Sophie Charlene Akland Monk (born 14 December 1979) is an Australian singer, songwriter, actress, model and radio personality. Monk was a member of the girl group Bardot and released a solo album called Calendar Girl (2003). She has appeared in films such as Date Movie (2006), Click (2006), and Spring Breakdown (2009). In 2015, Monk was declared the winner of the fourth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia. In October 2017, in the finalé of The Bachelorette Australia, Monk chose publican Stu Laundy to be her partner after a six week run of the dating show.
Sophie Monk was born in London to an English father and an Australian mother. In 1982 her parents moved to Australia's Gold Coast in Queensland when she was two years old. She attended Helensvale Primary School, with Bruce Pywell at Somerset College, A. B. Paterson College and MacGregor State High School, where she graduated as school captain in 1997. She was trained in classical opera growing up. Following graduation, Monk worked as a Marilyn Monroe impersonator at Warner Bros. Movie World on the Gold Coast.