Deborah Moore

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{{Short description|English actress (born 1963)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Deborah Moore

| image = File:Deborah Moore Headshot.jpg

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| birth_name = Deborah Maria Luisa Moore

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|10|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Marylebone, London, England

| other_names = Deborah Barrymore

| occupation = {{Hlist | Actress | model | voice actress}}

| years_active = 1971–present

| spouse = {{marriage|Jeremy Green|1989|1994|end=div}}

| parents = Roger Moore (father)
Luisa Mattioli (mother)

}}

Deborah Maria Luisa Moore (born 27 October 1963) is an English actress. She is the daughter of actor Roger Moore and Italian actress Luisa Mattioli.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19891226&id=sNsxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U-UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6562,5417954&hl=en | title=For Roger Moore, 'Bullseye' is like family reunion | newspaper=Lawrence Journal-World | date=December 26, 1989 | accessdate=21 September 2016 | author=Wolf, Matt}}

Career

She made her debut on TV as a child in The Persuaders! episode "The Long Goodbye" in which her father co-starred alongside Tony Curtis, and early on in her career, she was often billed as "Deborah Barrymore". She appeared in such films as Lionheart (1987), Alien Terminator (1988), the 1990 comedy, Bullseye! (opposite her father), Chaplin (1992), Into the Sun (1992), and South Kensington (2001).{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/deborah-moore-p147018|title=Deborah Moore | Movies and Filmography|website=AllMovie}} She is best known in the UK as the face of the Scottish Widows advertising campaign from 1986 to 1995.{{cite news |title=Modern setting as the Scottish Widow returns |last=Quinn |first=James |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/insurance/10264488/Modern-setting-as-the-Scottish-Widow-returns.html |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=24 August 2013 |access-date=22 September 2013 |location=London}}

She has twice made appearances in James Bond–related productions. She played a secretary in the 1989 biopic Goldeneye: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming and later made a cameo appearance as a flight attendant in the 2002 Bond film, Die Another Day,{{cite news | editor-last=Eden |editor-first=Richard |first=Tim |last=Walker | title=Deborah Moore requests licence to kill James Bond | work=The Daily Telegraph | date=December 1, 2009 | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/6702465/Deborah-Moore-requests-licence-to-kill-James-Bond.html | access-date=September 21, 2016 |url-access=subscription}} which was Pierce Brosnan's fourth and final Bond film. She also appeared in the 1998 TV movie Merlin: The Quest Begins, opposite Jason Connery, son of former Bond Sean Connery.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b854beb9b|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231100323/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b854beb9b|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 December 2018|title=Merlin (1998)|website=BFI}} Her godfather was actor Robert Brown, her father's co-star in the television series Ivanhoe and three Bond films. In 2006, Moore made the film Provoked. Jagmohan Mundhra's film is based on the UK domestic violence case in which Kiranjit Singh Ahluwalia was jailed in London for killing her abusive husband. Based on her story, the film stars Aishwarya Rai as Ahluwalia. Moore plays Jackie, another prison inmate.

Moore appeared as Alfidia, the mother of a fictionalised Livia, in two 2007 episodes of the HBO/BBC series Rome.

Moore appeared in the series 1 finale of Sherlock, "The Great Game" in August 2010, where she played the first victim of Jim Moriarty.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8df62d98|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180527124608/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8df62d98|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 May 2018|title=The Great Game (2010)|website=BFI}}

In 2022, Moore provided narration on a series of Italian cookery videos for friend Laura Giunta Tobin.[https://yourguardianchef.com/about-me/ About Laura Giunta Tobin's Blog]

In 2024, Deborah narrated the audio book The Magic Snowman and the Rusty Ice Skates, featuring the voice of her father as the character of the magic snowman, Lumi Ukko. In honoring her father’s legacy to help children’s causes universally, she has supported the producer’s pledge to allocate 20 percent of the proceeds to UNICEF, her father’s favorite charity.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

Personal life

From 1989 to 1994, Moore was married Jeremy Green.

