Moira Kelly - wikipedia Moira Kelly This article is about the American actress. For the Australian humanitarian, see Moira Kelly ( humanitarian ). Moira Kelly ( 1968 - 03 - 06 ) March 6, 1968 ( age 50 ) Queens, New York, U.S. Occupation Actress Years active 1991 -- present Spouse ( s ) Steve Hewitt ( m. 2000 ) Children Moira Kelly ( born March 6, 1968 ) is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Kate Moseley in the 1992 film The Cutting Edge, as well as single mother Karen Roe on the teen drama One Tree Hill. She is also known for playing the role of Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks : Fire Walk with Me, replacing Lara Flynn Boyle in the prequel to the 1990 TV series Twin Peaks. Other roles include Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels : The Dorothy Day Story, White House media consultant Mandy Hampton in the first season of The West Wing, and the voice of Simba 's love interest Nala in The Lion King and its sequel The Lion King II : Simba 's Pride. She also played Hetty Kelly and Oona O'Neill in Chaplin. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4.1 Film 4.2 Television 5 References 6 External links Early Life Kelly was born in Queens, New York, a daughter of Irish immigrants. Her father, Peter, was trained as a concert violinist, and her mother, Anne, is a nurse. Kelly is the third of six children and was raised in Ronkonkoma. She was brought up as a Catholic. Kelly attended Connetquot Senior High School in Bohemia, Long Island, graduating in the class of 1986. Later, she attended Marymount Manhattan College. In her youth, Kelly was cast in a small role in her high school 's 1984 production of Annie. Due to illness, the girl playing Miss Hannigan was replaced, causing a series of cast changes leading to her choice of career. A faithful Catholic, Kelly had to decide between acting and her childhood ambition of becoming a nun. Career Kelly made her professional acting debut in the made - for - TV movie Love, Lies and Murder, playing as a teenage murderer. She went on to have small roles in the films The Boy Who Cried Bitch, Hi - Life, and Billy Bathgate before being cast as Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks : Fire Walk with Me. For that film, she went home and got permission from her priest because of an explicit sex scene. In the same year, she starred opposite D.B. Sweeney in the romantic comedy The Cutting Edge and played two roles opposite Robert Downey, Jr. in Chaplin. According to a TV Guide interview, before taking on her role in Daybreak, Kelly once again asked her priest for advice : `` Being a Catholic, I wondered if it would be against my religion to play a girl who has premarital sex. '' The priest told her `` it was okay, as long as my artistic intentions were true and I was n't doing it for the notoriety or the money. '' She has since appeared in the movies With Honors, Little Odessa, The Tie That Binds and Dangerous Beauty amongst others, and provided the adult voice of Nala in Disney 's The Lion King, The Lion King II : Simba 's Pride, and The Lion King 11⁄2. In her independent film career, Kelly had the starring role of activist Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels : The Dorothy Day Story and starred alongside Glenn Close in The Safety of Objects. She played Helen Keller in the made - for - TV movie Monday After the Miracle, which broadcast on November 15, 1998, on CBS. Kelly starred in the CBS drama To Have & to Hold opposite Jason Beghe before playing Mandy Hampton in the first season of The West Wing. In 2003, Kelly began playing single mother Karen Roe on the teen drama One Tree Hill. She also directed two episodes of the series : `` Resolve '' ( 2007 ) and `` I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me '' ( 2006 ). In the fifth season, she ceased to be a regular cast member, but made guest appearances in the 100th episode and the sixth - season finale. She has made guest appearances in television shows such as Heroes, Law & Order, and Numb3rs. Kelly has also appeared in the films Remember the Daze, A Smile as Big as the Moon and Taken Back : Finding Haley. Personal Life In 2000, Kelly married Steve Hewitt, a Texas businessman. They have two children : daughter Ella ( born 2001 ) and son Eamon ( born 2003 ). They currently live in Flower Mound, Texas. Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1991 Boy Who Cried Bitch, The The Boy Who Cried Bitch Jessica Billy Bathgate Becky Thirty Below Zero Lucy Short Cutting Edge, The The Cutting Edge Kate Moseley Twin Peaks : Fire Walk with Me Donna Hayward Chaplin Hetty Kelly / Oona O'Neill With Honors Courtney Blumenthal Lion King, The The Lion King Adult Nala ( voice ) Little Odessa Alla Shustervich 1995 Tie That Binds, The The Tie That Binds Dana Clifton Unhook the Stars Ann Mary Margaret `` Annie '' Hawks Entertaining Angels : The Dorothy Day Story Dorothy Day Love Walked In Vera Changing Habits Soosh Teague Drive, She Said Nadine Ship 1998 Dangerous Beauty Beatrice Venier Hi - Life Susan Lion King II : Simba 's Pride, The The Lion King II : Simba 's Pride Nala ( voice ) Video 1999 Henry Hill Cynthia Safety of Objects, The The Safety of Objects Susan Train Woman Reported, AA Woman Reported Woman Short Lion King 11⁄2, The The Lion King 11⁄2 Nala ( voice ) Video 2006 Two Tickets to Paradise Kate 2007 Remember the Daze Mrs. Ford 2014 Twin Peaks : The Missing Pieces Donna Hayward Deleted Scenes from Twin Peaks : Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ) Television Year Title Role Notes 1991 Love, Lies and Murder Cinnamon Brown TV miniseries Daybreak Blue TV film 1998 Monday After the Miracle Helen Keller TV film To Have & to Hold Annie Cornell Main role 1999 - 00 West Wing, The The West Wing Mandy Hampton Regular role 2002 Hack Vanessa Griffin `` My Brother 's Keeper '' Twilight Zone, The The Twilight Zone Elizabeth Carter `` Found and Lost '' 2003 - 09 One Tree Hill Karen Roe Regular role 2008 Law & Order Katherine Donovan `` Betrayal '' 2009 Heroes Abby Collins `` Building 26 '' Numb3rs Mary Paulson `` Growin ' Up '' 2012 Smile as Big as the Moon, AA Smile as Big as the Moon Darcy Kersjes TV film Taken Back : Finding Haley Karen TV film 2013 Drop Dead Diva Cindy Kasper `` 50 Shades of Grayson '' 2017 Deadly Sorority Prof. Amy Thomas TV film 2018 Girl in the Bunker Madeline Shoaf TV film References Jump up ^ Giles, Jeff ( 1993 - 01 - 03 ). `` Moira Kelly ; Playing Two Roles in ' Chaplin ' While Dreaming of Joan of Arc ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 2010 - 05 - 20. She is an ardent Roman Catholic... ^ Jump up to : Buchanan, Jason. `` Moira Kelly > Biography ''. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2010 - 01 - 08. Jump up ^ `` A Message from Marrs ''. Archived 2009 - 10 - 22 at the Wayback Machine. This Rock. February 1993. Jump up ^ `` Moira Kelly ''. External links Moira Kelly on IMDb `` The Lion Queen '' : An Interview with Moira Kelly by Aaron Wallace at UltimateDisney.com Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series 2000 : The West Wing, season 1 / season 2 Hill Janney Kelly Lowe Moloney Schiff Sheen Spencer Whitford 2001 : The West Wing, season 2 / season 3 Hill Janney Lowe Moloney Schiff Sheen Spencer Whitford 2002 : Six Feet Under, season 2 Ambrose Conroy Griffiths Hall Krause Rodríguez St. Patrick 2003 : Six Feet Under, season 3 Ambrose Conroy Foster Griffiths Hall Krause Macdissi Machado Rodríguez St. Patrick Taylor Wilson 2004 : CSI : Crime Scene Investigation, season 4 / season 5 Dourdan Eads Fox Guilfoyle Hall Helgenberger Petersen Szmanda 2005 : Lost, season 1 / season 2 Akinnuoye - Agbaje Andrews de Ravin Fox Garcia Grace Holloway Kelley D.D. Kim Y. Kim Lilly Monaghan O'Quinn Perrineau Rodriguez Somerhalder Watros 2006 : Grey 's Anatomy, season 2 / season 3 Chambers Dane Dempsey Heigl Knight Oh Pickens Pompeo Ramirez Walsh Washington Wilson 2007 : The Sopranos, season 6, part II Antonacci Bracco Falco Gandolfini Grimaldi Iler Imperioli Nascarella Schirripa Servitto Sigler Sirico Turturro Van Zandt Vincent 2008 : Mad Men, season 2 Batt Brie Gladis Hamm Hart Hendricks Jones Kartheiser Moses Moss Shipka Slattery Sommer Staton 2009 : Mad Men, season 3 Alemanni Batt Gilmore Gladis Hamm Harris Hendricks Jones Kartheiser Morse Moss Shipka Slattery Sommer Stanley Staton Complete list ( 1994 -- 1999 ) ( 2000 -- 2009 ) ( 2010 -- present ) VIAF : 42040934 LCCN : no96006540 ISNI : 0000 0000 5924 8319 GND : 12957984X BNF : cb14039374w ( data ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moira_Kelly&oldid=836790003 '' Categories : 1968 births American film actresses American people of Irish descent American Roman Catholics American television actresses American voice actresses Living people Marymount Manhattan College alumni Actresses from New York City 20th - century American actresses 21st - century American actresses People from Queens, New York People from Ronkonkoma, New York Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links Articles with hCards All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from April 2011 Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Acèh Aragonés Arpetan تۆرکجه Bân - lâm - gú Català Čeština Chavacano de Zamboanga Dansk Deutsch Dolnoserbski Eesti Ελληνικά Español Estremeñu Euskara فارسی Français Gaeilge Gàidhlig 客家 語 / Hak - kâ - ngî 한국어 हिन्दी Hrvatski Íslenska Italiano Kirundi Bahasa Melayu Nederlands 日本 語 Napulitano Norsk Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча Papiamentu Polski Português Qaraqalpaqsha Русский Simple English Српски / srpski Svenska Tagalog Türkçe Türkmençe Volapük Winaray Yorùbá 粵語 Zazaki 40 more Edit links This page was last edited on 16 April 2018, at 21 : 16. 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Question: who plays the girl in the cutting edge
Answer: Moira Kelly