Moira Kelly
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Moira Kelly (born March 6, 1968) is an American actress.
She is best known for portraying Kate Moseley in the 1992 film The Cutting Edge, as well as single mother Karen Roe on the teen drama One Tree Hill.
She is also known for playing the role of Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, replacing Lara Flynn Boyle in the prequel to the 1990 TV series Twin Peaks.
Other roles include Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story, White House media consultant Mandy Hampton in the first season of The West Wing, and the voice of Simba's love interest Nala in The Lion King and its sequels The Lion King II: Simba's Pride and The Lion King 1 1/2.
She also played Hetty Kelly and Oona O'Neill in Chaplin.
Early life
Kelly was born in Queens, New York, a daughter of Irish immigrants. Her father, Peter, was trained as a concert violinist, and her mother, Anne, is a nurse. Kelly is the third of six children and was raised in Ronkonkoma. She was brought up as a Catholic. Kelly attended Connetquot Senior High School in Bohemia, Long Island, graduating in the class of 1986. Later, she attended Marymount Manhattan College.
In her youth, Kelly was cast in a small role in her high school's 1984 production of Annie. Due to illness, the girl playing Miss Hannigan was replaced, causing a series of cast changes leading to her choice of career. A devout Catholic, Kelly had to decide between acting and her childhood ambition of becoming a nun.
Personal life
On August 5, 2000, Kelly married Steve Hewitt, a Texas businessman. They have two children: daughter Ella and son Eamon. Kelly previously maintained a residence in Wilmington, North Carolina, for eleven years. They currently reside in Flower Mound, Texas.
Career
Kelly made her acting debut in Love, Lies and Murder, a fact-based made-for-TV film starring young Cinnamon Brown, who was coerced by her father into murdering his wife and her stepmother, Linda Brown. Polly Pry was supposed to appear in Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Cannibal as Polly Pry. Kelly was encouraged not to do so by her agent out of fears that it might end her career, and she was eventually replaced by Toddy Walters, although she was still listed in the end credits under her initials "M.K." "The Dropout" is the product of "the Dropout." She went on to appear in The Boy Who Cried Bitch, Hi-Life, and Billy Bathgate before being cast as Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. She went home and asked permission from her priest in the film because of a specific sex scene. She appeared opposite D. B. Sweeney in The Cutting Edge in the romantic comedy The Cutting Edge and in Chaplin, opposite Robert Downey Jr. Kelly asked her priest for assistance during her Daybreak appearance: "Being a Catholic, I wondered if it would be against my faith to play a girl with premarital sex," she said in a TV Guide interview. "It was okay, as long as my artistic intentions were valid, and I wasn't doing it for the sake of notoriety or money," the priest told her.
She has appeared in the films With Honors, Little Odessa, The Tie That Binds, and Dangerous Beauty, among other things, and she has appeared in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, and The Lion King 1112. Kelly played Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story and starred Glenn Close in The Safety of Objects in her early films career. Helen Keller appeared in the made-for-TV film After the Miracle, which premiered on November 15, 1998 on CBS, she played Helen Keller.
Kelly starred in the CBS drama To Have & Hold before playing Mandy Hampton in the first season of The West Wing. Kelly became a single mother Karen Roe in 2003 on the teen drama One Tree Hill. "I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me" (2006) was also directed by her. She didn't ceased to be a regular cast member in the fifth season, but she did guest appearances in the 100th episode and the sixth-season finale. She has appeared in television shows including Heroes, Law & Order, and Numb3rs. Kelly has appeared in the films Remember the Daze, A Smile As Big as the Moon, Taken Back: Finding Haley, and Girl in the Bunker.