
Julianne Moore
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Biography
Julie Anne Smith (born December 3, 1960), known professionally as Julianne Moore, is an American actress and author. Prolific in film since the early 1990s, she is particularly known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled women in independent films, as well as for her roles in blockbusters. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Emmy Awards.
After studying theater at Boston University, Moore began her career with a series of television roles. From 1985 to 1988, she was a regular in the soap opera As the World Turns, earning a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance. Her film debut was in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990), and she continued to play small roles for the next four years, including in the thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992). Moore first received critical attention with Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), and successive performances in Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) and Safe (1995) continued this acclaim. Starring roles in the blockbusters Nine Months (1995) and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) established her as a Hollywood leading lady.
Moore received considerable recognition in the late 1990s and early 2000s, earning Academy Award nominations for Boogie Nights (1997), The End of the Affair (1999), Far from Heaven (2002) and The Hours (2002). In the first of these, she played a 1970s pornographic actress, while in the other three, she starred as a mid-20th century unhappy housewife. She also had success with the films The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), Hannibal (2001), Children of Men (2006), A Single Man (2009), The Kids Are All Right (2010), and Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011). She won a Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Sarah Palin in the television film Game Change (2012). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of an Alzheimer's patient in Still Alice (2014) and was named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Maps to the Stars (2014). Among her highest-grossing releases are the final two films in the series The Hunger Games and the spy film Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017).
In addition to her acting work, Moore has written a series of children's books about a character named "Freckleface Strawberry". In 2015, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2020, The New York Times named her one of the greatest actors of the 21st century. She is married to director Bart Freundlich, with whom she has two children.
Known For

Saturday Night Live

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Tony Awards

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Graham Norton Show

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Daily Show

Golden Globe Awards

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Today

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Finding Your Roots

The Early Show

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

30 Rock

The Marriage Ref

Movie 43

Eagle Eye

The Oscars

The Fugitive

Return to Jurassic Park

As the World Turns

The Woman in the Window

I'm Not There

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

I'll Take Manhattan

A Child's Garden of Poetry

Money, Power, Murder.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

Children of Men

Magnolia

Boogie Nights

The Big Lebowski

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Wonderstruck

Assassins

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Cast a Deadly Spell

Don Jon

Psycho

May December

A Map of the World

Hannibal

Suburbicon

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Seventh Son

The Mind, Explained

Non-Stop

Chloe

Spirit Untamed

Carrie

Lisey's Story

Blindness

Sirens

When You Finish Saving the World

The Glorias

Stone Mattress

Still Alice

Far from Heaven

Mary & George

The Room Next Door

Gloria Bell

Maps to the Stars

The Hours

Sharper

What Maisie Knew
Production Credits
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