Best Known As: The actress who played Trinity in The Matrix and its sequels
Carrie-Anne Moss played tough and tender Trinity in the trilogy of movies starting with The Matrix (1999, with Keanu Reeves). A native of British Columbia, she broke into the entertainment business as a model. Work in Europe led to a TV role in 1991's Dark Justice, an American television series produced in Spain. The production relocated to Los Angeles and Moss followed, subsequently working on stage and in television until being cast in The Matrix as Trinity, the sleek tutor, fellow freedom-fighter, and lover to Reeve's heroic Neo. In 2000 Moss appeared in three other high-profile movies, Red Planet (co-starring Benjamin Bratt), Memento, and Chocolat (starring Juliette Binoche). She also starred in the sequels The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (also 2003). She returned to the big screen in 2004's Suspect Zero (with Ben Kingsley), and in 2007 appeared in both Normal and Disturbia (with Shia LaBeouf).
Moss is married to the actor Steven Roy. They have two sons, born in 2003 and 2005; according to IMDB.com, Moss and Roy have never publicly announced the boys' names.
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, a film that failed to excite either audiences or critics. Over the next three years, Moss could primarily be seen in supporting roles in small indie films like Mini's First Time and Fido. And while those films largely failed to garner audience attention, Moss received high marks for the Canadian drama Snow Cake. Also starring Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver, the film netted several 2007 Genie Award nominations, but only won one: Best Supporting Actress, which went to Moss.
In addition to the critical praise drawn for her role in Snow Cake, 2007 also gave Moss her first taste of financial success since the Matrix films with the surprise-hit thriller Disturbia. A thinly-veiled teenage retread of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 masterpiece Rear Window, the film casts Shia La Beouf (Even Stevens) as a teen bereft of his father, who decks his Spanish teacher for making an acid-mouthed remark about dad, and ends up under house arrest with an ankle bracelet that will alert the cops if he attempts to leave. Confined to his room, he begins spying out the window and becomes utterly convinced that the neighbor man is hacking up his lovely young dates and disposing of them, right and left. Moss plays his sexy mother, who evinces great concern over her son's constant regression. Fortunately for Moss (and La Beouf) the film became an unqualified money machine, clocking in as #1 at the box office for several consecutive weeks.
The actress followed this up with the gently tragic, slice-of-life drama Fireflies in the Garden (2008), joining Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds and Emily Watson in the story of family members who grapple with their feelings of love and commitment to one another when a devastating crisis occurs. Newcomer Dennis Lee directs. ~ Rebecca Flint, All Movie Guide
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.)
Moss married fellow actor Steven Roy in 1999. They had a son, Owen, in September of 2003. Moss is very keen to protect her and
her family's privacy and has not released the name of her other child to the public.
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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