Carrie-Anne
Moss was born the youngest of two children. She had early
aspirations of becoming an actress. At the tender age
of 11, she went to act in school plays. At 17 she was
taking acting classes. During her senior year at Magee
Secondary, she went to Europe with her school choir. One
of her friends, urged her to stay in Spain and model but
she was still bent on pursuing her dream of Hollywood
acting.
In Spain,
she received an opportunity as a legal secretary, Tara
McDonald, in the TV show Dark Justice (1991) which was
produced in Spain during the first season. The shows
production moved to L.A after only one season. Carrie-Anne
headed to California in search of better acting roles,
there.
In L.A.,
appeared in several films and had guest appearances
on TV shows. She auditioned and got a starring role
on Aaron Spelling's primetime soap opera Models Inc
(1994) as Carrie Spencer, an aging model with a lot
of anxiety issues. 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.
