# Jemma Moore

Jemma Moore is a British actress and filmmaker.

## Early life

Moore was born in Hong Kong to a Chinese mother and British father and moved to England when she was three, where she grew up on a farm in rural Shropshire before moving to Leominster when she was 10. Moore attended Moreton Hall School in Oswestry. She went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English Literature and Drama from Queen Mary University of London. She then pursued a Master of Arts (MA) at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

## Career

One of her first screen roles was in 2013 The Double working alongside Paddy Considine and directed by Richard Ayoade. She was producer of the short film Exile Incessant which won Best Narrative Short at Let’s All Be Free Festival 2016 and Best African film at the San Francisco Black Film Festival the same year. She appeared in Patty Jenkins film Wonder Woman as a member of the Queen's Guard, and produced an all female-crewed short film, All of Me that premiered at Cannes Film Festival and was an official selection at Palm Springs Film Festival. The film also won the Award of Excellence at the Indie Fest Awards 2017.
In 2017, she was the American Broadcasting Company's first British winner of the ABC Discovers talent competition, and with it a one-year talent deal with ABC. She was described as "an extremely talented and skilled actress with a fresh voice,” by ABC's senior VP, talent and casting, Ayo Davis.
In 2019, she appeared in BBC One detective series Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators. She played the role of Li in Tony Giglio’s Doom: Annihilation. She also started her own podcast The HobbyCast in which she interviews guests about their hobbies.
She played Jemma in the 2020 lockdown horror film Host. The character was subsequently included as one of The 100 Best Horror Movie Characters by Empire magazine. She worked with the creative team behind Host again for the 2021 horror film Dashcam and 2023 short horror film Flashback for Netflix.
She directed the short comedy film Stallimg it and also appeared in Scottish comedy series Two Doors Down. She voiced the ghost of Annabel Ward in Joe Cornish young adult series Lockwood & Co in 2023.
She could be seen as journalist Jess Li in the main cast of 2024's Red Eye, a British thriller television series for ITVX. The series was renewed for a second season in September 2024 with Moore confirmed to be returning. That year, she filmed the science-fiction film Moonquake written by Nicole Bartlett and directed by Tom Paton.

## Personal life

Moore received a dyslexia diagnosis at university and later also received an autism and an ADHD diagnosis. She has discussed the possibility that she "found acting at a young age because I felt so different from other people and acting/drama was a safe space to explore what it is like to be human". Her great aunt Eve Moore was an actress who was married to distinguished commander Guy Gibson. Moore is pansexual.

## Partial filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2013 | The Double | | |
| 2017 | Wonder Woman | Queen's Guard | |
| 2019 | Doom: Annihilation | Li | |
| 2019 | Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators | Rose Lin | 1 episode |
| 2020 | Stalling It | Jo | Short film |
| 2020 | Host | Gemma | |
| 2022 | Two Doors Down | Lin | 1 episode |
| 2022 | Dashcam | | |
| 2023 | Silent Witness | Mia | 2 episodes |
| 2023 | Flashback | Jess | Short film |
| 2023 | Lockwood & Co | Annabel Ward | 3 episodes (voice) |
| 2024 | 7 Keys | Izzy | |
| 2024 | Red Eye | Jess Li | 7 episodes |
| TBA | Moonquake | Elise | |