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Tedde Moore, Miss Shields in A Christmas Story, Dies at 79

Her passing highlights a long stage and screen career and a public struggle with multiple sclerosis that shaped her later life.

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.