When Daddy's a violin maker and Mama's a Broadway dancer, darling daughter is less likely to grow up to be an accountant than to blossom into an edgy, sexy actress who brings a sense of erotic propulsion to a gay female character on a groundbreaking Showtime series delving into the lesbian subculture, and that's the story of sharp-featured brunette Katherine Moennig. Having made her stage debut at the age of ten in a kiddie production of Winnie the Pooh, cool-hot Kate took her first takes in front of the network camera as Jake in Young Americans, and she tossed her boyish duds aside to flash her initial beaver, boob, and bun exposure as a skinny-dipping sprite on same-sex cable sensation The L Word. Among Katherine’s increasingly enthusiastic partners in increasingly explicit girl-girl grapples on The L Word have been Kristanna Loken, Alicia Leigh Willis, and Sarah Shahi.