Moore is the son of Marilyn Wilson, a business consultant and Sherrod Moore. Moore’s father was African-American and his mother, who was born in the Roxbury neighbourhood of Bostin, Massachusetts, was of Irish and French-Canadian descent.
His mother, who had a degree in mathematics, worked as a teacher in Bahrain and Denmark, He moved with her to Denmark as an infant, and then to Bahrain when he was four, where he attended a British private school until the age of seven.
Returning to the US in 1977, the family moved to Chico, California, where his mother worked at a clinic, before later moving to Palo Alto.
Moore worked as a model during his college years. He is signed to DNA Model Management in New York City. Moore appeared in the March 2009 issue of Men’s Fitness magazine.