Early life

Carrie-Anne Moss was born in Burnaby, British Columbia. She has an older brother, Brooke. Moss's mother Barbara named her after The Hollies' 1967 hit song, "Carrie-Anne." Moss lived with her mother in Vancouver as a child. At the age of eleven, she joined the Vancouver children's musical theatre and later went on to tour Europe with the Magee Secondary School Choir in her senior year. She attended high school with Gil Bellows. She enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena upon her return. In 1985, she left Vancouver for Toronto and became a model. This career took her to Japan and Spain in the late 1980s.