Moby
Moby was born on Sep 11, 1965 in USA. Moby's big-screen debut came with Joe's Apartment directed by John Payson in 1996, strarring Club DeeJay (as Richard 'Moby' Hall). Moby is known for #Powerplant directed by Robert van Tellingen, Birgit Dekkers stars as Self and Alexis Gauthier as Self. Moby has got 4 awards and 16 nominations so far. The most recent award Moby achieved is BMI Film & TV Awards. The upcoming new movie Moby plays is Moby Doc which will be released on May 28, 2021.
Richard Melville Hall was born September 11, 1965, in the Manhattan, New York City, in the Harlem neighborhood to Elizabeth McBride (née Warner) and James Frederick Hall. His mother was a medical secretary and his father a professor of chemistry. The nickname Moby was assigned by his father, and was a reference to the book "Moby-Dick". Moby claims that Herman Melville, the author of "Moby-Dick" is his Great-Great-Great-Uncle. Moby's father died in a car accident when he was two years old after which his mother moved them first to San Francisco in 1969, and then between the Connecticut towns of Darien and Stratford.At the age of nine, Moby began to play classical guitar and piano and then studied jazz, music theory, and percussion. In 1983, he joined the punk band the Vatican Commandos as a guitarist. Moby formed AWOL, known as a post punk group, and released a self-titled EP where he is credited as Moby Hall. Moby studied philosophy at the University of Connecticut and began to move from classical instruments toward electronic music, starting as a DJ for the college radio station WHUS. He transferred to State University of New York at Purchase, continuing to study philosophy and gaining interest in photography, but dropped out of college completely to pursue a DJ career.In addition to music, Moby also started "Little Idiot Collective", a combination clothing store, comics store, and animation studio, a raw and vegan restaurant called "TeaNY" and his last venture, Little Pine, is a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles from which all profits are donated to animal welfare causes.Today, Moby is known as an electronic music pioneer, vegan, and activist championing causes to bring awareness to animal welfare and climate change.
Birthday
Sep 11, 1965Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Awards
4 wins & 16 nominations
Movies & TV Shows
- 20216.8
- 2020
composer
- 2020
- 20198.6
- 20177.3
- 2017
music department
7.6 - 2017
music department
8.9 - 2016
There's a Stranger in My Mirror
composer
- 20167.4
- 2015
composer
- 2015
composer
- 2015
- 20157.4
- 2014
composer
6.9 - 2014
music department
7.3 - 2014
music department
6.8 - 2014
music department
- 2012
music department
7.4 - 2010
composer
7.5 - 2010
composer
- 2009
composer
- 2009
composer
7.8 - 20096.0
- 2008
composer
7.2 - 2008
composer
7.8 - 2008
music department
- 2006
composer
5.3 - 2005
composer, music department
8.6 - 20056.3
- 2004
Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
music department, composer
6.9 - 20034.7
- 2000
music department
6.5 - 1999
composer
7.2 - 1999
music department
6.9 - 1997
composer
5.2 - 19965.5