Chloë Grace Moretz

""I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can. If acting doesn't work out I'd love to produce, direct, or write. I just want to stay in this business. That would be my number one thing. I always want to be an actress.""

Chloë Grace Moretz (born 1997) is an American child actress from Atlanta, Georgia. Moretz moved from Georgia to New York in 2001, with her mother and her older brother, Trevor, because he was accepted into a professional performing arts school; this initially got her interested in acting. Her Hollywood career began when she and the rest of her family moved to Los Angeles in 2003. Her first role in Hollywood was as Violet in two episodes of the series The Guardian, and her first film role was as Molly in Heart of the Beholder.

It was not until her second big-screen acting role, in the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror that she earned greater recognition in the form of a Young Artist Award nomination. After Amityville, Moretz's acting career progressed further when she received several guest-starring roles on TV, as well as a role as one of the family children in Big Mommas House 2. Among the most notable of her TV roles to date are Candy Stoker in an episode of My Name Is Earl, and Sherri Maltby in Desperate Housewives. Moretz also voiced the U.S. version of the animated character Darby in My Friends Tigger & Pooh. After her first film premiere in The Amityville Horror, she has been a frequent guest at film premieres. She has an interest in fashion, and often wears clothes in her own distinctive style.

In 2010, Moretz appeared as Hit-Girl in director Matthew Vaughn's superhero film Kick-Ass, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr., for which she has received widespread critical acclaim. Moretz trained with Jackie Chan and his stunt crew for three months prior to filming Kick-Ass and did most of her own stunts while filming on location. Also that year, she played Abby, a 12-year-old vampire, in Let Me In, the American R Emake of the Swedish film Let the Right One In, which was released on October 1, 2010. On March 30, 2010 Moretz was cast as little Ann in the psychological thriller The Fields.

Moretz's projects for 2011 include playing the role of Isabelle in Hugo, and Hick, an adaptation of the novel by Andrea Portes. She has also been cast as Carolyn Stoddard in Tim Burton's film adaption of 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, due for release in 2012. In addition, Moretz has signed on to play the leading role in Emily The Strange. The project was first mentioned over two years ago, when Dark Horse Entertainment president Mike Richardson announced his plans to bring the character to the big screen. First started as an iconic image in 1991 and used to promote a clothing line from Cosmic Debris, the Gothic teen has developed a back story through a series of Dark Horse Comics, which have been published since 2001. Said film is early in development, however, so it won't be expected for a few years yet. Later on, she will star in a remake of horror classic Carrie.

Roles

 * The Guardian as Violet
 * Heart Of The Beholder as Molly
 * The Amityville Horror (2005 remake) as Chelsea
 * My Name Is Earl as Candy Stoker
 * Big Mommas House 2 as Carrie
 * Desperate Housewives as Sherry Maltby
 * The Poker House as Cammie
 * Dirty Sexy Money as Kiki George
 * My Friends Tigger and Pooh as Darby
 * Bolt as Young Penny
 * 500 Days of Summer as Rachel
 * Diary of a Wimpy Kid as Angie
 * Kick-Ass as Mindy "Hit-Girl" Macready
 * Let Me In as Abby
 * Thirty Rock as Kaylie Hooper
 * Hugo as Isabelle
 * The Fields as Little Ann Sliger
 * Hick as Luli McMullen
 * Emily The Strange as Emily
 * Dark Shadows as Carolyn Stoddard Collins
 * Carrie (remake) as Carrie

Tropes

 * Action Girl: Some of her roles.
 * Creepy Child / Stringy Haired Ghost Girl: As Enid in the Funny or Die sketch video "Scary Girl".
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Fake Nationality: In Hugo she plays a French character using an English accent.
 * Follow the Leader: Cut from the same cloth as, and by her own admission inspired by, fellow Georgians Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning.
 * Hair of Gold
 * Little Miss Badass: Only fourteen, and already kicking ass at a twelfth grade level.
 * Mean Character Nice Actor / I Am Not Spock: Doesn't like being identified with her intense roles in Kick-Ass and Let Me In, claiming to be a "normal, everyday girl".
 * Pimped Out Dress: Her Black Swan costume.
 * She Is All Grown Up: Well, she is nowadays.
 * Star Making Role: Hit Girl.
 * Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Her characters in Kick-Ass and Let Me In.
 * Typecasting: As a precocious Strange Girl who is almost always Wise Beyond Her Years (Five Hundred Days of Summer, Hugo), sometimes engages in Troubling Unchildhood Behavior (Kick Ass),and is often somehow connected to the supernatural (Let Me In, Dark Shadows, the forthcoming Carrie and Emily The Strange adaptations).
 * Wise Beyond Her Years: Both she and many of her characters.