Biography

Mandy Moore

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Born
April 10, 1984 · Nashua, New Hampshire, USA
Birth name
Amanda Leigh Moore
Height
5′ 10″ (1.78 m)

Biography

Amanda Leigh Moore was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, on April 10, 1984, to Stacy (Friedman), a former news reporter, and Don Moore, an airline pilot. During her childhood, her family moved to Orlando, Florida, where she was raised. She has Russian Jewish (from her maternal grandfather), English, Scottish, and Irish, ancestry.

After seeing the musical "Oklahoma!", she decided that she wanted to pursue a career in singing. As a child, she performed the National Anthem at several athletic events around her hometown of Orlando, Florida, and became known as the "National Anthem girl". At the ripe age of fourteen, while she was recording in a studio in Orlando, a Fed-Ex worker who happened to be passing through heard her and was interested in her talent. He happened to know someone at Sony as well. Moore worked on cutting a demo and shortly thereafter signed a record deal with Sony 550 Music. At 15, her first record "So Real" was released. Her first tour was with the Backstreet Boys.

As her touring and recording schedule demanded more of her time, Moore withdrew from Bishop Moore Catholic High School in Orlando and opted for a tutor/correspondence. She has stated that her education is important to her and says that the fact that she wants to go to college motivates her to continue with her schooling.

Though Moore's record sales were not up in the ranks of Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera, she has proved to be a formidable talent both in singing and in acting, and snagged an MTV Movie Award in June 2002 for her first feature film role in A Walk to Remember (2002). Her biggest dream, though, is to perform on Broadway someday.

Throughout the 2000s, Mandy headlined several films, ranging from the little-seen drama All I Want (2002) to mid-level releases like How to Deal (2003), Chasing Liberty (2004), Racing Stripes (2005), and the more broadly comedic Because I Said So (2007) and License to Wed (2007). She also appeared in the odd-ball sci-fi film Southland Tales (2006), and voiced Rapunzel in the Disney blockbuster CGI animation Tangled (2010).

In the mid 2010s, she re-emerged as a star actress, headlining the show This Is Us (2016) and the hit thriller film 47 Meters Down (2017), with more film roles to come.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

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Trademarks

Her beautiful singing voice
Often plays kind, sweet-natured characters.
Often appears in drama films.

Trivia

Her grandmother was a professional ballerina in London.
Left high school half way through her freshman year.
Often refers with self-deprecating humor to her size 10 feet.
Was age 17 at the time of filming A Walk to Remember (2002) and had a private tutor on the set.
She gave a complimentary concert at the senior prom for the 2007 graduating class of Enterprise High School in Enterprise, Alabama, after a tornado tore through the school killing eight students on March 1, 2007.

Quotes

I like older boys, but they think, "She's under age." I'd love to have somebody in mind when I sing.
When people come up to me and say, "You made it," I think, "But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music." I want to be a household name.
I'm not comfortable doing that. You shouldn't send that message out, that tight clothes are what get you the attention. If it works for them, fine. But it's not for me. - on the prospect of her dressing in revealing outfits similar to those of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.
I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model'. I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
People tend to see you in one light, and don't think you can play people who are unlike who you are.