Actress Carrie-Anne Moss knows a thing or two about hard work. Known for her breakthrough performance as Trinity in “The Matrix,” in 1999, the Vancouver, British Columbia, native spent her early years as a waitress, memorizing orders instead of lines. “I have a pretty strong work ethic. When I was 17 I had three waitress jobs at once,” Moss said. This work ethic has crossed over into her acting career and has helped her to endure near back-to-back filming of “The Matrix,” “Red Planet,” and “The Crew.” Moss can be seen in Miramax’s “Chocolat,” which has been showered with critical acclaim and has garnered four Golden Globe nominations, including a nod for Best Picture. The film, about a woman who moves into a town and later captivates its residents with her very intriguing chocolate-making ability, also stars Johnny Depp and Academy Award winners Juliette Binoche and Judi Dench. Moss felt her involvement in the film was truly a profound experience and played to her childhood dream of becoming an actress.”It’s like a dream come true,” Moss said, “I have always dreamed of being in a beautiful movie like this. I am someone who believes in love, dreams, possibility, and change; this movie is about all of those things. As an actor, and even the little girl in me who wanted to become an actress to move people, it means so much to me to be part of a movie that has that possibility.”Moss also credits her positive experience working on “Chocolat” with an amazing cast and director Lasse Hallstrom.”(Hallstrom) is such a brilliant director, but more than that he is such a wonderful person. In his presence, I felt so safe,” she said. Moss felt that the best lesson in making “Chocolat” was that she learned the value of working with people she truly feels a connection with.”You realize that the connection is worth waiting for,” she said. “It’s kind of like love, you have to wait for the right person. It’s worth the wait in your career as well.”While Moss praised her experience on “Chocolat” as being “right up there with ‘The Matrix,’ which was an amazing experience as well,” she said the two are special to her in very different ways.”I knew people would respond to ‘The Matrix.’ There was just a certain energy surrounding it. Despite this, the actual outcome was still a surprise,” she said.Moss is preparing both physically and mentally for the highly anticipated sequel to “The Matrix,” which has a plot that has been shrouded in mystery. She will train for six months prior to the beginning of filming, and will also train through production in order to master the difficult martial arts sequences.After a year of traveling between locations, including the “Chocolat” location in France, Moss’s current endeavor is to take a few months off. “It does get a bit tiring,” she said, “The thing that wore me out about all the movies I made this year was that they were all on location, which is hard because I miss my home.”Despite that, Moss feels she really has nothing to complain about. “I feel very lucky,” she said.