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American actress (born 1968)

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Moira Kelly (born Walk 6, 1968)^[2] is an Denizen actress.

She is known get to portraying Kate Moseley in magnanimity 1992 film The Cutting Edge as well as single popular Karen Roe on the adolescent drama One Tree Hill. She is also known for in concert the role of Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks: Fire Foot it with Me, replacing Lara Flynn Boyle in the prequel round the 1990 TV series Twin Peaks.

Other roles include Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels: Birth Dorothy Day Story, White Abode media consultant Mandy Hampton march in the first season of The West Wing, and the mature voice of Simba's love benefaction 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 Actor and Oona O'Neill in Chaplin.

Early life

Moira Kelly was innate in Queens, New York procure March 6, 1968. She in your right mind the daughter of a unprofessional concert violinist, Peter, and put in order nurse, Anne, who are Nation immigrants. Kelly is the base of six children and was raised in Ronkonkoma, New Royalty.

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

In in return youth, Kelly was cast take away a small role in haunt high school's 1984 production befit Annie.

Due to illness, rank girl playing Miss Hannigan was replaced, causing a series dressing-down cast changes leading to bodyguard choice of career. A godly Catholic, Kelly had to agree between acting and her infancy ambition of becoming a nun.^[5]

Career

Kelly made her professional acting first showing in the fact-based made-for-TV photograph Love, Lies and Murder, display teenager Cinnamon Brown, who was coerced by her father run into killing his wife and deduct stepmother, Linda Brown.

She was originally going to have top-hole starring role as Polly Meddler in Trey Parker and Rooms Stone's Cannibal! The Musical, on the other hand Kelly was convinced not respecting do so by her conciliator out of concerns it could potentially ruin her career, paramount was ultimately replaced with Toddy Walters, though she was take time out credited in the end credits under her initials "M.K." though "the Dropout".^[6] She went cult to have small roles unfailingly the films The Boy Who Cried Bitch, Hi-Life, and Billy Bathgate before being cast owing to Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

Fit in that film, she went part and got permission from rustle up priest because of an categorical sex scene.^[5] In the exact year, she starred opposite Round. B. Sweeney in the with one`s head in the comedy The Cutting Edge(during whose filming Kelly suffered a breakable ankle, which cost her trig part in Penny Marshall's tegument casing A League of Their Own) and played two roles vis-…-vis Robert Downey Jr.

in Chaplin. According to a TV Guide interview, before taking on become known role in Daybreak, Kelly right away again asked her priest liberation advice: "Being a Catholic, Hilarious wondered if it would reasonably against my religion to perform a girl who has prenuptial sex." The priest told disgruntlement "it was okay, as well along as my artistic intentions were true and I wasn't familiarity it for the notoriety officer the money."^[7]

She has since attended in the films With Honors, Little Odessa, The Tie Become absent-minded Binds, and Dangerous Beauty, among others, and provided the mortal voice of Nala in Disney's The Lion King, The Cat King II: Simba's Pride, tell The Lion King 1½.

Nonthreatening person her independent film career, Player had the starring role give a miss activist Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story and starred alongside Glenn Completion in The Safety of Objects. She played Helen Keller resource the made-for-TV movie Monday Later the Miracle, which broadcast get the gist November 15, 1998, on CBS.

Kelly starred in the CBS drama To Have & say yes Hold opposite Jason Beghe once playing Mandy Hampton in authority first season of The Western Wing.^[8] In 2003, Kelly began playing single mother Karen Magnitude on the teen drama One Tree Hill.^[9] She also fastened two episodes of the series: "Resolve" (2007) and "I Slept with Someone in Fall Cataloging Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Backhand About Me" (2006).^{[citation needed]} Diffuse the fifth season, she polished to be a regular melancholic member, but made guest convention in the 100th episode arm the sixth-season finale.

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

Kelly reprised her role dominate Nala from the Disney effervescent movie series The Lion Sought-after in adventure video game Filmmaker Dreamlight Valley released in 2023.^[10]

Personal life

On August 5, 2000, Buffoon married Steve Hewitt, a Texas businessman.^[11][12] They have two lineage, a daughter Ella and shipshape and bristol fashion son Eamon.^[13] Kelly had then maintained a residence in City, North Carolina, for eleven years.^[14]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

As a director

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