Angela Montenegro
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Angela Pearly-Gates Montenegro Hodgins is a fictional character in the television series Bones
(2005–present), portrayed by Michaela Conlin
. She is a classically-trained artist involved in forensic reconstructions.
from ZZ Top
(played by the musician himself). Angela was born in Baltimore
, Maryland
on April 16. Her middle name is meant to be an allusion to her father's guitar "Miss Pearly Gates." Angela Montenegro is not her birth name; rather, it came to her in a dream and she legally changed her name on her 18th birthday.
The character of Angela Montenegro is a specialist in forensic facial reconstruction
at the fictional Jeffersonian Institution, who frequently works with Dr. Temperance Brennan, her best friend. Angela received her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin
in visual arts, with a minor in computer science. She uses her skills as an artist to develop, maintain, and improve the lab’s 3-dimensional graphics and computer simulation systems.
Angela is bisexual. It has been revealed that eight years prior she was in a short-term relationship with a woman named Roxie, "whose heart [Angela] broke in art school." Although Roxie briefly re-entered Angela's life, their short-lived relationship did not work out.
was quoted as saying Angela "was the heart of the operation." Angela's more typical social skills are often used by the writers as a balancing point; she demonstrates a need to interact with other people the way her more awkward colleagues do not. Plotlines have alluded that Angela has extensive romantic experience, once telling Zack Addy
to "reap the benefits of my sexual wisdom." She also told Dr. Brennan, "I don't know how to talk to crazy people unless I'm dating them."
Angela contemplates leaving the Jeffersonian at one point, under the assumption that her work does not contribute to cases in a meaningful way. She was also unsure of her ability to deal with the graphic violence dealt with regularly at the lab. However, Dr. Goodman, the director of the Jeffersonian, spoke of the vital importance of her work in adding an element of humanity to the victims, returning their identity. This line of reasoning persuades her to remain at the lab.
Angela's first revealed steady boyfriend Kirk, is a "pseudo-famous photographer" who lives in the desert of New Mexico. Their 5 year relationship ends abruptly when Kirk goes off into the desert with his Indian guide and never returns. Angela is prompted to call Temperance for help when a skull is left on the porch of the local sheriff. Dr. Brennan is able to identify that the skull does belong to Kirk and the premise of the episode is discovering what happened to him out in the desert. According to Angela, he was the guy she compared all other guys to.
met when Angela was brought on to work at the Jeffersonian by Brennan. While initially on good terms, they grew closer throughout season one. At the beginning of season two, Hodgins became obviously interested in her, and pursued her more openly. After a few episodes of palpable sexual tension, Hodgins finally asked Angela on a date in the episode "The Girl with the Curl". While their date was quite successful, Angela broke it off fearing repercussions if things went badly. Later, after Hodgins was rescued from being buried alive, they kissed, and at the end of the episode they went home together. Angela later asked Hodgins if she could sleep at his place one night after being spooked by restored video footage, and soon they were openly involved. After refusing Hodgins' marriage proposal twice, she proposed to him. Their wedding was cut short in the season two finale when it was revealed that Angela was technically married to a man from Fiji
, Grayson Barasa. Their relationship ended after a lengthy search for her husband, and issues regarding Jack's trust of Angela.
Throughout seasons four and five, the two struggled with their relationship, eventually appearing to form a close, albeit awkward, friendship. After Hodgins declared he would support her during a pregnancy scare while she was dating Wendell, their romantic tension was rekindled. While collecting evidence together for a murder investigation in Maryland
, they were pulled over for a moving violation and subsequently jailed for a variety of minor infractions by a local sheriff. Their time spent together led them to reexamine their relationship, and why they broke up. When a judge arrived to post their bail, they were finally married in a civil ceremony with the sheriff as witness. They announced their marriage to their colleagues soon after. At the end of season five, they were planning to spend a year in Paris
while Brennan and Booth were away, as neither of them wanted "to break in a new forensic anthropologist and FBI liaison."
Upon their return from Paris, Angela discovers that they are expecting their first child. Angela tries to keep her pregnancy a secret from the Jeffersonian team. This may be a reference to how she reacted to Brennan wanting a baby in Season 4 ("The Critic in the Cabernet"). In "The Body and the Bounty", it's revealed that if Angela and Hodgins had a daughter, they would name her Temperance, after Dr. Brennan; but strictly as a middle name, because the name Temperance is "awful". Angela's father wanted to name their child "Staccato Mamba". It came to him in a song. However, the three of them finally agree on the names Catherine Temperance for a girl and Michael Joseph for a boy.
