Cathy Moriarty

Cathy Moriarty is an American actress and voice actress, known for her distinctive raspy voice. She is best known for her various film and television roles, such as portraying Vickie LaMotta in the 1980 sports drama film Raging Bull (in which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), Carrigan Crittenden, the main antagonist of the 1995 Universal Pictures live-action film Casper, and Alison Peters in the HBO horror anthology series Tales from the Crypt (in which she won a CableACE Award for Best Actress in a Dramatic Series).

For Disney, she voiced Ruby in the 2001 direct-to-video film Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure. She also played Lu Delano in the 1993 Touchstone Pictures film Another Stakeout and Reba Bush in The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag.

Moriarty was born in The Bronx borough of New York City. She is the daughter of Irish Catholic immigrants Catherine, a homemaker, and John Moriarty, a warehouse worker. She was raised in Yonkers, New York, where she attended Lincoln High School. When she was 18 years old, her friends urged her to enter a bathing beauty contest at a local bar:

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So, I go in there, and my knees are shaking, and I'm breaking out in goose bumps 'cause I'm embarrassed and cold. All these guys are whistling and stuff. Then all of a sudden the emcee announces I won first prize, and I say, 'Hey, this is really funny'. So this Italian guy comes up and asks if he can take my picture and I say, 'Sure, go ahead', 'cause he's gonna take it anyway. And whad'd'ya know, this same guy calls me three weeks later, says his name is Joe Pesci and asks if I'd like to test for a part in this movie about a boxer named Jake LaMotta.

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