Mandy Moore - biography, filmography and personal life of the actress (photo)

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Mandy Moore (full name - Amanda Lee Moore), American movie star, singer, was born April 10, 1984 in Orlando, Florida. Mandy's father is Don Moore, a civil aviation pilot, and her mother is Stacy Moore, a newspaper reporter. Mandy's paternal lineage was Cherokee Indians, and her maternal lineage was Jewish.

Oklahoma

Because the girl's parents were busy all day, she was raised by her grandmother, a former dancer from London's West End theater. When Mandy grew up, she discovered her singing talent. Grandmother in every possible way encouraged the timid attempts of her beloved granddaughter to sing some song, and once they went to the theater to the musical Oklahoma! Ten-year-old Mandy Moore, whose biography began with the theater, sat spellbound throughout the performance, and sang a few songs at home as a keepsake. After that, the girl decided to become a singer.

National Anthem

The family supported Mandy, she studied at a music school without enrollment, and also rehearsed vocals for a year and a half with incomingteachers. The practical lessons of the little singer gave an unexpected result - Mandy suddenly sang the national anthem of America. Young Moore carefully played each note, and her already strengthened voice sounded more and more confident. Soon Mandy was invited to sing the anthem at the opening of sports competitions in the city of Jacksonville. She went there with her grandmother, who became something of a musical agent for her. The anthem, performed by Moore, was recorded on a disc at Epic Records, and thus the fourteen-year-old girl could already be considered a professional singer.

First album

The said studio signed a contract with Mandy Moore for the release of all her future albums, and the singer began to create her first disc, which was called "So Real" and was released at the end of 1999. Moore began the hectic life of a pop singer, studio recordings and concerts, rehearsals and tours. But the girl was only 15 years old. Nevertheless, she coped with the tasks, and the work gave her pleasure. Especially the young singer liked to meet with composers to listen to new songs. She was not afraid of complex compositions that require multi-stage arrangements. The girl considered the proposals primarily in terms of the popularity of the future song. She already felt which single would appeal to young people and which would not.

First successes

Slowly, a team of professionals gathered around Mandy, who helped her with arrangements, recording songs and their subsequent linking. And while the singer's friendsengaged in the arrangement of already recorded singles in the album, Moore went on tour with a famous group from the city of Orlando, "Backstreet Boys". Meanwhile, the singer's first album "So Real" took 31st place on the Billboard 200 hit parade, which was not bad at all to begin with. Fifteen-year-old Mandy was compared by critics with Jessica Simpson and Christina Aguilera, although the girl was still put behind these eminent performers. But there was a hint of equality in vocal data.

Criticism

There was some hard-hitting criticism of Moore. The magazine "Entertainment Weekly" called her songs too professionally performed and even boring, devoid of spark. And the ballads present in the album were dubbed "nauseous" at all. Nevertheless, "So Real" sold well, reached the platinum milestone, and individual singles were included in most of the music programs that air on the air. Comparisons with Britney Spears, Aguilera and Jessica Simpson were not in favor of Moore, but she was already on her way to success.

The single "Candy" was called "a song of sugary pleasure instead of love" and went gold. He was called "surprisingly defiant", and he entered the hot Billboard top. In 2000, the critics hit Mandy Moore again when her second album "I Wanna Be With You" was released. The new songs were mixed with the old ones from "So Real", slightly reworked and in a different format. The singer was reproached for the lack of furtherdevelopment and stagnation of creativity. And the site "All Music Guide" went even further and commented on the singer's new album as "vulgar, trashy, tasteless". And the collection, not at all embarrassed, took 21st place on the Billboard 200, 24th place on the Hot 100 and sold 790,000 discs. The dominant track "I Wanna Be With You" was featured on the soundtrack of the film "Proscenium".

Film debut

In the summer of 2001, Mandy Moore's third album "Saturate Me" was released with a variety of songs, including those on the theme of the East. Entertainment Weekly magazine compared the singer to Natalia Imbrugli, drawing an analogy for signs of deliberate hoarseness in her voice, and All Music Guide called the new album a "multi-layered product". Rolling Stone magazine outplayed everyone, calling Mandy "an aspiring rocker and R&B upstart". The album meanwhile stood at number 31 on the Billboard 200 and was sold in the amount of half a million copies, becoming gold. In February 2002, the single "Cry" was released, which was included as a soundtrack in the film "A Walk to Love". This film was the singer's film debut.

