Moira Kelly
Moira Kelly (born March 6, 1968) is an American actress. She is known for portraying Kate Moseley in the 1992 film The Cutting Edge as well as single mother Karen Roe on the teen drama One Tree Hill. She is also known for playing the role of Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, replacing Lara Flynn Boyle in the prequel to the 1990 TV series Twin Peaks. Other roles include Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story, White House media consultant Mandy Hampton in the first season of The West Wing, and the voice of Simba's love interest Nala in The Lion King and its sequels The Lion King II: Simba's Pride and The Lion King 1 1/2. She also played Hetty Kelly and Oona O'Neill in Chaplin.
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| Full name at birth | Moira Kelly
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| Claim to fame | Kate Moseley In The Cutting Edge (1992), Courtney Blumenthal In With Honors (1994), Mandy Hampton On The West Wing (1999-2000).
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| Date of birth | 6 March 1968
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| Place of birth | Queens, New York City, New York, USA
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| Height | 5' 4" (163 cm)
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| Net worth | $2,000,000 USD
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| High school | Connetquot High School, Bohemia, Long Island, New York, United States (1986)
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| University | Marymount Manhattan College, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
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- Was cast by director James Gray in Little Odessa (1994) because he was impressed by her performance in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992).
- She was initially contracted to play Polly Pry, the female lead in Trey Parker's Alferd Packer: The Musical (1996) but pulled out because she feared it would damage her serious movie career.
- When cast in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), she came home to get permission from her priest to do her first sexual scene.
- During the shooting of the film The Cutting Edge (1992) she spent over two months in figure skate training with her co-star D.B. Sweeney, they became close friends and remain so to this day.
- Her husband is a Texas businessman and she has two children by him. Her daughter is named Ella and was born in 2001, her son is named Eamon and was born in 2003.
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