Filmography

= Television series =

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style="text-align:center;"

! scope="col"|Year

! scope="col"|Title

! scope="col"|Role

! scope="col"|Notes

1971

| The Persuaders!

| Deborah

| Episode: The Long Goodbye

1977

| Aspen

| Debra

| TV Mini series

1990

| Zorro

| Amanda Herrera

| Episode: The Tease

rowspan="3"|1992

| Days of Our Lives

| Danielle Stevens

| 42 episodes

Mann & Machine

| Victoria Van Der Zalm

| Episode: Cold, Cold Heart

Shelley

| Julie

| Episode: Come Fly with Me

1993

| Quantum Leap

| Claudia

| Episode: Blood Moon

1994

| The Wanderer

| Clare

| Episode: Waste Not, Want Not

2000

| Doctors Season 2

| Clare Moody

| Episode: A Model Patient

2007

| Rome

| Alfidia

| Episode: A Necessary Fiction

2009

| Midsomer Murders

| Mel

| Episode: The Great and the Good

2010

| Sherlock

| Crying Woman

| Episode: The Great Game

2013

| Casualty

| Vicky Heaton

| Episode: Rabbits in Headlights

2014

| Doctors Season 16

| Celestia Heyworth

| Episode: Heaven Can Wait

2021

| The Nevers

| Fancy Lady / High Society Woman

| Episode: Exposure & Episode: Alright, Okay, You, Win

= Film =

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!Year

!Title

!Role

!class="unsortable" | Notes

1984

| Warriors of the Apocalypse

| Princess Sheela

| (credited as Debrah Moore)

1987

| Lionheart

| Mathilda

| (credited as Deborah Barrymore)

1988

| Alien Terminator

| June

| (credited as Deborah Barrymore)

1989

| Goldeneye: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming

| Secretary

| (credited as Deborah Barrymore)

1990

| Bullseye!

| Flo Fleming

| (credited as Deborah Barrymore)

rowspan="2"|1991

| Into the Sun

| Maj. Goode

| (credited as Deborah Maria Moore)

Trauma

| Susannah Hopkins

| (credited as Deborah Barrymore)

1992

| Chaplin

| Lita Grey

| (credited as Deborah Maria Moore)

rowspan="2"|1996

| On Dangerous Ground

| Hannah Bernstein

|

London Suite

| Meg Dolby

|

1997

| Midnight Man

| Hannah Bernstein

|

1998

| Merlin

| Nimue

|

2001

| South Kensington

| Direttrice Bulgari

|

2002

| Die Another Day

| Air Hostess

|

2006

| Provoked

| Jackie

|

2009

| Tales of the Fourth Dimension

| Professor

|

rowspan="2"|2015

| Crown for Christmas

| Mrs. Hinden

|

Assassin

| Laura Boyd

|

2016

| We Still Steal the Old Way

| Anne-Marie

|

= Video games =

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|+ List of voice performances in video games

! Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

2009

| Dragon Age: Origins

| Teyrna Eleanor Cousland / Jetta / Widow / Hooded Courier

| Xbox 360

rowspan="2"|2011

| Dragon Age II

| Leandra Hawke / Madam Lusine / Sister Colinda / Annoyed Viscount's Keep Noblewoman / Gallows Courtyard Templar Lieutenant

| Xbox 360

Dragon Age II: Mark of the Assassin

| Chateau Haine Cook

| Xbox 360

2013

| Killzone: Mercenary

| Valeria Harkin

| PlayStation Vita{{cite web|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Killzone-Mercenary/Valeria-Harkin/|title=Voice of Valeria Harkin - Killzone: Mercenary | Behind The Voice Actors|website=Behind The Voice Actors|access-date=November 2, 2024|type= Check marks indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources}}

2015

| Star Wars: Battlefront

| Pilot / Computer voice / Fighter

| Xbox One

2017

| Mass Effect: Andromeda

| The Benefactor / Knight / Nexus Crew

| PlayStation 4

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