Emmy-nominated actress Amanda Leigh Moore, popularly called Mandy Moore, is known for her role in NBC’s family show This is Us that streamed from 2016 to 2022. She rose to fame as an actress due to her lead role in the romantic drama, A Walk to Remember.

Moore stepped her foot in the Hollywood entertainment industry with her debut single, Candy from the album So Real, released in 1999. Since then, she has starred in a lot of movies and shows, and six studio albums, the most recent being In Real Life, released in 2022.

Mandy Moore
Mandy Moore

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Mandy Moore Has Done Some Amazing Work

Mandy Moore debuted as an actress in 2001 in the feature film Dr. DoLittle 2, starring Eddie Murphy. Later that year she starred as Anne Hathaway’s character Mia Thermopolis in the blockbuster movie, The Princess Diaries. She described her character as “the crude popular girl who gets ice cream in her face.”

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The How to Deal star did her first lead role with Shane West and Pete Coyote in the movie A Walk to Remember. Not only was the movie a box-office hit but also the one that established Moore’s career as an actress. She won the award for Breakthrough Female Performance at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards.

Mandy Moore in A Walk to Remember
Mandy Moore in A Walk to Remember

Moore played the role of Sally Kendoo, a sociopath, in the movie American Dreamz. In an interview, when asked if she had enjoyed playing the “mean and selfish” role, she said:

“I think it’s the fun and the challenge of an actress to do a meaty part like this. I guess I play against type because Sally is pretty far from who I am, so I definitely enjoyed it.”

The Chasing Liberty actress co-starred with Zachary Levi in Disney’s 2010 CGI animated fantasy movie Tangled which is the 17-highest-grossing animated film. She reemerged as a singer in 2019 with the song When I Wasn’t Watching which was her first original song in years.

Mandy Moore Is Underpaid for Her Role This is Us

Mandy Moore starred as Rebecca Pearson in the Disney-produced NBC show This is Us for 6 seasons. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and won two Screen Actors Guild Awards but that doesn’t by any means mean that she was well-paid for her work.

Mandy Moore in This is Us
Mandy Moore in This is Us

The actress joined the hundreds of actors on the picket lines in Burbank as a part of the SAG-AFTRA strike. Much to everyone’s surprise, she revealed that some of the checks she had received as returns for the smash-hit show Thís is Us‘ streaming deal with Hulu ranged from a penny to 81 cents.

“The residual issue is a huge issue. We’re in incredibly fortunate positions as working actors having been on shows that found tremendous success in one way or another… but many actors in our position for years before us were able to live off of residuals or at least pay their bills.”

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Moore was joined on the picket lines by former Scandal actress, Katie Lowes who also starred in the last season of This is Us alongside Moore. Lowes said that she hasn’t benefitted all that much from Disney for Scandal which has been streaming for years on Netflix and has also joined Hulu recently.

Source: THR

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