Juanita Moore

Actor: Juanita Moore

Born: 1922
Occupation: Actor
Active: '50s-'70s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Imitation of Life, Abby, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Where the Woodbine Twineth
First Major Screen Credit: Imitation of Life (1959)

Biography

African-American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early '50s, a time in which few black actresses were given much to do in major-studio films. Fortunately, Juanita's roles began improving as Hollywood tentatively developed a social consciousness toward the end of the decade. In 1959, she received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Imitation of Life (1959), a glossy updating of a once-controversial Fannie Hurst novel about racial inequity. Within the next decade Hollywood underwent several sociological upheavals, and Juanita Moore was one of the beneficiaries; she became a fixture of such black-oriented films of the '70s as Uptight (1969), Thomasine and Bushrod (1974) and Abby (1974). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Juanita Moore
Juanita Moore in Imitation of Life (1959)
Born	October 19, 1922 (1922-10-19) (age 86) Los Angeles, California, United States

Juanita Moore (born October 19, 1922) is an American film and television actress. She is the fourth African American to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category, and the third in the Supporting Actress category.

Career

Moore had a number of bit parts and supporting roles in motion pictures through the 1950s and 1960s. Her most famous role was as housekeeper Annie Johnson in the 1959 remake of Imitation of Life. Moore's portrayal of the broken-hearted Annie, whose daughter Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner) passes for white, won her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. (Kohner won a nomination for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar as well.) When the two-movie version of Imitation of Life was released on DVD one of the bonus features was a new interview with Juanita Moore.

Moore has continued to perform in front of the camera, with a role in the movie Disney's The Kid (2000) and guest-starring roles on television shows Marcus Welby, M.D., ER and Judging Amy.

Moore's grandson is actor/producer Kirk Kelley-Kahn, who is CEO/President of "Cambridge Players - Next Generation", a theatre troupe whose founding members included Moore, Esther Rolle, Helen Martin, Lynn Hamilton and Royce Wallace.^[1]

References

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NAME	Moore, Juanita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actress
DATE OF BIRTH	October 19, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Los Angeles, California, United States
DATE OF DEATH
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