Carrie-Anne Moss

Birthday: 21 August 1967, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Height: 174 cm

Carrie-Anne Moss was born on August 21, 1967, in Vancouver, British Columbia, the youngest of two children of Barbara and Melvyn Moss. At age 20, she moved to Europe to pursue a career in modeling; in Spain she was cast in a regular role in the TV show Dark Justice (1991), which was produced in Barcelona for its first season, and she followed it to the shooting locations in Los Angeles the next year. Later she appeared in numerous commercials and TV series, including Matrix (1993), which coincidentally presaged the movie that would make her famous, as well as Models Inc. (1994) and F/X: The Series (1996).Moss got an unexpected and high-profile breakthrough when she was cast as the character Trinity in The Matrix (1999) opposite Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne. Her imposing, sympathetic, and athletic performance in the alternate-world, science-fiction action film immediately thrust her into the spotlight and brought her roles in a number of mainstream Hollywood films, including mob comedy The Crew (2000), sci-fi thriller Red Planet (2000), and serial killer drama Suspect Zero (2004). Although she also appeared in the subsequent Matrix sequels The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003) (and provided the voices for the video games inspired by the films), Moss cultivated a rich and varied career in independent films. She played an unhappily-married housewife in the Oscar-nominated drama Chocolat (2000), and starred opposite Guy Pearce in Christopher Nolan's backwards-told thriller Memento (2000), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress. Other notable indie films included The Chumscrubber (2005), Mini's First Time (2006), Snow Cake (2006), and Fireflies in the Garden (2008).Moss later appeared as Shia LaBeouf's mother in the surprise box office hit Disturbia (2007) and co-starred in the direct-to-DVD thriller Unthinkable (2010) before undertaking a successful guest-star run on the NBC action comedy Chuck (2007). Most recently, she returned to the world of alternate realities with the horror film Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (2012).Moss married actor Steven Roy in 1999, and the couple have two sons and a daughter. Show less «

I've always been that girl. Tell me that I can't do something and I'll do it.

I wouldn't play another character like Trinity out of respect to her and respect to the film. I don'...Show more »

I wouldn't play another character like Trinity out of respect to her and respect to the film. I don't want to be the leather-clad, kicking-butt girl with another name. It would be like cheating on Trinity. Show less «

A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harde...Show more »

A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy. Show less «

I don't have issues with playing moms. When a role is well-written, whatever it is, it's just about ...Show more »

I don't have issues with playing moms. When a role is well-written, whatever it is, it's just about playing the truth of the character. I always wanted to be a mother. I love it. Show less «

"After The Matrix (1999), I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me".

[in 2014] Yes I'm still in contact with my Matrix family. Life gets busy for all of us but the conne...Show more »

[in 2014] Yes I'm still in contact with my Matrix family. Life gets busy for all of us but the connection is always there. Show less «

To be honest, I didn't find it that difficult to get past The Matrix. I never felt typecast at all.

I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them...Show more »

I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece. Show less «

I think dreams are important to inspire us to get out of bed every morning.

Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this k...Show more »

Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though -- I'll tell anyone anything. My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story. Show less «

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