- Born
- Died
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- African American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early 1950s, a time in which few black people were given an opportunity to act in major studio films. Fortunately Moore's roles began improving as Hollywood developed a social consciousness toward the end of the decade. In 1959 she received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Imitation of Life (1959), a glossy updating of a once controversial Fannie Hurst novel about racism. Within the next decade Hollywood underwent several sociological upheavals, and Juanita was one of the beneficiaries. She became a fixture in black-oriented films of the 1960s and 1970s, appearing in such films as Uptight (1968), Thomasine & Bushrod (1974) and Abby (1974). She also appeared in Walt Disney Pictures' The Kid (2000), and was in a total of more than 50 films. Moore retired in 2001 and passed away New Year's Day 2014 . She was 99.- IMDb Mini Biography By: A. Nonymous
- SpousesCharles Thomas Burris(October 8, 1953 - April 27, 2001) (his death)Ananias Berry(November 26, 1942 - October 6, 1951) (his death)
- ParentsHarrison MooreElla Moore
- Former chorus girl at Harlem's famed Cotton Club.
- She collapsed and died at her home in Los Angeles on January 1, 2014, from natural causes. She was 99 years old.
- Following her death, she was interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.
- Grandmother of Kirk E. Kelleykahn.
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