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Pop singer turned actress whose album So Real went platinum and her second album, I Wanna Be with You, received gold certification. Her breakout single, “Candy,” hit #41 on the Billboard charts. In 2016, she began co-starring as Rebecca Pearson in the NBC hit drama This Is Us.

She was inspired to be an actress by her grandmother and the musical Oklahoma! She studied at the Stagedoor Manor theater camp when she was twelve.

She starred in A Walk to Remember and The Princess Diaries and voiced the lead character Rapunzel in the 2010 animated film Tangled. In November 2019, she announced she’d be going on her first tour in over a decade with shows starting in March 2020.

Her mother Stacy was a former news reporter and her father, Donald Don Moore, was a pilot for American Airlines. She married alternative country musician Ryan Adams in 2009 in Savannah, Georgia. The couple separated in 2014. In 2015, she began dating musician Taylor Goldsmith. The couple announced their engagement in September 2017 and wed on November 18, 2018. They’re expecting their first child together in early 2021.

She dated actor Zach Braff, who she broke up with in June 2006.

Moore was born on April 10, 1984, in Nashua, New Hampshire, to Stacy (née Friedman), a former news reporter who once worked for the Orlando Sentinel, and Donald Moore, a pilot for American Airlines. Moore was raised Catholic, but has since developed a “hodgepodge of things” that she believes. Moore is of Russian-Jewish (from her maternal grandfather), English, Scottish and Irish descent. She is the middle of three children with an older brother, Scott and a younger brother, Kyle. When Moore was two months old, she and her family moved to Longwood, Seminole County, Florida, outside of Orlando, because of her father’s job. There, she went on to meet her longtime boyfriend David Stater. She went to Bishop Moore Catholic High School in Orlando from 1998 to 1999.

Amanda Leigh Moore (born April 10, 1984) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to fame with her debut single “Candy”, which peaked at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100. Her debut studio album, So Real (1999), received a platinum certification from the RIAA. The title single from her second studio album, I Wanna Be With You (2000), became Moore’s first top 30 song in the U.S., peaking at number 24 on the Hot 100. Moore subsequently released the studio albums Mandy Moore (2001), Coverage (2003), Wild Hope (2007), Amanda Leigh (2009) and Silver Landings (2020).

When Moore’s musical career began in 1999, she was known for her bubblegum pop sound and image, which she revealed was not the type of music she prefers, saying, “[The record company] was like, ‘Here are your songs.’ I was like, ‘Hi, I’m fourteen. I’ll do anything.’ Those albums are why I’m here today, but god damn, I should give a refund to anyone who bought my first record”.

Moore’s debut studio album, So Real, was released on December 7, 1999, by 550 Music through Epic Records. The album received a limited release in only a few countries. It received generally mixed reviews from critics when it was released, and Moore continued to be compared to other teen pop singers. Allmusic said about the album, “Fifteen-year-old Mandy Moore’s debut album sounded like it was inspired almost entirely by listening to recent hit albums by ‘N Sync, the Backstreet Boys, and Britney Spears.” Entertainment Weekly had a similar opinion about the album, and gave it a C- in their review.

Moore’s debut single, “Candy”, was released on August 17, 1999, in the U.S. The single was a commercial success in a number of countries, but was compared immediately to the teen pop singers Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears. It debuted at number 88 on the Billboard Hot 100, before peaking at number 41 on the chart. The single later received a Gold certification from the RIAA, for sales exceeding 500,000 copies in the U.S. The single was the most successful in Australia, where it peaked at number 2 on the ARIA Charts and received a Platinum certification.

After signing with Epic Records, Moore began working on her debut album. While recording the album, Moore had to leave Bishop Moore Catholic High School when she was only in the ninth-grade, but continued receiving her education from tutors. In the summer of 1999, Moore began touring with the boy band NSYNC. Later that year, Moore also toured with the boy band Backstreet Boys.

