Lee Anne Moore

Lee Anne Moore has always had a predilection to play older, unusual characters. As a graduate theatre student with a teaching assistantship at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, her mainstage roles included Esmerelda in "The Skin of Our Teeth" and Miss Trixie in "A Confederacy of Dunces," directed by John Dennis and Frank Galati, respectively. Her most memorable role in the studio theatre was Luba in Michael Cristofer's "The Lady and the Clarinet." The decade after LSU was adventurous, with four national theatre tours (she was Cruella de Vil for nine months), a serendipitous stint in her native Arkansas as the outlaw Belle Starr, the cherished opportunity to work with the late Brett Lassiter onstage in New Mexico and on ship in St. Louis (St. Charles, more accurately), residencies with Arts in Education programs in Arkansas, Texas, and Mississippi, and a chance to exercise her passion for classical theatre in Texas and Colorado. After completing her ultimate (so far) theatre tour, she hopped into a vehicle that spent most of its time in the shop and drove from Colorado to California, determined to explore the unfamiliar territory of film and television. This decade began, though, with a rich and gritty continuation of her stage work as she played The Greek Chorus in Alternative Repertory's "Medea," to critical acclaim. More theatre roles in L.A. and O.C. followed: Adriana in "Comedy of Errors," Boo in "The Last Night of Ballyhoo," "Mother Courage" (titular) at Theatre/Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, and she returned to Arkansas one more time to play Martha Mitchell in "This is Martha Speaking" by Tom Doran (the play that should be the one they're making the movie of but only Arkansas saw it). One of her last (so far) stage roles was that of Character Woman in Doris Baizley's adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" at International City Theatre in Long Beach. The name stuck and followed her into film and television as an offscreen nickname. Her IMDb credits speak for themselves, one project per year for the last five. Many more roles in other projects and many smart and gifted colleagues have unlocked several of the mysteries that drove her as she drove to the west coast. In whatever role at whatever age in whatever dialect, Lee Anne's upbringing in Arkansas, with its many similarities to that of Billy Bob Thornton, President Clinton, and Maya Angelou, will travel with her.