Table of Biography
Moira Kelly is a popular actress from the United States. Moira Kelly is widely known for her role as Kate Moseley in the movie “The Cutting Edge” (1992).
Early Life
On the 6th of March 1968, Moira Kelly was born in Queens, New York, the United States of America. Currently, this actress is 55 years old and has a zodiac sign of Pisces. She has her belief in Christianity while her ethnic background is still unknown at the moment.
Kelly was born to her parents; Peter Kelly (father) and Anne Kelly (mother). By profession, her father is a concert violinist while her mother was a nurse. Meanwhile, she is the third of six children of her parents. However, she has not yet mentioned her siblings’ names in any kind of interview. She along with her other siblings was raised in Ronkonkoma, a hamlet in Long Island, New York.
Moving on to her academic qualification, she went to Connetquot Senior High School and completed her graduation in 1986. Afterward, she went to Marymount Manhattan College. During her college years, she did several odd jobs to support herself.
Professional Career
Moira Kelly started acting during her school years. In 1984, she had a small part in her high school’s production of “Annie.” Due to illness, the girl playing Miss Hannigan was replaced, resulting in a series of cast changes that led to her career choice. Kelly, a devout Catholic, had to choose between acting and her childhood dream of becoming a nun.
She made her television debut in the 1991 miniseries “Love, Lies, and Murder,” playing Cinnamon Brown. Moreover, she made her film debut in Juan José Campanella’s drama thriller “The Boy Who Cried Bitch.” When she landed the role of Donna Hayward in “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me” (1992), she approached her priest for permission to participate in an explicit sex scene.
Caption: The poster of the 1992 movie, The Cutting Edge (Source: IMDb)
That same year, she co-starred in the romantic comedy “The Cutting Edge” with D. B. Sweeney and played two roles in the biopic “Chaplin,” including Oona O’Neill Chaplin. She spoke to her priest once more for her 1993 TV movie “Daybreak,” in which she played a girl who has premarital sex.
Moreover, she played Simba’s love interest Nala as an adult in Disney’s “The Lion King” (1994), “The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride” (1998), and “The Lion King ½” (2004). She also voiced Simba in the video games “Animated StoryBook: The Lion King” (1994) and “The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride Active Play” (1998).
Other television works
Kelly has also been very active in the indie scene. In “Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story” (1996), she played social activist Dorothy Day, and in “The Safety of Objects” (2001), she co-starred with Glenn Close. In the TV movie “Monday After the Miracle,” she played Helen Keller. She played Annie Cornell in CBS’s short-lived drama series “To Have & to Hold” in 1998.
In Aaron Sorkin’s “The West Wing,” she played the recurring character Mandy Hampton. She played the episode antagonist in a season 18 episode of “Law & Order” in 2008. Moreover, she had previously appeared in an episode of the show’s second season as an uncredited policewoman.
In 2014, she reprised her role as Donna Hayward in “Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces,” a feature-length collection of deleted and extended scenes from “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.” Some of his recent television appearances are “The Resident” (2019), and “Panic” (2021).
Kelly also directed two episodes of the show, “Resolve” (2007) and “I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me” (2006).
Awards
Moira Kelly has worked in several television series and movies. Throughout her acting career, she has earned a couple of awards as of now. In 2001, she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for
Net Worth 2024
This American actress earns a large income from her successful acting career. As of 2024, her net worth is estimated at around $2 million while her exact salary and income have not been revealed.
Relationship Status
Caption: Moira Kelly with her co-actors and friends at a gathering (Source: The Family Nation)
On the 5th of August 2000, Moira Kelly married a Texan businessman, Stephen Eric Hewitt. With the marriage, the couple has two children, Ella and Eamon. Kelly previously lived in Wilmington, North Carolina, for eleven years. The family now lives in Flower Mound, Texas.
Body Measurement
This beautiful woman stands 5 feet 4 inches tall (1.63 m) and weighs around 54 kg (119 lbs). Moreover, she has dark brown hair with a pair of blue eyes color. Similarly, her body measurement measures 32-23-33 inches, wears a shoe size of 6 US, and a dress size of 4 US.
Social Media
Moira Kelly is quite a private person and is not active on social media websites.