Moore’s second studio album, I Wanna Be with You, was released on May 9, 2000. The album had the lead title single and songs from Moore’s debut album So Real. I Wanna Be with You was released as Moore’s debut album in a number of countries. The album received generally mixed reviews and criticism because it was a remix album and not a true follow-up. Allmusic called the album “trashier, flashier, gaudier, and altogether more disposable” than its predecessor So Real. The album was a commercial success, debuting and peaking at number 21 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. It later received a Gold certification from the RIAA, for sales exceeding 500,000 copies in the U.S. alone. Moore won the Kids’ Choice Awards for Favorite Rising Star for the album in 2000.

Before promotion for So Real had even ended, Moore had already begun working on her second album. The album’s title single, “I Wanna Be with You”, was released on July 11, 2000. The song became her first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 since her debut single, “Candy”. “I Wanna Be with You” spent 16 weeks on the chart and reached its peak of 24 during its ninth week on the chart. The song became her first Top 20 hit on the Billboard Pop Songs chart, where it peaked at number 11. The single also became Moore’s second Top 20 hit in Australia, where it peaked at number 13. It was also a minor success on the German Media Control Charts, where it peaked at number 70. The single received mixed to positive reviews. Billboard praised the song and said, “Top 40 programmers and listeners alike will love Moore more with this track”, but Allmusic called the song a highlight track from the album.

The album debuted at number 77 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album eventually continued to climb the chart until it peaked at number 31. It later received a Platinum certification from the RIAA, for sales exceeding one million copies in the U.S. alone. The album’s second single, “Walk Me Home”, was released on the same day as the album. The single did not have the same success of its predecessor, failing to appear on any major charts, but it peaked at number 38 on the Billboard Pop Songs chart in the U.S. The third and final title single, “So Real”, was released exclusively in certain territories on June 13, 2000. The single was not released in the U.S., but was released in territories such as Japan. In Australia, the single became her second Top 40 hit, peaking at number 21 on the ARIA Charts. The single also peaked at number 18 on the Official New Zealand Music Chart.

Moore’s self-titled album’s third and final single, “Cry,” was released on November 4, 2001, to help promote the film. Commenting on the film, she said: “It was my first movie and I know people say it may be cliche and it’s a tearjerker or it’s cheesy, but for me, it’s the thing I’m most proud of.”

Moore made her feature film debut in 2001, where she voiced a Girl Bear Cub in the comedy Dr. Dolittle 2, which starred Eddie Murphy. Later that year, Moore co-starred with Anne Hathaway in the comedy The Princess Diaries, based on Meg Cabot’s novel of the same name, and was released on August 3, 2001. She played Lana Thomas, the rival of Mia Thermopolis (Hathaway). On her role, Moore told InStyle Magazine, “I’m the crude popular girl who gets ice cream in her face.” The film opened in 2,537 theaters in North America and grossed $22,862,269 in its opening weekend. It grossed $165,335,153 worldwide—$108,248,956 in North America and $57,086,197 in other territories. The film received mixed to positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 47% of 113 sampled critics gave the film positive reviews and that it got a rating average of 5.2 out of 10. In the film, Moore performed a cover of Connie Francis’s 1958 song “Stupid Cupid” while at a beach party.

Moore’s self-titled third studio album, Mandy Moore, was released on June 19, 2001. The album had uptempo dance and pop songs and influences from Middle Eastern music. The album received mixed to average reviews from critics. Allmusic called the album a “lush, layered production”. The album debuted and peaked at number 35 on the Billboard 200 chart, and later received a Gold certification from the RIAA. The album has sold an estimated 1.5 million copies worldwide. The album also reached number 37 on the ARIA charts in Australia, her highest peak in the country to date. The album’s second single, “Crush”, was released on August 28, 2001; it peaked at number 35 on the Billboard Pop Songs chart, and it climbed to number 25 on the ARIA Charts.

The album’s lead single, “In My Pocket”, was released on May 29, 2001. Entertainment Weekly said the single had “pumping, Indian-influenced Eurodisco”. It failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S., but peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, and it reached number 21 on the Billboard Pop Songs chart. The song became her third Top 20 hit in Australia, where it peaked at number 11 on the ARIA Charts.

