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Mandy Moore

Highest Rated: 89% Tangled (2010)

Lowest Rated: 0% Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011)

Birthday: Apr 10, 1984

Birthplace: Nashua, New Hampshire, USA

Since arriving on the entertainment scene as a teen pop singer in 1999, Mandy Moore consistently and successfully broke away from pre-conceived notions of her talent, from critically praised collections of mature music to well-regarded acting turns in films and television series like "A Walk to Remember" (2002), "Because I Said So" (2006), and "This is Us" (NBC, 2016- ). Born Amanda Leigh Moore on April 10, 1984 in Nashua, New Hampshire, she and her two brothers were raised near Orlando, Florida by her airline pilot father and news reporter mother. But it was her maternal grandmother, a professional ballerina in England, to pursue a career as a performer. She soon cut her teeth on local productions before deciding to try her hand at pop music; while recording at a studio in Orlando, a Federal Express worker overhead her voice and asked to take a recording of it to a friend at Epic Records. The demo led to Moore signing with the label and her debut single, "Candy," in 1999. Though a modest hit, peaking at No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100, it immediately minted Moore as a member of the teen pop movement that included Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys. But if her stint as a teen idol was not as successful as that of her peers - her debut album, So Real (1999), peaked at No. 31 on the Billboard albums chart - Moore also proved more adaptive and resilient than the other pop vocal acts. After releasing I Wanna Be With You (2000), which was essentially a remix of So Real, she moved away from teen pop sounds with her self-titled third LP. Released in 2001, it too rose no higher on the charts than No. 35, but showed that Moore's interests lay in more mature material. At the same time, she began making inroads into an acting career, first through a voice-acting role in "Dr. Dolittle 2" (2001), and then as Anne Hathaway's rival in "The Princess Diaries" (2001). By the following year, Moore earned her first starring role in "A Walk to Remember," an adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel about a romance between a spoiled upper-class boy (Shane West) and a small town minister's daughter (Moore). A massive hit with teen audiences, it announced Moore's transition to movie stardom, though she continued to record music during this period, most notably Coverage (2003), which featured her takes on popular songs from the 1970s and 1980. It failed to generate any charting singles, and after ending her contract with Epic with The Best of Mandy Moore in 2004, she focused her efforts almost entirely on acting. She initially kept within teen movie boundaries, playing a strong-willed high schooler in "How to Deal" (2003) and earning critical praise as the daughter of a U.S. President in "Chasing Liberty" (2004). But with "Saved!" (2005), an acidic spoof of religious conservatism, Moore again displayed a willingness to stretch beyond audience expectations; her turn as a pious Christian schoolgirl won critical attention, as did her performance as a manic reality show contestant in Paul Weitz's "American Dreamz" (2006). She then returned to music for a pair of releases - Wild Hope in 2007 and Amanda Leigh in 2008 - both of which settled in the Top 40 for albums and earned respectable reviews but no hit singles. She then returned to steady work in a string of unremarkable features, including the popular "Because I Said So," with Diane Keaton, and "License to Wed" (2007) with Robin Williams. Moore, who had been dating alt-country favorite Ryan Adams during this period, took a two-year break after their 2009 wedding, and then returned to features, though again, the resulting projects, like "Swinging with the Finkels" (2011) and "Hotel Noir" (2012), were underfed. More successful was the Disney animated feature "Tangled" (2011), with Moore voicing a very modern Rapunzel. The film was a major hit for the studio, earning its animation wing its third-highest grosses worldwide, and Moore followed that success with another Disney animated project, "Sheriff Callie's Wild West" (Disney Channel, 2013-17). She announced the start of work on her seventh studio album, this time with husband Adams providing assistance, in 2013, but the project lay dormant for a number of years, and eventually eclipsed their marriage, which ended under less than amicable circumstances in 2015. But Moore's fortunes were soon on an upswing: she reprised Rapunzel for the well-received "Tangled: The Series" (Disney Channel, 2017- ), then scored a modest hit with the underwater thriller "47 Meters Down" (2017). But her most popular effort during this period was "This is Us," an emotionally fueled look at a mixed family over the course of several decades. Moore earned a 2017 Golden Globe nomination as Rebecca Pearson, the matriarch of the family, and added an Emmy nomination two years later; the upbeat year was capped with her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in March and in September, the release of "When I Wasn't Watching," her first original song in a decade, which she co-wrote with new husband Taylor Goldsmith of the band Dawes.

