Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity)

Carrie Anne Moss as Trinity

Exhibiting both grit and steely, almost otherworldly beauty, Canadian actress Carrie-Anne Moss rapidly ascended from obscurity to international stardom as the latex-clad cyber warrior Trinity in the Wachowski brothers' The Matrix. Moss' striking performance led many viewers to question where she had been all these years; like many other fledgling Hollywood actresses, she had done time as a model and an actress in second-rate films while waiting for her big break.

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on August 21, 1967, Moss decided that she wanted to be an actress at an early age. The youngest of two children raised by a single mother, she grew up taking acting classes, and at the age of 20, she left Canada to pursue a career as a model. During a modeling stint in Spain, Moss managed to land a role on the TV serial Dark Justice. Upon her return to North America, she moved to L.A. and was cast on the Aaron Spelling series Models Inc.

After making her film debut in 1996's Sabotage, Moss continued to do TV work (most notably on the Toronto-based F/X: The Series) and appeared in fairly obscure films. Thanks to her starring role in The Matrix in 1999, Moss was soon in great demand. In 2000 alone, she could be seen in no less than four films, including the action comedy The Crew, Red Planet, and as a bartender with questionable motives in director Christopher Nolan's unconventional breakthrough, Memento. ~ Rebecca Flint, All Movie Guide

Filmography

The Matrix: Revolutions (2003) ... Trinity

The Matrix: Reloaded (2003) ... Trinity

The Matrix Revisited (2001) ... Herself/Trinity

Chocolat (2000) ... Caroline Clairmont

Red Planet (2000) ... Commander Kate Bowman

Memento (2000) ... Natalie

The Crew (2000) ... Detective Olivia Neal

New Blood (1999) ... Leigh

The Matrix (1999) ... Trinity

The Secret Life of Algernon (1997) ... Madge Clerisy

Lethal Tender (1997) ... Melissa Wilkins