In 2001, Moore began working on her third studio album, which was said to move away from the “bubblegum pop” sound and image she became known for. Moore said during an interview with Billboard magazine that “All of the music has started to look and sound the same” and that she chose to move in a different musical direction. Moore also said that she wanted “no more dancers, no more singing to tracks. I got tired of that in a big way”.

Moore made her feature film debut in 2001, with a minor voice role in the comedy film Dr. Dolittle 2, before starring as Lana Thomas in the comedy film The Princess Diaries. She received recognition for her starring role as Jamie Sullivan in the romantic drama film A Walk to Remember (2002), and starred in the films Chasing Liberty (2004), Racing Stripes (2005), Because I Said So (2007), License to Wed (2007), Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011), 47 Meters Down (2017), The Darkest Minds (2018), and Midway (2019). Moore also voiced Princess Rapunzel in the Disney animated fantasy musical comedy film Tangled (2010), the short film Tangled Ever After (2012), the Disney Channel television film, Tangled: Before Ever After (2017), and the series Tangled: The Series (2017–2020).

In 2002, Moore made her starring debut with Shane West and Peter Coyote in the romantic drama A Walk to Remember, based on Nicholas Sparks’s novel of the same name. She played Jamie Sullivan, the unpopular daughter of Reverend Sullivan (Coyote). The film opened at #3 at the U.S. box office raking in $12,177,488 in its opening weekend, behind Snow Dogs and Black Hawk Down. The film received generally negative reviews, but Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised Moore and West’s “quietly convincing” performances. It was a modest box office hit, earning $41,281,092 in the U.S. alone, and was a sleeper hit in Asia. The total revenue generated worldwide was $47,494,916. Moore received a number of nominations and awards for her performance in the film.

In 2003, Moore co-starred with Allison Janney, Peter Gallagher and Trent Ford in the romantic comedy-drama How to Deal, based on Sarah Dessen’s novels That Summer and Someone like You. She played Halley Martin, a cynical and rebellious seventeen-year-old who deals with falling in love with Macon Forrester (Ford), the new boy at her school and her relationships and issues with her family and friends. The film failed to find teenage audiences in the U.S. and grossed a total of $14 million domestically.

In 2003, Moore began working on her fourth studio album, later revealed to be a cover album called Coverage. The album had covers of 1970s and 1980s songs and was produced by John Fields. Moore’s cover of John Hiatt’s 1987 song “Have a Little Faith in Me” was released as the album’s lead single shortly before the album, but it failed to enter any charts. The album was released on October 21, 2003, and received generally mixed reviews. Allmusic called the album a “leap to musical maturity,” but Entertainment Weekly called it an “effort to shed her bubblegum-blond image.”

Late in 2004, Moore co-starred with Jena Malone, Macaulay Culkin and Patrick Fugit in the religion satirical comedy-drama Saved!. She played Hilary Faye Stockard, a proper and popular girl at a Christian high school. The film received generally positive reviews, but it did not receive a wide release. Moore’s performance was praised, with one critic calling her a “demented delight” and another calling it her best performance to date. She and Michael Stipe covered The Beach Boys’ 1966 song “God Only Knows”, which bookended the film.

In 2004, Moore co-starred with Matthew Goode in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty. She played Anna Foster, the rebellious eighteen-year-old “First Daughter” who wants more freedom from the Secret Service. The film grossed approximately $12 million. Both How to Deal and Chasing Liberty received generally negative and lukewarm reviews, respectively; but Ebert singled Moore’s performances out again and said in his review of How to Deal that Moore has “an unaffected natural charm” and “almost makes the movie worth seeing,” and said in his review of Chasing Liberty that she has “undeniable screen presence and inspires instant affection.” Other critics called Moore an “actress of limited range,” but one review of Chasing Liberty called her the “most painless of former pop princesses.” (Another romantic comedy with a similar theme, First Daughter, which starred Katie Holmes, was released later that year.)