In the episode "The Blackout in the Blizzard" Angela and Hodgins find out they are both carriers of Leber's Congenital Amaurosis
, giving their baby a 25 percent chance of blindness. This was a huge devastation for the couple, but in the end they reminded each other that they can handle anything together. Their son was born healthy and without a vision impairment. He was named Michael, as planned, Staccato, as Angela's father wanted, and Vincent, after the late Vincent Nigel Murray.
-influenced ceremony in Fiji. She was unsure whether the marriage was legal and had no knowledge of where her husband was after the ritual; in actual fact, the United States government considered the marriage valid, and prevented her marriage to Hodgins. When a private investigator tracked down Barasa, he attempted to convince Angela to stay with him, informing her that he had built them a house; Barasa's presence eventually precipitated the end of Angela's engagement to Hodgins, because Angela felt that Hodgins did not trust her.
Bones (TV series)
Bones is an American crime drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on September 13, 2005. The show is based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent...
(2005–present), portrayed by Michaela Conlin
Michaela Conlin
Michaela Conlin is an American stage and television actress best known for her work on the Fox TV series Bones, as Angela Montenegro.-Early life:...
. She is a classically-trained artist involved in forensic reconstructions.
Brief character history
Angela Montenegro is a fictional character, written as the daughter of a fictional representation of Billy GibbonsBilly Gibbons
William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons is an American musician, actor and car customizer, best known as the guitarist of the Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959...
from ZZ Top
ZZ Top
ZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...
(played by the musician himself). Angela was born in Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
, Maryland
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
on April 16. Her middle name is meant to be an allusion to her father's guitar "Miss Pearly Gates." Angela Montenegro is not her birth name; rather, it came to her in a dream and she legally changed her name on her 18th birthday.
The character of Angela Montenegro is a specialist in forensic facial reconstruction
Forensic facial reconstruction
Forensic facial reconstruction is the process of recreating the face of an individual from their skeletal remains through an amalgamation of artistry, forensic science, anthropology, osteology, and anatomy...
at the fictional Jeffersonian Institution, who frequently works with Dr. Temperance Brennan, her best friend. Angela received her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
in visual arts, with a minor in computer science. She uses her skills as an artist to develop, maintain, and improve the lab’s 3-dimensional graphics and computer simulation systems.
Angela is bisexual. It has been revealed that eight years prior she was in a short-term relationship with a woman named Roxie, "whose heart [Angela] broke in art school." Although Roxie briefly re-entered Angela's life, their short-lived relationship did not work out.
Characterization
Throughout the series, Angela Montenegro is described as a "free spirit", "good-time girl" and is a "wild-child" at heart. She is shown to be more socially "normal" than her coworkers at the Jeffersonian, and seems to not consider herself a scientist like the other "squints", instead on multiple occasions referencing facial reconstruction as an "art". In one episode, the character Jack HodginsJack Hodgins (Bones)
Dr. Jack Stanley Hodgins IV, Ph.D., is a fictional character in the American television series, Bones. He is portrayed by T. J. Thyne. Jack is introduced to the series primarily as an entomologist/forensic entomologist, but also as a mineralogist/forensic mineralogist, a palynology/forensic...
was quoted as saying Angela "was the heart of the operation." Angela's more typical social skills are often used by the writers as a balancing point; she demonstrates a need to interact with other people the way her more awkward colleagues do not. Plotlines have alluded that Angela has extensive romantic experience, once telling Zack Addy
Zack Addy
Zachary Uriah 'Zack' Addy, Ph.D is a fictional character in the television series Bones. He is portrayed by Eric Millegan. The character was introduced as Dr...
to "reap the benefits of my sexual wisdom." She also told Dr. Brennan, "I don't know how to talk to crazy people unless I'm dating them."
Angela contemplates leaving the Jeffersonian at one point, under the assumption that her work does not contribute to cases in a meaningful way. She was also unsure of her ability to deal with the graphic violence dealt with regularly at the lab. However, Dr. Goodman, the director of the Jeffersonian, spoke of the vital importance of her work in adding an element of humanity to the victims, returning their identity. This line of reasoning persuades her to remain at the lab.
Kirk Persinger
Season 1 Episode 17, "The Skull in the Desert," reveals that for "three weeks out of the year, Angela has a boyfriend and a vacation."Angela's first revealed steady boyfriend Kirk, is a "pseudo-famous photographer" who lives in the desert of New Mexico. Their 5 year relationship ends abruptly when Kirk goes off into the desert with his Indian guide and never returns. Angela is prompted to call Temperance for help when a skull is left on the porch of the local sheriff. Dr. Brennan is able to identify that the skull does belong to Kirk and the premise of the episode is discovering what happened to him out in the desert. According to Angela, he was the guy she compared all other guys to.
