Shemar Moore Wife, Kids, Bio, Wiki, Girlfriend, Net worth
Aria Murphy
Published Jan 06, 2026
Hot and talented are perhaps the first two words that best describe Shemar Moore. The Emmy-winning actor has been in Hollywood for over a decade and has scored and impressed with roles in projects including The Young and the Restless and Criminal Minds.
The small-screen staple, in 2016, quit his 11-season role as Derek Morgan in Criminal Minds and soon after joined the cast of another crime drama TV series, SWAT.
“When I left CRIMINAL MINDS, it was a blind leap. I just believed in myself and I was hungry to grow. I didn’t know SWAT was coming. I had no idea. I was an unemployed actor trying to figure it out. But my mom gave me a card that said, “Leap and the net will appear.” I went on vacation to Sydney, Australia, and got lost. I walked away from the business. I was like, ‘I’m chilling,’” the hunky actor said when asked in an interview by Soap Opera Digest if he was in talks for the role of SWAT when he left Criminal Minds.
Before his acting skills brought him to the world, Moore began his career as a model.
Shemar Moore Bio/Wiki
Shemar Franklin Moore was born on April 20, 1970, in Oakland, California, to an African-American father, Sherrod Moore, and a Caucasian (Irish and French-Canadian) mother, Marilyn Wilson. Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Moore’s mother is a mathematician who works as a business consultant.
Moore’s parents divorced when he was a baby and as a result he spent most of his childhood with his mother, first in Bahrain and later in Denmark. Moore’s mother had moved with him to Europe where she worked as a teacher.
Moore and his mother spent 7 years in Europe before returning to the United States and settling in Chico, California and then Palo Alto, where he attended Gunn High School. While in Europe, he had attended a British private school.
Moore attended Santa Clara University where he took Theater Arts as a minor and Communications as a major. Despite his career choice, Moore aspired to become a professional baseball player. However, following an injury in college, he kissed her goodbye.
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In college, Moore showcased her athletic body, using modeling to pay her bills. When it was clear he had no future as an athlete, Moore moved to Los Angeles and began a career in acting.
Almost immediately, and to his surprise, his friends and family never bet on him to become an actor. Moore landed the role of Malcolm Winters on the CBS soap opera “The Young and the Restless,” which became his breakthrough.
In his second year playing the role, Moore received an Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Drama Series. He went on to win 8 awards, including an Emmy in 2000 for Leading Role in a Drama Series.
On the hit CBS show, Moore guest-starred on other shows and made her big-screen debut in Hav Plenty (1998). In 2000, he starred in the romantic comedy The Brother with Morris Chestnut and Bill Bellamy.
Between 2002 and 2003, Moore played the lead role of Jesse Reese in Birds of Prey.
It was right after leaving “The Young and Intrepid,” Moore landed the role of Derek Morgan in Criminal Minds, which would become one of his most notable projects. For this role, Moore won an Image Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series.
Moore’s consistency on the small screen gives him little to no time to spend in blockbusters, however, he was rewarded for two feature films, including his role in Tyler Perry’s The Diary of a Mad Black Woman, for which he was nominated for the Image Awards for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture.
In 2016, Shemar starred in “The Bounce Back” which was his debut as a producer and director. He portrayed Victor Stone/Cyborg in the Justice League movie and its sequels, a comic book superhero-made movie featuring comic books.
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Moore is also a model, signed to New York City’s DNA Model Management.
Net worth of Shemar Moore – $16 million
Thanks hugely to two long-running TV shows, Moore was able to earn an estimated net worth of $16 million. According to reports, he received a salary of $175,000 per episode for his role in Criminal Minds.
Shemar Moore Wife/Children/Girlfriend
As expected of a handsome and handsome man like Moore, he’s “dated a lot of women,” which he revealed in 2016 as he refuted rumors that he was gay.
He met big names such as Toni Braxton (1994-1995), Halle Berry (1997-1998), Ashley Scott (2002-2003), Kimberly Elise (2004-2005), Lauriane Gilliéron (2007), etc.
Amazingly, Moore has never been married and has NO children. However, he revealed on his Instagram page in 2016 that he wanted to get married in two or three years (SEE VIDEO ABOVE).
In fact, he cited focusing on his personal life and marriage for stepping down from his very active role on Criminal Minds…
“I need balance in my life. I love what I do for a living, I love it from ‘Action’ to ‘Cut’, but I also want to walk my dogs, travel, get married, have kids. I want balance, and that’s hard to do with the schedule we have,” the actor told TV Line.
His most recent relationship, at the time of this writing, was with professional football player, Shawna Gordon. The pair started dating in 2015 when Moore bragged about herself saying she was ‘the hottest No. 1 in pro sports… If she stood up and turned around, she was in danger of passing out “. Unfortunately, this flame did not last long. 2016
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Moore still seems to be looking for THE ONE. He seems like a good husband, though… Read what he already said about his mother and his wives;
“Although I have many close friends in my life, my number one is always my mother. Without her, I wouldn’t have the same values and I wouldn’t see the world as I do today. She taught me to appreciate and respect women. She taught me chivalry and how to love a woman and respect her feelings and emotions. “
Shemar Moore Height: 1.85m – 6ft 1in.
Learn more about Moore on his official website. Also catch up on Instagram and Twitter.