‘Lady In The Lake’s Moses Ingram On The “Opportunity to Show Her Potential” & Her Role In Kathryn Bigelow’s “Top Secret” White House Thriller
Moses Ingram first came to viewers’ attention as Jolene, the best friend of Anya Taylor-Joy’s character in The Queen’s Gambit, a role that earned Ingram an Emmy nomination. After parts in Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Tragedy of Macbeth and Ambulance, the Baltimore native returned to home turf for a starring role on Alma Har’el’s Lady in the Lake, a whodunit about a Jewish housewife in the 1960s, played by the show’s exec producer Natalie Portman, who risks everything to become an investigative journalist trying to solve the death of Cleo Johnson, played by Ingram. The limited series that pushes all boundaries when it comes to genre and tone is a wild showcase for Ingram, who gets to demonstrate every skill she has as an actress. But for the 30-year-old, the highlight of the project was returning to the place her ambitions were born. “I did a lot of dreaming in Baltimore. I don’t know if I’ve dreamed as hard since I left,” she says. “I always thought if I was going to do anything with my life, I’d have to leave. For the most transformative work of my adult life to be right back there, I couldn’t write it better.”