Juanita Moore (born October 19 1922 in Los Angeles, California) is an African American actress.

Moore had a number of bit parts and supporting roles in motion pictures through the 1950s and 1960s. Her most famous role was as housekeeper Annie Johnson in the 1959 color remake of Imitation of Life. Moore's portrayal of the broken-hearted Annie, whose daughter Sarah Jane (played by Susan Kohner) passes for white, won her a nomination for the 1960 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Kohner won a nomination for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar as well.

Moore was the fourth African American to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category, and the third in the Supporting Actress category.

After a 25-year hiatus, Moore returned to acting in 2000 in The Kid.

African American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early 50's, a time in which few black people were ever given an opportunity to act with major studio films. Fortunately Moore's roles began improving as Hollywood developed a social consciousness toward the end of the decade. In 1959 she received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Imitation of Life (1959), a glossy updating of a once controversial Fannie Hurst novel about racism. Within the next decade Hollywood underwent several sociological upheavals, and Juanita Moore was one of the beneficiaries. She became a fixture of such black oriented films of the 70's as Up Tight! (1969), Thomasine and Bushrod (1974) and Abby (1974). She recently appeared in Disney's The Kid (2000). Moore is semi retired. She has also been in over 30 other motion pictures.