Known by his stage name Moby, Richard Melville Hall, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and photographer. He is well known for his electronic music and animal rights activism.  Moby has sold over 20 million albums worldwide, and is considered one of the most important contributor to dance music in the early 1990s.  His electronic dance music work, which experimented with techno, house, breakbeat, downtempo electronica,, and spoke-word layering helped introduce and popularize dance music in both the UK and America with his fifth studio album, Play.  Originally released in mid-1999, the album sold 6,000 copies in its first week, and it re-entered the charts in early 2000 and became an unexpected hit, producing eight singles and selling over 10 million copies worldwide.  Moby followed the album with 18 in 2002, to much success, selling over 5 million copies worldwide.   His work spans eleven complete albums, while editing, producing, performing and remixing music for acts such as  Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Daft Punk, Britney Spears, New Order, Public Enemy, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Soundgarden, and others.   Moby is considered by some to be a renaissance man, creating or supporting restaurants, artist collectives, animal activism groups, while writing and photographing for articles and books throughout his career.  He is an advocate for network neutrality, along with other political causes such as art education and anti-violence campaigns.  

Filmography

• 2026Eternal Return — Executive Producer
• 2026Jim Queen and the Quest for Chloroqueer — Executive Producer
• 2026The Incomer — Executive Producer
• 2025Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story — Executive Producer
• 2025Three steps before dawn — Music
• 2024Moby - PLAY 25 - Sportpaleis d'Anvers - ARTE Concert — Self, Songs
• 2024Moby: 25 Years of Play - Sportpaleis Antwerp
• 2023Punk Rock Vegan Movie — Self/The Devil, Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
• 2023Rowdy Girl — Executive Producer
• 2022Found Emulsion — Music
• 2022The Porn Radio Show — Music
• 2022Wild — Music
• 2022Zanni (Proof of Concept) — Music
• 2021It's a Madcap World: The Making of an Unfinished Film — Music
• 2021Moby Doc — Self, Writer
• 2021Moby: Reprise — Moby
• 2019#Powerplant
• 2019Countdown to Year Zero
• 2018Cholet. The work of Freddy Mammani — Music
• 2017Land of Hope and Glory — Music
• 2016Intruder — Vincent
• 2016Tetched — Music
• Blunt Talk — Moby
• 2015The Ever After — Moby
• 2015The Exam — Music
• 2015Unity — Narrator (voice)
• 2014I Want to Believe — Original Music Composer
• Betas — Moby
• The Mindy Project — DJ
• 2011The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom — Music
• 2011Verve — Original Music Composer
• 2010A Man, A Woman, A Genie, A Gun — Music
• 2010Africa Light / Gray Zone — Additional Music
• 2010Waste Land — Music
• 2009Carl Cox 24/7 — Moby
• 2009Child of the Sun — Music
• 2009Pierre in Peril — Music
• 2009Suck — Beef
• 2007Southland Tales — Original Music Composer
• 30 Rock — Moby
• 2006Moby: Go - The Very Best Of Moby
• 2006Moby: Live - Hotel Tour 2005 — Moby
• 2006Pittsburgh
• 2006The Diver — Music
• 2005Earthlings — Music
• 2005I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust — Music
• The Celebrity Apprentice
• 2003Alien Sex Party — Excalibur / Dildo Head, Executive Producer, Original Music Composer
• 2002David Bowie: Live by Request — Caller
• 2001Moby: Play — Himself, Producer, Director
• 1997Double Tap — Original Music Composer
• 1996Joe's Apartment — Club DeeJay
• TFI Friday
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast
• Later... with Jools Holland
• Twin Peaks — Musician
• The South Bank Show
• A Continuous Goodbye — Music
• Lonesome — Music
• Manchester Gothic ‘The Slaughterhouse’ — Music
• Mondo — Music
• Tecie — Screenplay, Original Music Composer, Producer
• The Making of 'Jesus Diabetes' — Producer

Appearances as themselves (66)

• 2026Something Divine — Self
• 2025DIY: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Punk — Self
• Confluence — Self
• Way Out West — Self
• 2021All the Streets Are Silent: The Convergence of Hip Hop and Skateboarding (1987-1997) — Self
• 2021Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage — Self
• 2020Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert — Self
• 2020Endgame 2050 — Self
• 2018AWGE DVD: Volume 3 — Self
• 2018Once in a Lifetime Sessions with Moby — Self
• 2017Everybody Has an Andy Dick Story — Self
• 2017Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web — Self
• Monochrome: Black, White & Blue — Self
• 2017The Public Image Is Rotten — Himself
• A Little of Your Time with Quinn Marcus — Himself
• Animals. — Self
• 2016David Blaine: Beyond Magic — Self
• Soundbreaking — Self
• 2016The Music of David Lynch — Self
• 2016Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present — Himself
• 2016Vegan: Everyday Stories — Self
• 2015Jean-Michel Jarre: A Journey into Sound — Self
• 2015Neil Young - Haskell Wexler - Teatro Session — Self
• 2015Rammstein in Amerika — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Musical Guest
• 2014Blonde Superfreak Steals the Magic Brain — Self
• 2014Moby: Almost Home - Live at the Fonda, LA — himself
• Acting Disruptive — Self
• 2013Terms and Conditions May Apply — Self
• 2011Adventures in Plymptoons! — Self
• 2011Electric Daisy Carnival Experience — Self
• 2011Limelight — Himself
• My Favorite Place — Self
• 2011PressPausePlay — Self
• Live from Studio Five — Self
• 2009Moby : Main Square Festival — Himself
• 2009Moby : Wait for me — Himself
• RuPaul's Drag Race — Self - Special Guest
• 2009Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles — Self
• I Love the New Millennium — Self
• 2006American Hardcore — Self
• 2006Moby: Go - A Film About Moby — Himself
• 2006Motherfucker: A Movie — Self
• 2006Not a Photograph: The Mission of Burma Story — Self
• 2005Ten Years Later — Himself
• The Friday Night Project — Self
• 2005The Making of 'Heat' — Self
• 2003Moby: 18 — Himself
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• Sendung ohne Namen — himself
• Aeschbacher — Self
• 2001All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live! — Self
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self
• Star Academy — Self
• The Andy Dick Show — Self
• Abendschau — Self
• 2000M6 awards 2000 — Self
• 1999Better Living Through Circuitry — Self
• Rove — Self
• 1998Modulations — Self
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• The Frank Skinner Show — Self
• 1994Truth or Dairy — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Musical Guest
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Musical Guest