Personal Life
Montgomery was born in Sydney, Australia, one of five daughters of Nicola (née Montgomery), an executive and market researcher, and Phil Donahue, a restaurateur. Her parents named her and her sisters (Rosie Thorn, Daisy Yellow, Lily Belle, and Marigold Sun) after flowers, and their brother after Jethro Tull.
Montgomery hated school, being expelled from six private academies before finally dropping out at age 15 to pursue stage acting and to also travel around Bali with her then-boyfriend. Montgomery emigrated to the United States at age 18, arriving in Florida to meet a boy whom she'd met when he was an exchange student. After five days, she realized "I couldn't stand him" and then took a bus to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.
Montgomery has a son, Jackson Phillip Deveraux Montgomery Kaufman (born December 23, 2007) with actor Adam Kaufman. Kaufman and Montgomery met in 2005 while working on the movie Between and split in 2011.
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