Trudy Monk is the deceased wife of Adrian Monk, the main character in the USA Network series Monk, starring Tony Shalhoub. She was killed by a car bomb more than three years before the events of the pilot episode "Mr. Monk and the Candidate." She now appears to him in dreams, flashbacks and fantasies. http://www.eviltwinltd.com/trudy.htm Trudy Monk was born in Los Angeles in 1962, to Dwight and Marcia Ellison. She attended the Ashton Preparatory School on a scholarship and graduated valedictorian in 1977, at the age of 15. Her best friend, Arleen Cassidy, went on to become headmaster of their school. Trudy did not date very much in high school, expecting to know who the right man would be once she found him. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. She met her future husband Adrian while he was working there at the library. Adrian and Trudy married on August 8, 1990. A prolific writer, Trudy worked as a freelance reporter for several newspapers. Several of her most important stories exposed corruption and crime in San Francisco. In Adrian's words, Trudy "enjoyed poetry, was often barefoot, and kept every promise she ever made." She wrote many poems herself, and would often put one in Monk's wallet for him to find later. Monk still keeps the last one she ever wrote in his wallet. When actor David Ruskin was studying to portray Monk in an upcoming film, he asked about Trudy, and Adrian said "no one ever deserved her." http://monk.wikia.com/wiki/Trudy_Monk Trudy Anne Monk is the late wife of former San Francisco Police Department detective Adrian Monk and the daughter of Dwight and Marsha Ellison. Trudy was protrayed by Stellina Rusich in the first two season and Melora Hardin is playing the role currently. http://bridges-to-monk.page.tl/Trudy-Anne-Monk.htm