Jemma Moore

Jemma Moore (born 18 March 1992) is a British actress and filmmaker.

Early life and education Jemma Moore was born on 18 March 1992 in Hong Kong to a Chinese mother and British father

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.

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 Stalling 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. She is pansexual.

Moore's great aunt Eve Moore was an actress who was married to distinguished commander Guy Gibson.

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