Canadian actress

Carrie-Anne Moss

Carrie-Anne Moss is a Canadian actress. After early roles on television, she rose to international prominence for her role of Trinity in The Matrix series (1999–present). She has starred in Memento (2000), for which she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, Red Planet (2000), Chocolat (2000), Fido (2006), Snow Cake (2006), for which she won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Disturbia (2007), Unthinkable (2010), Silent Hill: Revelation (2012), Pompeii (2014), and Die Alone (2024), for which she was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Performance in a Drama Film. She also portrayed Jeri Hogarth in several television series produced by Marvel Television for Netflix, most notably Jessica Jones (2015–2019).

Born

1967

August 21

Died

Living

Era

1960s

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959 Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège.
1140 Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars.
1169 Battle of the Blacks: Uprising by the black African forces of the Fatimid army, along with a number of Egyptian emirs and commoners, against Saladin.
1192 Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes Sei-i Taishōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: the 12th day of the seventh month in the third year of the Kenkyū (建久) era).

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The world in 1967

When Carrie-Anne arrived

april 14 Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new President of Togo, a title he will hold for the next 38 years.
april 21 A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
april 21 A tornado outbreak in Illinois, United States, kills over 50 and injures over 1,000. Belvidere sustains over 500 casualties as a violent tornado strikes the high school. Another tornado near Chicago causes another 500 casualties, devastating Oak Lawn.
april 23 Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1), a crewed spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov, is launched into orbit.

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Alicia Witt 1975– American actress and musician Archie Griffin 1954– American football player Cameron Winklevoss 1981– American rower and businessman, co-founded ConnectU Donald Dewar 1937–2000 Scottish politician, first First Minister of Scotland (died 2000) Emiliano Mercado del Toro 1891–2007 Puerto Rican-American soldier (died 2007) James FitzJames 1670–1734 1st Duke of Berwick, French general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (died 1734) Jules Michelet 1798–1874 French historian and philosopher (died 1874) Melvin Van Peebles 1932– American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2021) Otto Goldschmidt 1829– German composer, conductor and pianist (died 1907)

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Sung Jae-gi 1967–2013 South Korean philosopher and activist (born 1967) A. R. Rahman 1967– Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician, and philanthropist Adam Hughes 1967– American author and illustrator Anderson Cooper 1967– American journalist and author Carl Ouellet 1967– Canadian wrestler and sportscaster Cynthia Breazeal 1967– American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic Deion Sanders 1967– American football and baseball player and coach Jane Sixsmith 1967– English field hockey player Joely Fisher 1967– American actress and director

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