Named after the hit Hollies song, Carrie-Anne Moss was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the youngest of two children. At the age of 11, Moss was starring in children's musical theate, and during her senior year, at the exclusive Magee Secondary, she was chosen to tour Europe with the school choir. After a taste of celebrity life, she set out on her own to become a model. Success was almost immediate and it wasn't long until she landed modeling jobs in Toronto, Japan, and then in Spain, where she launched her career, which spanned Europe and Japan. By the age of 20, she had appeared in countless magazines around the world. article continued below...

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• Crash Course (2003) (V) .... Herself

While modeling in Spain, she landed her first acting job with the Lorimar/CBS late night series Dark Justice(1991) as Tara McDonald. When the show's production moved to L.A. after a season, Moss headed to California in search of greener acting pastures.

In L.A., Moss refined her acting skills by appearing in several films and guesting on TV shows. She landed a starring role on Aaron Spelling's primetime soap opera Model's Inc (1994) as Carrie Spencer, an aging model with a lot of anxiety issues. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled after less than a season. She was back on the TV screen a year later as Lucinda Scott on F/X: The Series (1996) and back in Toronto where the show was produced. During this time, she had squeezed in several films and TV appearances. One notable TV appearance, a guest spot on Due South (1996) as ill-fated Irene Zuko in the episode "e;Juliet is Bleeding", won her a Gemini Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role.

The world was finally introduced to her in 1999 when her big break came in The Matrix playing the wildly popular cyberwarrior Trinity. After auditioning seven times, she landed the part and trained intensively for months for the action sequences demanded by the film.

Moss currently lives in Beverly Hills with her cat Rio.

• Attended high-school with Gil Bellows.
• Her husband, Steve Roy, is an actor.
• Was a character in a television show also named "Matrix"
• Has starred with each of the three main actors from Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The (1994) in separate films: Hugo Weaving in Matrix, The (1999), Guy Pearce in Memento (2000) and Terence Stamp in Red Planet (2000).
• Recommended Joe Pantoliano for Memento (2000)
• Was named after the Hollies' 1967 song "Carrie Anne", which was in the charts when she was born.
• Resides in Toronto and Vancouver when she isn't working.
• Carrie Ann is expecting her first child in the fall of 2003.