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Gender:
Female
Date of Birth:
08-21-1967
Age:
57
Place of birth:
Canada (CA)
Carrie Anne Moss
Biography
Carrie-Anne Moss is a Canadian actress best known for her role of Trinity in The Matrix trilogy of films beginning with the sci-fi action film The Matrix, her breakthrough film.
Background
Moss, Carrie-Anne was born on August 21, 1967, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Education
American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Career
She has starred in the neo-noir-psychological thriller film Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan, the sci-fi thriller Red Planet, the romantic drama Chocolat (all 2000), the indie drama Snow Cake (2006), the Hitchcockian mystery horror-thriller film Disturbia (2007) and the controversial suspense thriller Unthinkable (2010). Moss starred as Jeri Hogarth in the Netflix series Jessica Jones and reprised the role in Daredevil. She has an older brother, Brooke.
Moss" mother reportedly named her after The Hollies" 1967 hit song, "Carrie Anne," which had been released in May that year.
Moss lived with her mother in Vancouver as a child. At 11, she joined the Vancouver children"s musical theatre and later visited Europe with the Magee Secondary School Choir in her senior year.
While in Spain, Moss landed a role in the drama series Dark Justice, her first television appearance. She moved from Barcelona to Los Angeles, California, with the series in 1992.
Upon her return, she enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena.
She starred in Fox"s short-lived prime-time soap opera Models Incorporated., a spin-off of Melrose Place, as a model. However, her breakthrough role came when she was chosen to play Trinity in the 1999 box office success The Matrix. She reprised the role in two sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, and provided voiceovers for video games and animated spin-offs of the film.
Coincidentally, she had previously co-starred in an unrelated made-in-Canada television series called Matrix.
Following the release of The Matrix, Moss starred opposite Burt Reynolds and Richard Dreyfuss in the Disney mobster comedy The Crew. After that, she starred with Val Kilmer in Red Planet for Warner Brothers.
She next appeared in Miramax"s Oscar-nominated film Chocolat. In 2006 she appeared in Fido and Snow Cake, and in 2007 she appeared in the thriller Disturbia.
She voiced the character Aria in Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3.
Moss plays Jeri Hogarth in the Netflix television series based on the Marvel Comics character Jessica Jones. The show was released in November 2015 with positive critical reviews.
Achievements
Carrie-Anne Moss has been listed as a notable actress by Marquis Who's Who.
Connections
Married Steven Roy, November 1999. 2 children.
Spouse:
Steven Roy
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