- Birth nameChristopher Wesley Moore
- Height5′ 8½″ (1.74 m)
- Christopher Wesley Moore is an award-winning writer, director, and actor from Mississippi who has been obsessed with movies for as long as he can remember. At just four years old, seeing Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in a theater completely blew his mind and sparked a lifelong love of storytelling, larger-than-life characters, and the magic of cinema.
By the age of ten, he was already making movies with his classmates using the family camcorder - pulling friends, relatives, and anyone willing into whatever wild story he had dreamed up that week.
By eighteen, Moore had completed three independent feature films before attending the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he continued developing his voice as a filmmaker. After returning home to Mississippi, he began creating a body of work that blends horror, dark comedy, Southern Gothic storytelling, and queer themes with equal parts sincerity, suspense, and mischief.
His films, including Children of Sin and When the Trash Man Knocks, have earned attention for their stylish visuals, emotionally messy characters, and willingness to tackle repression, loneliness, identity, and trauma through the lens of genre cinema. Whether frightening audiences, making them laugh, or breaking their hearts a little, Moore continues to approach filmmaking with the same excitement he had as a kid picking up a camcorder for the first time.
- IMDb mini biography by: CWM Entertainment
- [on his character, Ryan, in Perversion] I really don't think there's much of Ryan in me. I've never been through anything like what he's been through. I do think the character has a big heart, though. I admire that. He really loves his brother and his friends so much. I guess I can relate to that.
- [on his love for horror films] My late father and I would watch these films every Friday and Saturday night together. Looking back, it's some of the best memories I have of my Dad. He'd lead me into darkness, we'd face my fears together, and discuss them the next morning over breakfast at Waffle House.
- [on growing up terrified of scary movies] I was not a fan of scary things. I remember going to see The Swan Princess at my local multiplex and almost having a panic attack when I discovered Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was playing right next door. Somewhere in my tiny little mind, I thought my parents might get confused and walk into that auditorium instead.
- [on where his love for horror started] I think the love of horror really came from my love of fairy tales back in the day. I was never a fan of the glossy, sugary Disney versions, although I did enjoy them an awful lot. What I remember most are the countless volumes of these stories that I'd check out at my local library. The REAL versions! The Grimm brothers versions! I just loved the villains. They were so much more dimensional than the heroes and heroines. Even before I knew what real horror was, I was drawn to stories like that.
- [on his first scary movie experience] The first horror films I can remember seeing all the way through were Psycho and House of Wax when I was around 5 or 6 years old. Before then, if I saw a poster, video tape, or a TV spot for a horror film, I'd rush out of the room, terrified, and then have nightmares about it for weeks.
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