Mary Agnes Moore (23 July 1890 – 3 February 1919) was an Irish-born American actress in silent films, part of a family of film actors.

Early life and education

Moore was born in County Meath, Ireland, the daughter of Rosanna Moore. She immigrated to the United States with her brothers and their widowed mother in 1896. Her brothers

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were all silent film actors too. Her sisters-in-law were also actors, including Grace Cunard,

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, and Mary Pickford during her lifetime.

Career

Moore was an actress in silent films, with roles in ''Lena Rivers'' (1914), ''The Mad Mountaineer'' (1914),''The Adventure at Briarcliff'' (1915), ''Prohibition'' (1915), ''

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'' (1915), '' Under Southern Skies'' (1915), ''The Meddler'' (1915), '' The Great Divide'' (1915), '' A Million a Minute'' (1916), ''Without a Soul'' (1916), ''The Unconventional Girl'' (1916), ''Weighed in the Balance'' (1916), ''Ignorance'' (1916), ''The Warfare of the Flesh'' (1917), and ''Miss Deception'' (1917). She was also a scenario writer for films. She was associated with

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's production company in 1916, and with Edward Warren's "Transgressor" production company in 1917. Moore went to France as a volunteer with the

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during World War I.

Death

Moore died in

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, in February 1919, at the age of 28, from pneumonia during the worldwide influenza pandemic. She was temporarily buried with military honors at Tours. In 1922 her remains were re-interred at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Mary Agnes 1890 births 1919 deaths People from County Meath American stage actresses American silent film actresses 20th-century American actresses American women in World War I Irish emigrants to the United States Deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic in France