The album debuted at number 14 on the Billboard 200 chart, with first week sales of 53,000. This made it Moore’s highest debut on the chart, and highest-peaking album to date, but it is her lowest-selling, and her first album not to be certified by the RIAA. Moore’s cover of XTC’s 1982 song “Senses Working Overtime” was released as the album’s second single and also failed to have any chart success. Moore’s cover of Carole King’s 1971 song “I Feel the Earth Move” was also on the compilation album Love Rocks from LGBT rights supporters. In 2004, Moore left Epic after five years of service because of creative differences. Moore and the label released her greatest hits album, The Best of Mandy Moore that had no new songs, on November 16, 2004, to end her contract. The album reached number 148 on the Billboard 200. Moore’s second compilation album, Candy, was released on April 5, 2005.

Moore’s fashion career began in 2005 with her own fashion line called Mblem. that was a brand of contemporary knitwear and cashmere. One of her focuses was to sell clothing for taller women (Moore is 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m)). In February 2009, Moore announced that the line would be discontinued, but that she hoped to return to her fashion career under different circumstances in the future.

In 2005, Moore co-starred in the sports family comedy-drama Racing Stripes, where she voiced Sandy the white horse, and guest-starred in the HBO comedy-drama Entourage. Moore was also originally scheduled to star in the films Cursed, Havoc and The Upside of Anger, which were all eventually released in 2005, but without her involvement in any of them.

In 2006, Moore talked about her early albums, saying she believed her debut album So Real was appropriate for her age at the time when she released it, but she felt it “sucked” and that her first two albums were “just awful”. Moore also said that she “would give a refund to everyone who bought [her] first two albums” if she could. During a radio interview in April 2006, the show’s co-host—who had seen Moore’s comments—asked her for a refund on her debut album, which she fulfilled.

Later in 2006, Moore voiced Nita, the heroine of the Disney animated sequel Brother Bear 2, which was released directly to DVD on August 29, 2006. ComingSoon.net praised Moore’s “surprisingly good performance.” That same year, Moore was originally cast in Emilio Estevez’s drama Bobby, but was replaced by Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Moore also co-starred with Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid and William Dafoe in Paul Weitz’s satirical comedy American Dreamz, which was released in April 2006. She played Sally Kendoo, a sociopathic contestant on a singing competition series modelled after American Idol. Weitz said that he had Moore in mind for the role before she was cast, explaining that “there’s something inherently sweet about Mandy; it makes it all the more interesting to see her in a villainess role.” Moore has said that she enjoys playing mean-spirited characters, but fears being typecast as a villain. The film opened at number nine at the U.S. box office, eventually totaling barely $7 million, and it received generally mixed reviews. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly praised Moore’s and Grant’s “wicked barbed chemistry” in their roles, but Robert Koehler of Variety called Moore’s role a “pitch-perfect study of a woman for whom a reality show is reality.”

Moore also co-starred with Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid and William Dafoe in Paul Weitz’s satirical comedy American Dreamz, which was released in April 2006. She played Sally Kendoo, a sociopathic contestant on a singing competition series modelled after American Idol. Weitz said that he had Moore in mind for the role before she was cast, explaining that “there’s something inherently sweet about Mandy; it makes it all the more interesting to see her in a villainess role.” Moore has said that she enjoys playing mean-spirited characters, but fears being typecast as a villain. The film opened at number nine at the U.S. box office, eventually totaling barely $7 million, and it received generally mixed reviews. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly praised Moore’s and Grant’s “wicked barbed chemistry” in their roles, but Robert Koehler of Variety called Moore’s role a “pitch-perfect study of a woman for whom a reality show is reality.”

