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
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Tony Awards
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Oscars
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Graham Norton 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
Eagle Eye
Movie 43
The Fugitive
Return to Jurassic Park
The Woman in the Window
I'm Not There
As the World Turns
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Money, Power, Murder.
A Child's Garden of Poetry
I'll Take Manhattan
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Children of Men
Magnolia
The Big Lebowski
Psycho
Assassins
Don Jon
Wonderstruck
Cast a Deadly Spell
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Boogie Nights
May December
Suburbicon
Hannibal
The Mind, Explained
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Spirit Untamed
Carrie
A Map of the World
Non-Stop
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Seventh Son
Chloe
Sirens
Mary & George
The Hours
Blindness
Sharper
What Maisie Knew
The Room Next Door
Far from Heaven
Saturday Night Live
Stone Mattress
Still Alice
Lisey's Story
When You Finish Saving the World
Gloria Bell
The Glorias
Maps to the Stars
Production Credits
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