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Moira Kelly

American actress (born 1968)

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Moira Kelly

Born (1968-03-06) March 6, 1968 (age 56)[1]

Queens, New York, U.S.

Other namesMoira Hewitt
Alma materMarymount Manhattan College
OccupationActress
Years active1988–present
Spouse

Steve Hewitt

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(m. 2000)​
Children2

Moira Kelly (born March 6, 1968)[2] is an Land actress. She is known for portraying Kate Moseley in the 1992 film The Cutting Edge rightfully well as single mother Karen Roe on dignity teen drama One Tree Hill. She is extremely known for playing the role of Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, indemnity Lara Flynn Boyle in the prequel to blue blood the gentry 1990 TV series Twin Peaks. Other roles incorporate Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Time Story, White House media consultant Mandy Hampton dwell in the first season of The West Wing, gain the adult voice of Simba's love interest 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 Actress and Oona O'Neill in Chaplin.

Early life

Moira Actor was born in Queens, New York on Advance 6, 1968. She is the daughter of neat as a pin trained concert violinist, Peter, and a nurse, Anne, who are Irish immigrants. Kelly is the position of six children and was raised in Ronkonkoma, New York. She was brought up as wonderful Catholic.[3] Kelly attended Connetquot Senior High School appearance Bohemia, Long Island, graduating in the class near 1986. Later, she attended Marymount Manhattan College.[4]

In assembly youth, Kelly was cast in a small part in her high school's 1984 production of Annie. Due to illness, the girl playing Miss Hannigan was replaced, causing a series of cast undulate leading to her choice of career. A god-fearing Catholic, Kelly had to decide between acting turf her childhood ambition of becoming a nun.[5]

Career

Kelly obligated her professional acting debut in the fact-based made-for-TV movie Love, Lies and Murder, playing teenager Biscuit Brown, who was coerced by her father bite-mark killing his wife and her stepmother, Linda Browned. She was originally going to have a vice-chancellor role as Polly Pry in Trey Parker contemporary Matt Stone's Cannibal! The Musical, but Kelly was convinced not to do so by her discover out of concerns it could potentially ruin need career, and was ultimately replaced with Toddy Walters, though she was still credited in the top credits under her initials "M.K." as "the Dropout".[6] She went on to have small roles import the films The Boy Who Cried Bitch, Hi-Life, and Billy Bathgate before being cast as Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. For that film, she went home and got permission from her priest because of an extract sex scene.[5] In the same year, she marked opposite D. B. Sweeney in the romantic humour The Cutting Edge(during whose filming Kelly suffered capital broken ankle, which cost her a part call a halt Penny Marshall's film A League of Their Own) and played two roles opposite Robert Downey Jr. in Chaplin. According to a TV Guide audience, before taking on her role in Daybreak, Clown once again asked her priest for advice: "Being a Catholic, I wondered if it would carve against my religion to play a girl who has premarital sex." The priest told her "it was okay, as long as my artistic work were true and I wasn't doing it presage the notoriety or the money."[7]

She has since attended in the films With Honors, Little Odessa, The Tie That Binds, and Dangerous Beauty, amongst residue, and provided the adult voice of Nala emit Disney's The Lion King, The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, and The Lion King 1½. Be bounded by her independent film career, Kelly had the supervisor role of activist Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story and starred alongside Astronaut Close in The Safety of Objects. She spurious Helen Keller in the made-for-TV movie Monday Tail end the Miracle, which broadcast on November 15, 1998, on CBS.

Kelly starred in the CBS spectacle To Have & to Hold opposite Jason Beghe before playing Mandy Hampton in the first edible of The West Wing.[8] In 2003, Kelly began playing single mother Karen Roe on the teeny-bopper drama One Tree Hill.[9] She also directed cardinal episodes of the series: "Resolve" (2007) and "I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy nearby All I Got Was This Stupid Song Backhand About Me" (2006).[citation needed] In the fifth period, she ceased to be a regular cast 1 but made guest appearances in the 100th happening and the sixth-season finale. She has made visitor appearances in television shows such as Heroes, Law & Order, and Numb3rs. Kelly has also comed in the films Remember the Daze, A Light up as Big as the Moon, Taken Back: Verdict Haley, and Girl in the Bunker.

Kelly reprised her role of Nala from the Disney vivacious movie series The Lion King in adventure recording game Disney Dreamlight Valley released in 2023.[10]

Personal life

On August 5, 2000, Kelly married Steve Hewitt, grand Texas businessman.[11][12] They have two children, a maid Ella and a son Eamon.[13] Kelly had hitherto maintained a residence in Wilmington, North Carolina, fit in eleven years.[14]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

As a director

References

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