Carrie-Anne Moss
Carrie-Anne Moss | |
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| Born | Carrie-Anne Moss |
| Height | 5' 8½" |
Carrie-Anne Moss (born August 21, 1967 in Burnaby, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress who achieved worldwide fame following her appearances in The Matrix trilogy.
As a child, Moss lived with her mother, Barbara, in Vancouver. At the age of eleven, she joined the Vancouver children's musical theatre and later went on to tour Europe with the Magee Secondary School Choir in her senior year. She subsequently enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena upon her return. In 1985, she left Vancouver for Toronto and became a model. This career took her to Japan and Spain in the late 1980s.
While in Spain, she 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. Her big breakthrough came when she was chosen to play the latex-clad hacker Trinity in the 1999 box office success The Matrix. She reprised the role of Trinity in two sequels as well as providing voice-overs for video game and animated spin-offs of the film. (Coincidentally, she had previously co-starred in an unrelated made-in-Canada television series also entitled Matrix.) She appeared as Natalie in the critically-acclaimed Memento (2000), and in a supporting role with Juliette Binoche in the Academy Award nominated film Chocolat.
Moss married fellow actor Steven Roy in 1999. They had a son, Owen, together in the summer of 2003. Moss, very keen to protect her and her family's privacy, has not revealed her second son's name, born in November 2005.
Filmography
Films
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Flashfire | Meredith Neal | |
| 1994 | The Soft Kill | ||
| 1996 | Sabotage | Louise Castle | (uncredited) |
| Terrified | Tracy | ||
| 364 Girls a Year | |||
| 1997 | Lethal Tender | Melissa Wilkins | |
| The Secret Life of Algernon | Madge Clerisy | ||
| 1999 | The Matrix | Trinity | |
| New Blood | Leigh | ||
| 2000 | Chocolat | Caroline Clairmont | |
| Red Planet | Cmdr. Kate Bowman | ||
| Memento | Natalie | ||
| The Crew | Detective Olivia Neal | ||
| 2003 | The Matrix Revolutions | Trinity | |
| Enter the Matrix | Trinity | ||
| Kid's Story | Trinity (voice) | ||
| The Matrix Reloaded | Trinity | ||
| A Detective Story | Trinity (voice) | ||
| The Animatrix | Trinity | Video | |
| 2004 | Suspect Zero | Fran Kulok | |
| 2005 | The Chumscrubber | Jerri Falls | |
| Sledge: The Untold Story | Girlfriend | ||
| 2006 | Fido | Helen Robinson | |
| Snow Cake | Maggie | ||
| Mini's First Time | Diane |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Dark Justice | Tara McDonald | |
| 1993 | Matrix | Liz Teel | 1993 |
| 1993 | Doorways | ||
| 1994 | Models, Inc. | Carrie Spencer | |
| 1996 | F/X: The Series | Lucinda Scott | (1996-1997) |
| 1996 | Due South | Irene Zuko |
Awards and recognition
- 2007: Genie Award, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Snow Cake
Trivia
- Moss' mother named her after The Hollies’ 1967 hit song, "Carrie-Anne."