{"id":269865,"date":"2022-06-13T12:38:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=269865"},"modified":"2022-06-12T19:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T00:30:45","slug":"hallmark-actress-down-syndrome-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hallmark-actress-down-syndrome-oscar\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallmark actress wants to be the first with Down syndrome to win an Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actress Lily D. Moore, who has Down syndrome, recently made history with her starring role in an upcoming Hallmark movie<\/a>. But for this rising star, it’s only the beginning \u2014 and her dreams are much bigger.<\/p>\n

Moore is starring in “Color My World With Love,” in which she plays an impressionist painter named Kendall, who strikes up a romance with a character named Brad, who also has Down syndrome. At the time, Moore said she wanted the movie to show that people with Down syndrome have “endless possibilities.”<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone has a dream to fall in love and get married one day, even people with disabilities,\u201d she told Entertainment Tonight. \u201cI hope viewers take away that \u2018Color My World With Love\u2019 is about painting your own story through your emotions and that we all have endless possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

But for Moore, the Hallmark movie is just the beginning. In an interview with PEOPLE<\/a>, she said she has a much bigger goal: to be the first actress with Down syndrome to win an Oscar. Nineteen-year-old Moore said she’s been acting since she was six years old, and has always known it was what she wanted to do. “Color My World With Love” was the first step towards opening that door.<\/p>\n