Canadian actress Carrie-Anne Moss, who portrayed the character Trinity in all four Matrix movies, was born to parents Barbara and Melvyn Moss of British Columbia in August of 1967.
Why was she named Carrie-Anne?
Her mother named her after the song “Carrie-Anne,” by the Hollies. It was a last-minute change. She almost got named Jenny Rebecca, after a Barbra Streisand hit of a previous summer. A disaster narrowly averted.
“Carrie Anne,” which was released in May of 1967, peaked at #9 on Billboard‘s U.S. Hot 100 chart a couple of weeks before Moss was born. (Billboard didn’t launch a Canadian Hot 100 chart until mid-2007.)
“Jenny Rebecca,” on the other hand, was never released as a single. But it was the third track on Streisand’s best-selling album My Name Is Barbra (1965).
Sources:
- Hochman, David. “Carrie-Anne Moss Is the One.” Esquire 29 Jan. 2007.
- Carrie-Anne Moss – Wikipedia
- My Name Is Barbra – Wikipedia
Image: Adapted from Carrie-Anne Moss at Peabody’s “Marvel’s Jessica Jones” Night by Jana Lynn French/Peabody under CC BY 2.0.
I always wondered if she was named after the Hollies song; it’s one of my favorites from that era. I don’t think I’ve ever heard “Jenny Rebecca,” but my dad was a huge Streisand fan, and our last name is Moss. So in some alternate universe, maybe I have the same name as Carrie-Anne Moss.
Maybe so! :)