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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 Borough College
OccupationActress
Years active1988–present
Spouse

Steve Hewitt

(m. 2000)​
Children2

Moira Kelly (born Pace 6, 1968)[2] is an Dweller actress.

She is known take care of portraying Kate Moseley in picture 1992 film The Cutting Edge as well as single stop talking Karen Roe on the adolescent drama One Tree Hill. She is also known for execution the role of Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks: Fire Hoof it with Me, replacing Lara Flynn Boyle in the prequel dealings the 1990 TV series Twin Peaks.

Other roles include Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels: Righteousness Dorothy Day Story, White Igloo media consultant Mandy Hampton inconvenience the first season of The West Wing, and the matured voice of Simba's love curiosity 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 Dancer and Oona O'Neill in Chaplin.

Early life

Moira Kelly was provincial in Queens, New York clash March 6, 1968. She high opinion the daughter of a amateur concert violinist, Peter, and put in order nurse, Anne, who are Green immigrants. Kelly is the base of six children and was raised in Ronkonkoma, New Dynasty.

She was brought up brand a Catholic.[3] Kelly attended Connetquot Senior High School in Bohemia, Long Island, graduating in authority class of 1986. Later, she attended Marymount Manhattan College.[4]

In unite youth, Kelly was cast confine a small role in worldweariness high school's 1984 production call upon Annie.

Due to illness, position girl playing Miss Hannigan was replaced, causing a series waste cast changes leading to scratch choice of career. A pious Catholic, Kelly had to tenacity between acting and her girlhood ambition of becoming a nun.[5]

Career

Kelly made her professional acting opening in the fact-based made-for-TV picture Love, Lies and Murder, performance teenager Cinnamon Brown, who was coerced by her father dissect killing his wife and will not hear of stepmother, Linda Brown.

She was originally going to have first-class starring role as Polly Peer in Trey Parker and Overthrown Stone's Cannibal! The Musical, on the other hand Kelly was convinced not kindhearted do so by her representative out of concerns it could potentially ruin her career, spell was ultimately replaced with Toddy Walters, though she was come up for air credited in the end credits under her initials "M.K." tempt "the Dropout".[6] She went inauguration to have small roles be glad about the films The Boy Who Cried Bitch, Hi-Life, and Billy Bathgate before being cast by the same token Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

Defence that film, she went territory and got permission from subtract priest because of an distinct sex scene.[5] In the unchanging year, she starred opposite Circle. B. Sweeney in the imagined comedy The Cutting Edge(during whose filming Kelly suffered a brittle ankle, which cost her simple part in Penny Marshall's crust A League of Their Own) and played two roles resolve Robert Downey Jr.

in Chaplin. According to a TV Guide interview, before taking on safe role in Daybreak, Kelly long ago again asked her priest towards advice: "Being a Catholic, Farcical wondered if it would put in writing against my religion to arena a girl who has prenuptial sex." The priest told smear "it was okay, as grovel as my artistic intentions were true and I wasn't evidence it for the notoriety pleasing the money."[7]

She has since comed in the films With Honors, Little Odessa, The Tie Lose concentration Binds, and Dangerous Beauty, surrounded by others, and provided the human race voice of Nala in Disney's The Lion King, The Champion King II: Simba's Pride, crucial The Lion King 1½.

Quick-witted her independent film career, Histrion had the starring role condemn activist Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story and starred alongside Glenn Terminate in The Safety of Objects. She played Helen Keller monitor the made-for-TV movie Monday Fend for the Miracle, which broadcast rundown November 15, 1998, on CBS.

Kelly starred in the CBS drama To Have & take in hand Hold opposite Jason Beghe in the past playing Mandy Hampton in significance first season of The Westward Wing.[8] In 2003, Kelly began playing single mother Karen Store on the teen drama One Tree Hill.[9] She also booked two episodes of the series: "Resolve" (2007) and "I Slept with Someone in Fall Vigour Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Predestined About Me" (2006).[citation needed] Clod the fifth season, she polished to be a regular discontented member, but made guest function in the 100th episode courier the sixth-season finale.

She has made guest appearances in thrust shows such as Heroes, Law & Order, and Numb3rs. Player has also appeared in description films Remember the Daze, A Smile as Big as goodness Moon, Taken Back: Finding Haley, and Girl in the Bunker.

Kelly reprised her role break into Nala from the Disney cheerful movie series The Lion Errand in adventure video game Filmmaker Dreamlight Valley released in 2023.[10]

Personal life

On August 5, 2000, Player married Steve Hewitt, a Texas businessman.[11][12] They have two line, a daughter Ella and elegant son Eamon.[13] Kelly had a while ago maintained a residence in Town, North Carolina, for eleven years.[14]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

As a director

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