Moira Kelly

Moira Kelly

Stats

Measurements: 32-23-33
Height: 5'4"
Date of birth: 3/6/1968
Eye color: Brown
Hair Color: Brunette
Ethnicity: American
Job: actress


Bio

Moira Kelly is an Irish-American actress and director. She is known for her role as Mandy Hampton in television series The West Wing (1999–2000) and as Karen Roe on One Tree Hill (2003–2009). She also directed two episodes of the series: Resolve (2007) and I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me (2006).

Kelly made her professional acting debut in the made-for-TV movie Love, Lies and Murder, playing a teenage murderer. She went on to have small roles in the films The Boy Who Cried Bitch 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 explicit sex scene.

In the same year she starred opposite DB Sweeney in the romantic comedy The Cutting Edge and played two roles opposite Robert Downey, Jr. in Chaplin. According to a TV Guide interview, before taking on her role in Daybreak, Kelly once again asked her priest for advice: "Being a Catholic, I wondered if it would be against my religion to play a girl who has premarital sex." The priest told her "it was okay, as long as my artistic intentions were true and I wasn't doing it for the notoriety or the money."

She has since appeared in the movies With Honors, Little Odessa, The Tie That Binds and Dangerous Beauty amongst others, and provided the adult voice of Nala in Disney's The Lion King, The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, and The Lion King 1½. In her independent film career, Kelly had the starring role of activist Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story and starred alongside Glenn Close in The Safety of Objects. She played Helen Keller in the made-for-TV movie Monday After the Miracle, which broadcast on November 15, 1998 on CBS.

Kelly starred in the CBS drama To Have & to Hold opposite Jason Beghe before playing Mandy Hampton in the first season of The West Wing. In 2003 Kelly began playing single mother Karen Roe on the teen drama One Tree Hill. In the fifth season she ceased to be a regular cast member but made a guest appearance in the 100th episode.
In 2007 Kelly appeared in the independent teen drama film Remember The Daze. In 2009 she joined the cast of Heroes V4 Fugitives, and will star in the epic dark comedy/mystery, City of Shoulders and Noses.


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