Julianne Moore
Acting
- Born:
- 1960-12-03
- Place of birth:
- Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
Biography
Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith; December 3, 1960) is an American actress and children's author. Prolific in film since the early 1990s, she is known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled women in independent films and her roles in blockbusters. She has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Emmy Awards. In 2015, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world; in 2020, The New York Times named her one of the greatest actors of the 21st century. After studying theatre at Boston University, she began acting in television. From 1985 to 1988, she was a regular in the soap opera As the World Turns, earning a Daytime Emmy Award. Moore made her breakthrough with Robert Altman's ensemble film Short Cuts (1993), followed by a critically acclaimed performance in Todd Haynes' Safe (1995). Starring roles in the blockbusters Nine Months (1995) and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) established her as a Hollywood leading lady. She received Oscar nominations for her roles in the period films 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 an unhappy mid-20th century housewife. Her career progressed with roles in The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), Hannibal (2001), Children of Men (2006), A Single Man (2009), The Kids Are All Right (2010), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), and Maps to the Stars (2014). She won a Primetime Emmy Award for portraying Sarah Palin in the HBO film Game Change (2012) and the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying an Alzheimer's patient in Still Alice (2014). Her highest-grossing releases came with the final two films in The Hunger Games film series (2014–2015) and the spy film Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017). She has since starred in independent films and streaming projects, including Haynes' May December (2023) drama and the historical drama miniseries Mary & George (2024). In addition to her acting work, she has written a series of children's books about Freckleface Strawberry. She is married to director Bart Freundlich, with whom she has two children.
Known For
Filmography
The Debut
The New Yorker at 100
Echo Valley
Sirens
The Room Next Door
Mary & George
May December
Image Book
Sharper
When You Finish Saving the World
Power of Women: The Changemakers
Dear Evan Hansen
With/In Volume 1
Lisey's Story
Spirit Untamed
The Woman in the Window
The Glorias
Good as New
The Mind, Explained
The Kelly Clarkson Show
After the Wedding
The Staggering Girl
Gloria Bell
Basketball: A Love Story
Bel Canto
Suburbicon
Wonderstruck
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Alec Baldwin: One Night Only
Maggie's Plan
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Freeheld
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Difficult People
Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Seventh Son
Still Alice
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Altman
Maps to the Stars
Non-Stop
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
9 Kisses
Creating Carrie
Carrie
Don Jon
Find Our Daughter
The English Teacher
What Maisie Knew
Finding Your Roots
Being Flynn
Game Change
Billy on the Street
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Florent: Queen of the Meat Market
A Child's Garden of Poetry
Elektra Luxx
Return to Jurassic Park
The Kids Are All Right
6 Souls
The Marriage Ref
Chloe
A Single Man
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Eagle Eye
Blindness
I'm Not There
Savage Grace
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
Next
The Graham Norton Show
30 Rock
Children of Men
The One Show
Freedomland
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
Made in Hollywood
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Trust the Man
The True Story of Hannibal
The Forgotten
Laws of Attraction
Marie and Bruce
The End of the Affair: "Making of"
The Sharon Osbourne Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Far from Heaven: "Making of"
The Hours
Far from Heaven
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
World Traveler
The Shipping News
The Apartment
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Evolution
Hannibal
The Ladies Man
Not I
The Beginning of the End of the Affair
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
Magnolia
The End of the Affair
The Early Show
A Map of the World
Psycho Path
Cookie's Fortune
An Ideal Husband
Psycho
Junket Whore
Chicago Cab
The Big Lebowski
Boogie Nights
The Myth of Fingerprints
The View
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The Making of 'The Lost World'
Surviving Picasso
The Daily Show
Assassins
Nine Months
Safe
Roommates
Vanya on 42nd Street
Inside the Actors Studio
Short Cuts
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Fugitive
Benny & Joon
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Body of Evidence
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Cast a Deadly Spell
The Last to Go
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
The Simpsons
Money, Power, Murder.
B.L. Stryker
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
I'll Take Manhattan
Goldene Kamera
Saturday Night Live
As the World Turns
The Edge of Night
Tony Awards
The Oscars
Today
Golden Globe Awards
Control
Stone Mattress
Cry to Heaven
Untitled Julianne Moore/Netflix Film
Moonsong: A Life In Seven Verses
The Joy of Sex