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Highest rated movies

89% 87% Tangled Watchlist
88% 64% Ralph Breaks the Internet
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61% 78% Saved!
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53% 35% 47 Meters Down Watchlist
53% 56% Romance & Cigarettes
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50% 55% Brother Bear 2
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49% 68% The Princess Diaries Watchlist 42% 92% Midway Watchlist 41% 41% Southland Tales Watchlist
40% 64% Dedication
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 78% LEGO Disney Princess: The Castle Quest Rapunzel (Voice) - 2023
42% 92% Midway Ann Best (Character) $56.8M 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Big Break Natasha (Character) - 2019
88% 64% Ralph Breaks the Internet Rapunzel (Voice) $201.1M 2018
15% 70% The Darkest Minds Cate (Character) $12.7M 2018
38% 71% I'm Not Here Mom (Character) - 2017
53% 35% 47 Meters Down Lisa (Character) $44.3M 2017
No Score Yet 70% Tangled Before Ever After Rapunzel (Voice) - 2017
No Score Yet 50% Christmas in Conway Natalie (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 79% Tangled Ever After Rapunzel (Voice) - 2012
13% 31% Hotel Noir Evangeline (Character) - 2012
0% 28% Love, Wedding, Marriage Eva (Character) $1.4K 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Death and Return of Superman Lois Lane (Character) - 2011
0% 20% Swinging With the Finkels Sarah FinkelMartin Freeman:Martin Finkel (Character) - 2010
89% 87% Tangled Rapunzel (Voice) $200.8M 2010
40% 64% Dedication Lucy Reilly (Character) $91.2K 2007
7% 53% License to Wed Sadie Jones (Character) $43.8M 2007
3% 65% Because I Said So Milly (Character) $42.6M 2007
41% 41% Southland Tales Madeline Frost Santaros (Character) $273.4K 2006
50% 55% Brother Bear 2 Nita (Voice) - 2006
39% 31% American Dreamz Sally Kendoo (Character) $7.2M 2006
53% 56% Romance & Cigarettes Baby (Character) $540.1K 2005
35% 42% Racing Stripes Sandy (Voice) $49.2M 2005
61% 78% Saved! Hilary Faye (Character) $459.4K 2004
19% 60% Chasing Liberty Anna Foster (Character) $12.2M 2004
27% 64% How to Deal Halley Martin (Character) $14.1M 2003
0% 36% Try Seventeen Lisa (Character) - 2002
30% 78% A Walk to Remember Jamie (Character) $41.2M 2002
49% 68% The Princess Diaries Lana Thomas (Character) $108.2M 2001

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Celebrity IOU Guest 2024
No Score Yet 53% After Midnight Guest 2024
No Score Yet 11% The View Guest 2017 2024
86% 86% Dr. Death Benita Alexander (Character) 2023
No Score Yet 44% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Music Performer,
Guest
2016-2018 2020 2022-2023
No Score Yet 42% Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guest 2010 2017-2020 2022
94% 81% This Is Us Rebecca Pearson (Character),
Director
2016-2022
No Score Yet 54% The Kelly Clarkson Show Music Performer,
Guest
2020 2022
81% 81% Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist Mandy Moore (Guest Star),
Director
2020-2021
No Score Yet 55% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2016 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ellen DeGeneres Show Guest 2016-2018 2020
No Score Yet 81% Tangled: The Series Rapunzel (Voice) 2017-2020
No Score Yet 18% The Late Late Show With James Corden Guest 2018-2019
No Score Yet 51% Busy Tonight Guest 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Home & Family Guest 2019
No Score Yet 64% Family Guy Courtney (Guest Voice) 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Who Do You Think You Are? Unknown (Guest Star) 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Talk Guest 2016-2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Guest 2018
No Score Yet 48% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tangled the Series: Inside the Journal Unknown (Character) 2018
No Score Yet 81% Drunk History Clara Barton (Guest Star) 2018
No Score Yet 81% Last Week Tonight With John Oliver Rebecca Pearson (Guest Star) 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Who Killed Angie Dodge? Keith Morrison Investigates Producer 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Conan Guest 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sheriff Callie's Wild West Sheriff Callie (Voice) 2014-2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dancing With the Stars Choreography 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen Guest 2016
59% 86% Red Band Society Unknown (Guest Star) 2014-2015
44% 80% High School USA! Cassandra (Voice) 2013-2014
No Score Yet 96% Sofia the First Rapunzel (Guest Voice) 2014
No Score Yet 93% Tron: Uprising Mara (Voice) 2012-2013
84% 72% Grey's Anatomy Unknown (Guest Star) 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Music Performer 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bonnie Hunt Show Guest 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rachael Ray Guest 2007-2008
84% 85% How I Met Your Mother Amy (Guest Star) 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Unknown (Guest Star) 2007
85% 76% The Simpsons Tabitha Vixx (Guest Voice) 2006
83% 86% Scrubs Julie (Guest Star) 2006
65% 82% Entourage Mandy Moore (Guest Star) 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet MADtv Unknown (Guest Star),
Guest
2000 2003