Moira (given name)
Encyclopedia
Television and film
- Moira BrookerMoira BrookerMoira Brooker is an English actress best known for her role as Judith Hanson in the British sitcom As Time Goes By . This programme lasted for nine seasons and was popular in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the United States, where it is still broadcast weekly on PBS...
, British actress - Moira BuffiniMoira BuffiniMoira Buffini is an English dramatist, director and actor.-Career:Buffini was born in Cheshire to Irish parents, and trained as an actor at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. For Jordan, co-written with Anna Reynolds in 1992, she won a Time Out Award for her performance and Writers' Guild Award...
, British dramatist, director and actor associated with the In-yer-face theatre style - Moira Chen, a pseudonym for actress Laura GemserLaura GemserLaurette Marcia "Laura" Gemser is a Dutch-based actress of Indo descent, now Italian citizen. She is known for her work with director Joe D'Amato and Bruno Mattei, in particular, for doing a set of exploitation-style and Black Emanuelle films.Gemser has also been credited as Moira Chen, most...
- Moira HarrisMoira HarrisMoira Harris is an American actress.Harris was born in Pontiac, Illinois and is Roman Catholic. She graduated from Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. During her college years, she met her husband Gary Sinise, and they have been married since 1981...
, American actress - Moira KellyMoira KellyMoira Kelly is an American actress. She is best known for playing single mother Karen Roe on the teen drama One Tree Hill. She also directed two episodes of the series: "Resolve" and "I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me"...
, American actress - Moira ListerMoira ListerMoira Lister de Gachassin-Lafite, Vicomtesse d’Orthez was an Anglo-South African film, stage and television actress, and writer.-Early life:...
, British actress - Moira McLeanMoira McLeanMoira McLean is an Australian television presenter. She is a household name in Australia through her regular appearances on Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton on the TEN Network which ran from 1992 until December 2005. She presented advertorials that were usually pretaped...
, Australian morning television presenter - Moira QuirkMoira QuirkMoira Shannon Quirk is a British actress, voice actress and sex symbol who was the referee of the Nickelodeon game show Nickelodeon GUTS for four seasons....
, English actress - Moira RedmondMoira RedmondMoira Redmond was a British actress.She was born in Bognor Regis, England, the daughter of the actress Molly Redmond and her husband who was a stage manager...
, British actress - Moira ShearerMoira ShearerMoira Shearer, Lady Kennedy , was an internationally famous Scottish ballet dancer and actress.-Early life:She was born Moira Shearer King in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, the daughter of actor Harold V. King...
, Scottish ballerina and actress - Moira StuartMoira StuartMoira Clare Ruby Stuart OBE is a British journalist who was the first African-Caribbean female newsreader on British television...
, the first Black woman newsreader on British television
Other fields
- Moira AndersonMoira AndersonMoira Anderson, OBE is a Scottish singer.- Life and career :Following an education at Lenzie Academy, Anderson quickly established herself at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow before getting her big break in the media after a successful audition at the BBC.She landed her...
, Scottish singer - Moira BrinnandMoira BrinnandMoira Martha Brinnand is a retired female field hockey player from Argentina. She was a member of the Women's National Team that finished in seventh place at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea after having won the gold medal the previous year at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis.-...
, Argentine field hockey player - Moira BrownMoira BrownDr. Moira Brown is a Canadian-born North Atlantic right whale researcher and senior scientist instrumental in spearheading the initiative to get the Government of Canada, shipping industry and scientists to address ship strikes and North Atlantic right whale mortality in the Bay of Fundy, Canada...
, Canadian-born North Atlantic right whale researcher - Moira Breen, another name for writer Marion Zimmer BradleyMarion Zimmer BradleyMarion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...
- Moira CameronMoira Cameron-External links:*...
, British soldier, first woman Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London - Moira CroneMoira CroneMoira Crone is an American fiction author. She was born in the tobacco country in eastern North Carolina. She is the author of three collections of short fiction and a novel....
, American fiction author - Moira Leiper DucharmeMoira Leiper DucharmeMoira Leiper Ducharme was the first female mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia . Ducharme currently lives in Windsor Forks, Nova Scotia.-References:...
, first female mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia - Moira GunnMoira GunnMoira Gunn is host of the radio programs and BioTech Nation, aired by National Public Radio. Tech Nation episodes are normally based on an interview with the author of a science or technology book...
, American radio host - Moira MacLeodMoira MacLeodMoira MacLeod is a retired female field hockey player from England, who was a member of the British squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics.-References:*...
, British field hockey player - Moira O'NeillMoira O'NeillMoira O'Neill was the pseudonym of Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , a popular Irish-Canadian poet who wrote ballads and other verse inspired by County Antrim, where she lived at Cushendun....
, Irish-Canadian poet - Moira Petrie, Tucson Arizona resident, future singer
Fictional characters
- Moira Brandon, in the Marvel Comics universe
- Moira MacTaggertMoira MacTaggertDr. Moira Kinross MacTaggert is a fictional character appearing in X-Men stories in the Marvel Comics universe. She works as a geneticist and is an expert in mutant affairs. Olivia Williams played a minor role of Dr. Moira MacTaggert in X-Men: The Last Stand...
, recurring character in X-Men comic books - Moira/Max Sweeney, on the Showtime television network series The L Word