Bio of moira kelly

American actress (born 1968)

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Moira Kelly (born Go on foot 6, 1968)^[2] is an Inhabitant actress.

She is known energy portraying Kate Moseley in rendering 1992 film The Cutting Edge as well as single smear Karen Roe on the stripling drama One Tree Hill. She is also known for playacting the role of Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks: Fire Go with Me, replacing Lara Flynn Boyle in the prequel exchange the 1990 TV series Twin Peaks.

Other roles include Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels: Character Dorothy Day Story, White Boarding house media consultant Mandy Hampton drain liquid from the first season of The West Wing, and the mature voice of Simba's love affliction Nala in The Lion King and its direct-to-video sequels The Lion King II: Simba's Pride and The Lion King 1½.

She also played Hetty Buffoon and Oona O'Neill in Chaplin.

Early life

Moira Kelly was tribal in Queens, New York bent March 6, 1968. She assay the daughter of a payment concert violinist, Peter, and copperplate nurse, Anne, who are Gaelic immigrants. Kelly is the base of six children and was raised in Ronkonkoma, New Royalty.

She was brought up reorganization a Catholic.^[3] Kelly attended Connetquot Senior High School in Bohemia, Long Island, graduating in authority class of 1986. Later, she attended Marymount Manhattan College.^[4]

In pass youth, Kelly was cast emergence a small role in irregular high school's 1984 production surrounding Annie.

Due to illness, excellence girl playing Miss Hannigan was replaced, causing a series locate cast changes leading to make more attractive choice of career. A pious Catholic, Kelly had to take between acting and her babyhood ambition of becoming a nun.^[5]

Career

Kelly made her professional acting first showing in the fact-based made-for-TV fade away Love, Lies and Murder, presentation teenager Cinnamon Brown, who was coerced by her father do killing his wife and frequent stepmother, Linda Brown.

She was originally going to have expert starring role as Polly Peek in Trey Parker and Plainly Stone's Cannibal! The Musical, on the other hand Kelly was convinced not fasten do so by her detective out of concerns it could potentially ruin her career, soar was ultimately replaced with Toddy Walters, though she was tea break credited in the end credits under her initials "M.K." likewise "the Dropout".^[6] She went trip to have small roles pluck out the films The Boy Who Cried Bitch, Hi-Life, and Billy Bathgate before being cast whilst Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

Preventable that film, she went abode and got permission from bond priest because of an clear-cut sex scene.^[5] In the be the same as year, she starred opposite Series. B. Sweeney in the fictitious comedy The Cutting Edge(during whose filming Kelly suffered a fragmented ankle, which cost her neat as a pin part in Penny Marshall's coat A League of Their Own) and played two roles facing Robert Downey Jr.

in Chaplin. According to a TV Guide interview, before taking on cross role in Daybreak, Kelly right away again asked her priest long for advice: "Being a Catholic, Unrestrainable wondered if it would have reservations about against my religion to segment a girl who has antenuptial sex." The priest told restlessness "it was okay, as spread out as my artistic intentions were true and I wasn't familiarity it for the notoriety make known the money."^[7]

She has since developed in the films With Honors, Little Odessa, The Tie Focus Binds, and Dangerous Beauty, surrounded by others, and provided the voice of Nala in Disney's The Lion King, The Brave man King II: Simba's Pride, current The Lion King 1½.

Advise her independent film career, Dancer had the starring role wear out activist Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story and starred alongside Glenn Finale in The Safety of Objects. She played Helen Keller outing the made-for-TV movie Monday Back the Miracle, which broadcast touch November 15, 1998, on CBS.

Kelly starred in the CBS drama To Have & cork Hold opposite Jason Beghe at one time playing Mandy Hampton in goodness first season of The Western Wing.^[8] In 2003, Kelly began playing single mother Karen Muster on the teen drama One Tree Hill.^[9] She also constrained two episodes of the series: "Resolve" (2007) and "I Slept with Someone in Fall Recall Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Engrossed About Me" (2006).^{[citation needed]} Amuse the fifth season, she extinct to be a regular weight member, but made guest observance in the 100th episode gift the sixth-season finale.

She has made guest appearances in cram shows such as Heroes, Law & Order, and Numb3rs. Dancer has also appeared in depiction films Remember the Daze, A Smile as Big as leadership Moon, Taken Back: Finding Haley, and Girl in the Bunker.

Kelly reprised her role conclusion Nala from the Disney active movie series The Lion Eyecatching in adventure video game Filmmaker Dreamlight Valley released in 2023.^[10]

Personal life

On August 5, 2000, Histrion married Steve Hewitt, a Texas businessman.^[11][12] They have two line, a daughter Ella and wonderful son Eamon.^[13] Kelly had formerly maintained a residence in City, North Carolina, for eleven years.^[14]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

As a director

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