First leading roles

At first, the girl did not dare to participate in film projects. The reason for this was the high growth of Mandy Moore, which is 178 cm, but still in 1996 the singer starred in three films: "Street Rats", "Doctor Dolittle" and "Princess Diaries". All three roles were episodic andinsignificant in content. In 2002, Mandy was already in the lead role, playing Jamie Sullivan, the modest daughter of a priest. In 2003, the actress played another main character in the film How to Be, directed by Claire Kilner. The heroine of Mandy, young Halle Martin, is disappointed in love. Everything that happens around her does not add peace of mind. The father has got a new mistress, whom Halle simply hates. The sister decided to get married. Best friend got pregnant by some strange friend. And everyone is talking about love. The schoolgirl comes to the conclusion that this feeling does not exist. However, after an unexpected meeting with a certain young man, Halle Martin changes her mind.

Drama & Comedy

The next film - "First Daughter" - directed by Andy Cadiff Mandy Moore, actress and singer, also played a major role. Her character was eighteen-year-old Anna Foster, the daughter of the American president. The plot of the film is reminiscent of "Roman Holiday" with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. Anna also runs away from security and does so with the help of Ben Calder, her new acquaintance. Adventures bring young people together, and Foster falls in love with his friend. What she doesn't know is that Ben is also an intelligence agent assigned to keep her safe.

The American Dream is a 2006 romantic comedy film directed by Paul Weitz. Mandy Moore played her next main role in the film - Sally Kendu, the singer. The main male role was played by Hugh Grant. Histhe character is the morally unscrupulous host of a popular television reality show, Martin Tweed. He goes to any tricks, just to raise the prestige of his program. This time, the host is hosting a singing contest, in which random people will participate. Among them there is even a terrorist, a certain Omer. Somehow, Martin Tweed even invited the President of the United States as a special jury member.

Comedy melodrama directed by Michael Lehmann called "Because I want to" was another project for Mandy Moore to use her acting skills. She again performed in her usual status as a leading lady, playing the charming Millie, the youngest of three daughters of Daphne Wilder, a loving mother. Millie has a problem - she can't communicate with the opposite sex. Daphne decides to help her and for this she places an ad in the dating newspaper on behalf of her youngest daughter. After Millie finds out about this, the family has other problems.

Filmography

Mandy Moore, whose filmography is not very extensive, starred in only fifteen notable films from 2001 to 2011:

• Year 2001 - "The Princess Diaries", directed by Garry Marshall. Moore as Lana Thomas.
• Year 2002 - A Walk to Love directed by Adam Shankman (Jamie Sullivan). "Seventeen", directed by Jeffrey Porter (Lisa).
• Year 2003 - "How to be" directed by Claire Kilner (Helly Martin).
• Year 2004 - "First Daughter", directed by AndyCadiff (Anna Foster).
• Year 2005 - "Crazy Horse Racing", directed by Frederic Du Chau (Sandy). "Love and Cigarettes", directed by John Turturro (Baby).
• Year 2006 - "American Dream", directed by Paul Weitz (Sally Kendu). "Tales of the South" directed by Richard Kelly (Madeleine).
• Year 2007 - "Initiation", directed by Justin Theroux (Lucy Reilly). "Because I Want To" directed by David Kitay (Millie Wilder). "License to Marry" directed by Ken Kwapis (Sadie Jones). "How I Met Your Mother" directed by Pamela Fryman (Amy).
• Year 2010 - Grey's Anatomy, directed by Rob Korn (Mary Portman).
• Year 2011 - Exchange, directed by Jonathan Newman (Eli Finkel).

Private life

Mandy Moore's personal life is not of interest to newspapermen, nothing obviously scandalous is visible in it. The actress had only three alliances with men, and even those were unintelligible. Mandy's first chosen one was a tall American tennis player Andy Roddick, they did not meet for long, they broke up even before Moore learned to play tennis. The second boyfriend of the actress, Zach Braff, is a popular Hollywood actor, known for his role as John Dorian from the series "Clinic". And finally, Wilmer Valderrama, relations with whom were not motivated in any way. There was a period when Mandy Moore and Shane West, the partner of the actress in the film "A Walk to Love", also almost became spouses with the light hand of journalists. A rebuttal soon followed.rumors.

In March 2009, Mandy Moore, who was tired of meaningless meetings in hotel rooms, officially married singer and composer Ryan Adams, who also writes poetry and short stories. The newlyweds played their wedding in the wonderful city of Savannah, Georgia. Mandy Moore and her husband live in complete harmony and understanding. They have a lot of common interests. His wife is a singer and actress, her husband is a singer, composer and writer. Soon the couple are going to have offspring. This will happen as soon as Mandy Moore's weight can be reduced a little. The actress believes that a good estimated weight is necessary for a normal pregnancy, in accordance with the recommendations of doctors.