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Moore moved into entrepreneurship, taking on the responsibilities and risks that come with building and running a business. It was this work as an entrepreneur that eventually brought her the formal recognition of an OBE. The Officer of the Order of the British Empire is awarded by the British state, and its conferral on Moore reflected the scope of what she had taken on in her professional life. For a woman who had started out in front of the camera, the transition to running a business represented a significant shift in how she operated — and in what she was prepared to take on.\n\nMoore is a British citizen, English by nationality, and her career has been rooted in that context throughout. She was educated in the state grammar school system, which shaped the early years of her life before she entered the working world. 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