Venezuelan actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela 2004. During the Miss Venezuela 2004 pageant, Spear won the romero y canela para cabello crown and represented Venezuela at Miss Universe 2005 in Thailand.
15 in Miss Universe 2004, which was the first time in 22 years that Venezuela failed to place. Spear went on to place in the Top 5 after the evening gown and swimsuit competitions. Mónica Spear Mootz was born to Rafael Spear Tudares and Ingeborg Mootz Gotera. Mootz family moved to Orlando, Florida in 2000 after her mother, Ingeborg, retired from her job with an oil company in Venezuela. Her father, Rafael, is a project engineer at Siemens Westinghouse. She gave birth to a daughter later that year.
The couple divorced in 2012, but remained friendly, and at the time of their death they were attempting to reconcile. After modeling, Mother Agency Mariela Centeno, Spear became one of the most successful actresses in Venezuela for her main roles in telenovelas. Venezuelan channel Venevisión broadcast La Mujer Perfecta in honor of Spear and a foundation aid for people with Asperger syndrome. On 6 January 2014, Spear was in her native Venezuela on vacation with her ex-husband and their five-year-old daughter.