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Carrie-Anne Moss (born August 21, 1967)
is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Trinity
in The Matrix trilogy.
Early life: Moss was born in Burnaby, British
Columbia. She has an older brother, Brooke. Moss's
mother named her after The Hollies’ 1967 hit song,
"Carrie-Anne". As a child, Moss lived with her
mother, Barbara, in Vancouver, after her parents
divorced.
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 attended high school with Gil
Bellows. 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.
Career: 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.)
Exhibiting both grit and steely, almost otherworldly
beauty, Canadian actress Carrie-Anne Moss rapidly
ascended from obscurity to international stardom as the
latex-clad cyber warrior Trinity in the Wachowski
brothers' The Matrix.
Moss' striking performance led many viewers to question
where she had been all these years; like many other
fledgling Hollywood actresses, she had done time as a
model and an actress in second-rate films while waiting
for her big break.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on August 21, 1967,
Moss decided that she wanted to be an actress at an
early age. The youngest of two children raised by a
single mother, she grew up taking acting classes, and at
the age of 20, she left Canada to pursue a career as a
model. During a modeling stint in Spain, Moss managed to
land a role on the TV serial Dark Justice. Upon her
return to North America, she moved to L.A. and was cast
on the Aaron Spelling series Models Inc.
After making her film debut in 1996's Sabotage, Moss
continued to do TV work (most notably on the
Toronto-based F/X: The Series) and appeared in fairly
obscure films.
Thanks to her starring role in The Matrix in 1999, Moss
was soon in great demand. In 2000 alone, she could be
seen in no less than four films, including the action
comedy The Crew, Red Planet, and as a bartender with
questionable motives in director Christopher Nolan's
unconventional breakthrough, Memento.
Subsequently taking another stab at sci-fi opposite Val
Kilmer in Red Planet, Moss would next appear in Lasse
Hallstrom's romantic drama Chocolat before stepping back
into her vinyl bodysuit for The Matrix Reloaded and The
Matrix Revolutions (both 2003).
With the Matrix sequels behind her, Moss next starred
opposite Aaron Eackhart in the serial-killer thriller
Suspect Zero before becoming involved with another
high-profile franchise with a role in the highly
anticipated Mission: Impossible 3.
Following the release of the The Matrix, Moss was hired
for starring roles in four films. First, audiences saw
her star opposite Burt Reynolds and Richard Dreyfuss in
the Disney mobster comedy The Crew for producers Barry
Sonnenfeld and Barry Josephson. Then they saw her star
with Val Kilmer in Red Planet for Warner Bros. for
producer Mark Canton. She then co-starred opposite
Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp and Dame Judi Dench in
Miramax’s Oscar-nominated film Chocolat for director
Lasse Hallstrom and producer David Brown. Next she
starred with Guy Pearce in the independent thriller
Memento for which Carrie-Anne earned an Independent
Spirit Award.
Personal life: Moss married fellow actor Steven
Roy in 1999. They had a son together at the end of 2003.
Moss, very keen to protect her and her family's privacy,
has not revealed the names of either of her sons, the
second born in November 2005. Moss's best friend is
actress Maria Bello, who is the godmother of Moss's
first son. Moss is the godmother of Bello's son, Jack. |
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