Sharona Fleming is a fictional character in the USA Network television
series Monk, portrayed by Bitty Schram. Sharona is a divorced
registered nurse from New Jersey and a single mother with a young son
named Benjy. Schram was nominated for a Golden Globe for her
performance.Sharona's childhood is only mentioned during a session
with Dr. Kroger in the season 3 episode "Mr. Monk and the Girl Who
Cried Wolf". Her father, Douglas, owned a hardware store and died when
she was a child. This left her mother, Cheryl, to raise Sharona and
her younger sister, Gail (Amy Sedaris), who is an actress and appears
in the episodes "Mr. Monk and the Earthquake", where Sharona and Benjy
stay with her after their apartment is damaged by an earthquake, and
"Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater", where she is framed for the death of
her costar during a theatrical performance.Sharona's childhood is only
mentioned during a session with Dr. Kroger in the season 3 episode
"Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf". Her father, Douglas, owned a
hardware store and died when she was a child. This left her mother,
Cheryl, to raise Sharona and her younger sister, Gail (Amy Sedaris),
who is an actress and appears in the episodes "Mr. Monk and the
Earthquake", where Sharona and Benjy stay with her after their
apartment is damaged by an earthquake, and "Mr. Monk Goes to the
Theater", where she is framed for the death of her costar during a
theatrical performance.The season 2 episode "Mr. Monk Meets the
Playboy" reveals that Sharona had married Trevor out of high school,
but it did not last long, leaving her with an infant, Benjy, to raise
on her own. When Benjy was one, she did some nude modeling under a
pseudonym in Atlantic City, revealed to Monk in that episode when
Dexter Larsen threatens to publish these photos to keep Monk from
investigating him further. In the season 1 episode "Mr. Monk Meets
Dale the Whale", Dale "the Whale" Biederbeck asks Sharona if she is
"still making house calls," to which Sharona replies that "she doesn't
do that kinda stuff anymore," implying that at one point she used her
LPN training to do home health care.It was also stated that Sharona
was a registered nurse before becoming Monk's practical nurse. In "Mr.
Monk and the Captain's Wife", Sharona noted that she was a resident
nurse and interned with the doctors who were going to operate on
Stottlemeyer's wife. In "Mr. Monk Gets Fired", after Monk's
investigation license is temporarily suspended, she temporarily
returns to work as a nurse. When Sharona returns in season 8 for "Mr.
Monk and Sharona", she has re-divorced Trevor, and is now an
administrator at a veterans hospital in New Jersey. Sharona Fleming Top Movies & Young Movies