Chloë Grace Moretz

Independent cinema gave Moretz some of her strongest later showcases. In Clouds of Sils Maria she played a young celebrity whose image unsettles older artists around her. In The Miseducation of Cameron Post she played a teenager sent to a gay conversion-therapy program; the film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and became one of her most respected dramatic roles. She also starred in Mother/Android and Shadow in the Cloud, continuing her interest in genre pieces centered on young women under extreme pressure.

Voice work has become another important strand of her career. Moretz voiced Wednesday Addams in the animated Addams Family films and voiced the title character in Nimona, an animated fantasy about identity, fear, and chosen loyalty. On television, she led the science-fiction series The Peripheral, based on William Gibson's novel, playing Flynne Fisher in a story that mixed economic anxiety, virtual worlds, and time-bending conspiracy.

Moretz's public career is unusual because audiences watched her grow from child actor to adult performer while she moved among very different types of material. Her best roles often use that history: she can project toughness, skepticism, youth, and vulnerability at the same time. Whether in Kick-Ass, Let Me In, Hugo, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, The Peripheral, or Nimona, she has remained associated with characters who are underestimated until they reveal emotional or physical force.

References:

[1] Wikipedia, “Chloë Grace Moretz” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlo%C3%AB_Grace_Moretz

[2] The Movie Database, “Chloë Grace Moretz” — https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56734-chloe-grace-moretz

[3] IMDb, “Chloë Grace Moretz” — https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1631269/

[4] Sundance Institute, “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” — https://festival.sundance.org/

[5] Netflix, “Nimona” — https://www.netflix.com/title/81444554

[6] Prime Video, “The Peripheral” — https://www.amazon.com/The-Peripheral-Season-1/dp/B0B8TFMYXZ

[7] The Movie Database, “Kick-Ass” — https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/23483

[8] The Movie Database, “Let Me In” — https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/41402

[9] The Movie Database, “Hugo” — https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/44826

[10] The Movie Database, “Carrie” — https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/133805

[11] The Movie Database, “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” — https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/426613

[12] The Movie Database, “The 5th Wave” — https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/299687

The Addams Family

as Wednesday Addams (voice) · 2019 · Not rated yet