Sandy Cohen, in season one of The O.C. . </P> <P> Somerville had a recurring role as Ross Geller's girlfriend, Mona, for seven episodes in Season 8 of Friends . During the final season (2004--05) of NYPD Blue, she had a supporting role as Det . Laura Murphy . She appeared in fifteen episodes . </P> <P> In 2005, Somerville starred as a lead role in the short - lived sitcom Kitchen Confidential opposite Bradley Cooper . In 2008 she starred the ABC dramedy Cashmere Mafia, along with Lucy Liu, Miranda Otto and Frances O'Connor . She also guest - starred in CBS's Gary Unmarried . </P>

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