Jack Hodgins
Angela and HodginsJack Hodgins (Bones)
Dr. Jack Stanley Hodgins IV, Ph.D., is a fictional character in the American television series, Bones. He is portrayed by T. J. Thyne. Jack is introduced to the series primarily as an entomologist/forensic entomologist, but also as a mineralogist/forensic mineralogist, a palynology/forensic...
met when Angela was brought on to work at the Jeffersonian by Brennan. While initially on good terms, they grew closer throughout season one. At the beginning of season two, Hodgins became obviously interested in her, and pursued her more openly. After a few episodes of palpable sexual tension, Hodgins finally asked Angela on a date in the episode "The Girl with the Curl". While their date was quite successful, Angela broke it off fearing repercussions if things went badly. Later, after Hodgins was rescued from being buried alive, they kissed, and at the end of the episode they went home together. Angela later asked Hodgins if she could sleep at his place one night after being spooked by restored video footage, and soon they were openly involved. After refusing Hodgins' marriage proposal twice, she proposed to him. Their wedding was cut short in the season two finale when it was revealed that Angela was technically married to a man from Fiji
Fiji
Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
, Grayson Barasa. Their relationship ended after a lengthy search for her husband, and issues regarding Jack's trust of Angela.
Throughout seasons four and five, the two struggled with their relationship, eventually appearing to form a close, albeit awkward, friendship. After Hodgins declared he would support her during a pregnancy scare while she was dating Wendell, their romantic tension was rekindled. While collecting evidence together for a murder investigation in Maryland
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
, they were pulled over for a moving violation and subsequently jailed for a variety of minor infractions by a local sheriff. Their time spent together led them to reexamine their relationship, and why they broke up. When a judge arrived to post their bail, they were finally married in a civil ceremony with the sheriff as witness. They announced their marriage to their colleagues soon after. At the end of season five, they were planning to spend a year in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
while Brennan and Booth were away, as neither of them wanted "to break in a new forensic anthropologist and FBI liaison."
Upon their return from Paris, Angela discovers that they are expecting their first child. Angela tries to keep her pregnancy a secret from the Jeffersonian team. This may be a reference to how she reacted to Brennan wanting a baby in Season 4 ("The Critic in the Cabernet"). In "The Body and the Bounty", it's revealed that if Angela and Hodgins had a daughter, they would name her Temperance, after Dr. Brennan; but strictly as a middle name, because the name Temperance is "awful". Angela's father wanted to name their child "Staccato Mamba". It came to him in a song. However, the three of them finally agree on the names Catherine Temperance for a girl and Michael Joseph for a boy.
In the episode "The Blackout in the Blizzard" Angela and Hodgins find out they are both carriers of Leber's Congenital Amaurosis
Leber's congenital amaurosis
Leber's congenital amaurosis is a rare inherited eye disease that appears at birth or in the first few months of life, and affects around 1 in 80,000 of the population.It was first described by Theodor Leber in the 19th century...
, giving their baby a 25 percent chance of blindness. This was a huge devastation for the couple, but in the end they reminded each other that they can handle anything together. Their son was born healthy and without a vision impairment. He was named Michael, as planned, Staccato, as Angela's father wanted, and Vincent, after the late Vincent Nigel Murray.
Roxie Lyon
After breaking off her engagement with Hodgins, Angela resumes a relationship first forged in college with Roxie, a woman who currently works as a sculptor and who was, at the time of their reconnection, the suspect of a case. Roxie broke it off with Angela over irreconcilable differences in worldview; Angela "lives in the moment" and Roxie wants a partner who plans for the future.Wendell Bray
After Brennan's intern, Wendell Bray, gives Angela $45 to help save a baby pig, the two kiss and begin a relationship. Their relationship continued throughout part of Season 5. After they had been dating for a few months, Angela took a pregnancy test which came up positive. This test is later revealed by a second test Dr. Saroyan had run to be a false positive. When Wendell found out, he told her that he would have supported her in her choices because it was his duty. This caused Angela to realize that while Wendell is a good guy, he was not "[her] guy" and subsequently ended their relationship. The break-up was mutual and amicable.Grayson Barasa
It is revealed that at one point, she married in a kavaKava
Kava or kava-kava is a crop of the western Pacific....
-influenced ceremony in Fiji. She was unsure whether the marriage was legal and had no knowledge of where her husband was after the ritual; in actual fact, the United States government considered the marriage valid, and prevented her marriage to Hodgins. When a private investigator tracked down Barasa, he attempted to convince Angela to stay with him, informing her that he had built them a house; Barasa's presence eventually precipitated the end of Angela's engagement to Hodgins, because Angela felt that Hodgins did not trust her.