Moore, citing her conservative upbringing, expressed displeasure with her appearance on a May 2006 cover of Cosmopolitan where the headline was “orgasms unlimited”, which referred to an article unrelated to her. Afterward, Moore co-starred with Diane Keaton, Gabriel Macht and Tom Everett Scott in the romantic comedy Because I Said So. In the film, Milly Wilder (Moore) describes in detail the feeling of an orgasm to her mother Daphne (Keaton). The film was released on February 2, 2007, and received mixed to negative reviews, but was a financial success, earning over $69 million worldwide at the box office. Later that year, Moore co-starred with John Krasinski and Robin Williams in the romantic comedy License to Wed which was released on July 3, 2007. The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 7% rating and a critical consensus of “broad and formulaic”. Metacritic.com rated it 25 out of 100, citing 21 generally negative reviews out of 30 for its rating. Variety called the film “an astonishingly flat romantic comedy, filled with perplexing choices”, but Variety called Moore’s performance “appealing”. The film grossed $10,422,258 in its opening weekend opening at #4 at the U.S. Box Office behind Live Free or Die Hard, Ratatouille and Transformers, which opened at the top spot. The film had grossed $43.8 million domestically and $69.3 million worldwide. On September 24, 2007, Moore guest-starred in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother in the third-season premiere called “Wait for It”. Later that year, she co-starred with Billy Crudup, Tom Wilkinson and Dianne Wiest in the romantic comedy Dedication. She played Lucy Reilly, a struggling children’s book illustrator who falls in love with Henry Roth (Crudup). The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and received mixed to positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that the film received 41% positive reviews, based on 46 reviews. Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 50 out of 100, based on 19 reviews.

In early 2006, Moore said that she missed her music career and that singing is what she was the “most passionate about”. In 2004, Moore signed with Sire Records after her contract with Epic ended, but she left the label in May 2006 because of creative differences. She signed with The Firm Music, owned by EMI, in July that year, calling her recording contract “especially exciting”, and saying that she left Sire because she did not want to “follow the mainstream”, but rather have “complete control and freedom” over her music. Moore’s fifth studio album Wild Hope was released on June 19, 2007, and Moore collaborated with record producer John Alagía and a number of musicians on it, including Chantal Kreviazuk, Lori McKenna, Rachael Yamagata and The Weepies. Moore stayed alone in a house in Woodstock in Upstate New York while recording the album in late 2006. Moore performed the album’s lead single “Extraordinary” at the Brick Awards on April 12, 2007, and launched a tour in the summer of 2007. The album received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Billboard said that “Wild Hope is the gratifying sound of a singer finally finding her comfort zone. Gone is the sugary pop of Moore’s early career, replaced instead by thoughtful musings on love and life…an album full of subtle, but undeniable hooks.” The album debuted on the U.S. Billboard 200 at #30, selling a mere 25,000 copies the first week of its release, according to Billboard. It is Moore’s third-highest-debuting album, falling short of her fourth studio album Coverage (2003), which debuted at #14 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 59,000 copies. The album also reached #9 on The Top Internet albums. After five weeks, the album charted off the Billboard 200, but it returned to the chart at #118 after selling 5,500 copies. To date, the album has sold over 120,000 copies in the U.S. and more than 350,000 copies worldwide. On February 23, 2008, Moore released the album in Australia, and subsequently toured with musician Ben Lee and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in Western Australia, supporting inaugural American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson on her tour. In October 2008, Moore posted on her website blog live videos of three songs that she had been working on with singer-songwriter, record producer, pianist and guitarist Mike Viola. It was rumoured to be a duo album between Moore and Viola, but then in January 2009, it was revealed it would be Moore’s sixth studio album with a collaboration with Viola, that was scheduled to be released in April 2009.

Moore dated former Scrubs star Zach Braff from 2004 to 2006. In 2008, Moore began dating former Whiskeytown frontman Ryan Adams. They became engaged in February 2009 and married on March 10, 2009, in Savannah, Georgia. In January 2015, Moore filed for divorce from Adams while he was in New York, citing “irreconcilable differences”. Moore and Adams later released a joint statement explaining their decision, calling it a “respectful, amicable parting of ways”, but in 2019, she called him emotionally abusive. Court documents obtained later revealed that they had been legally separated for nearly six months before the filing. The divorce was finalized in June 2016.

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