CHLOË GRACE MORETZ
Date of Birth: February 10, 1997
With a nurse and a plastic surgeon as parents, it wasn't a given that Chloë Grace Moretz would somehow become a child actor by the age of seven. It was through her older brother Trevor, who was accepted into Professional Performing Arts High School in New York in 2001 when he was 15, that got the ball rolling for the little girl.
Along with her mother Teri, and Trevor, Chloë, then four, moved to New York from Atlanta, Georgia, where she was
born.
Trevor studied at the school for two years, then the entire family, including their father McCoy Lee Moretz
and Chloë's three other brothers, Brandon, Colin and Ethan, moved to Los Angeles. Trevor began coaching his
little sister and in 2004 she made her TV debut when she was asked to play a recurring character in two episodes
of CBS crime series The Guardian. Shortly after, she made her movie debut in the small budget film
Heart of the Beholder (2005), which won several awards at film festivals.
Later that year, she gained recognition when she appeared in the major motion picture The Amityville Horror (2005), playing the daughter of Ryan Reynolds and received her first Young Artist Award
nomination for her work in the film. She received two more in 2007, for a recurring role in the TV series Desperate Housewives and her role in Big Momma's House 2 (2006).
In 2008 Chloë had a minor setback when she voiced the entire character of Penny in the animated Disney feature
Bolt before it was decided Miley Cyrus, then Disney's biggest star, would play the part. It
didn't affect her career however, as the same year she again received two nominations, this time for her voice
over role in the DVD My Friends Tigger & Pooh and her recurring role in the TV series Dirty Sexy
Money. In 2010 she was nominated for her work in the motion picture 500 Days of Summer
(2009), then in 2011 she received three nominations: for Let Me In, Kick Ass
and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, finally winning the award for the latter. However, she won a Phoenix
Film Critics Society Award as Breakout Performance and two MTV Awards (Best Breakout Star and Biggest Badass
Star) for her work in Kick-Ass. For her outstanding performance as a vampire child in
Let Me In and well as for her work in Kick-Ass, she won a 2011 Empire Award in
the UK and a Breakthrough Artist Award from the the Austin Film Critics Association. She also won a Saturn Award
for Let Me In.
Having literally grown up in the public eye, Chloë continues to work steadily, with three movies released in
2011, including the highly anticipated Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese, and four movies scheduled to be released in 2012, one of which is Tim Burton's Dark Shadows, in which she stars alongside Johnny Depp.
In her spare time, Chloë enjoys ballet, basketball, swimming and playing with her dogs and cat. She is also a
StarPower Ambassador for the Starlight Children's Foundation.