05/23/2026
"Chloe Grace Moretz began her career at seven years old and by fourteen she had already delivered a performance in Kick-Ass that made film critics rethink their assumptions about what child actors are capable of, a performance involving physical comedy, violence, emotional nuance, and a character, the foul-mouthed crimefighter Hit-Girl, so far outside the conventional range of family-friendly children's entertainment that it generated substantial public controversy and simultaneously enormous critical admiration. Born in Atlanta, Georgia in February 1997, she grew up with four older brothers who shaped her toughness, her humour, and her complete comfort in the company of people who challenge each other without malice, and she has credited that specific sibling dynamic with giving her a confidence on set that directors have described as unusually complete for someone so young. Her mother Teri, who managed her career through the early years, has been described by Chloe as her closest collaborator during the period when the decisions being made were shaping everything that came after. She appeared in Let Me In, Hugo, Carrie, If I Stay, and dozens of other projects across a teenage filmography that outstripped in range and ambition what most actors accumulate across an entire adult career. She has been extraordinarily candid about the experience of growing up online as a public figure during the social media era, about the specific cruelty and body-shaming she encountered, and about the process of building a stable sense of self against the backdrop of an internet that generated constant noise about who she was and what she looked like and whether she was acceptable. Chloe Grace Moretz turned a childhood in front of cameras into an adulthood spent advocating loudly for the protections she wished had existed for her."