Overview
- Her family said she died on Wednesday, August 5, 2026, in Huntsville, Ontario, and announced the news on her official Facebook page.
- The family statement said she passed “surrounded by family physically and spiritually” and praised “her bravery in this choice,” but did not give a medical cause of death.
- Moore trained at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, won the Principal’s Medal in 1967, and earned a Genie Award nomination for her role as Miss Shields in the 1983 film A Christmas Story.
- She publicly disclosed a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 2009; coverage notes her son, producer Noah “40” Shebib, also has had an MS diagnosis.
- Tributes have emphasized her theatrical family lineage, decades of stage and screen work, and the lasting cultural imprint of A Christmas Story, which is preserved in the U.S. National Film Registry.