Chloë Grace Moretz

Chloë Grace Moretz has built a career around range, moving between bruising genre films, intimate drama, comedy and animation without settling into one screen identity. Born in Atlanta in 1997 and raised in Cartersville, Georgia, she became interested in acting after moving to New York City with her mother and older brother Trevor, whom she helped read lines. Her early work included television appearances in The Guardian, Dirty Sexy Money and Desperate Housewives, along with a film role in The Amityville Horror. The part that firmly announced her presence, though, was Hit-Girl in Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass. Moretz trained with Jackie Chan’s stunt crew for three months and performed most of her own stunts, bringing unusual physical commitment to a role that also generated controversy because of her age. She returned as Hit-Girl in Kick-Ass 2. Moretz quickly showed that this was not a one-note breakthrough. She played the vampire Abby in Let Me In, Isabelle in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo and the title role in Kimberly Peirce’s Carrie. Other leading parts followed in If I Stay and The 5th Wave, while her Off-Broadway debut came in Steven Soderbergh’s production of The Library. After years of working at a rapid pace, Moretz publicly explained that she wanted to become more selective about her roles rather than leave acting behind. That reassessment can be seen in projects including The Miseducation of Cameron Post, in which she played a teenager sent to a conversion camp, as well as Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria and the thriller Greta opposite Isabelle Huppert. Her voice work has become another substantial part of her screen career. She voiced Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family and its sequel, then took the title role in Nimona. Alongside animated work, she led the series The Peripheral, based on William Gibson’s novel. Across those choices, Moretz’s filmography remains defined less by a single persona than by a continuing interest in characters facing strange, dangerous or transformative circumstances.