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Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore

Birthday: 1960-12-03 | Place of Birth: Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2023
2021
With/In Volume 1

as    (segment "Intersection")

2021
Spirit Untamed

as    Aunt Cora (voice)

2021
Dear Evan Hansen

as    Heidi Hansen

2021
The Woman in the Window

as    Jane Russell 1 (Katie)

2021
Lisey's Story

as    Lisey Landon

2020
The Glorias

as    Gloria Steinem

2019
The Staggering Girl

as    Francesca

2019
Gloria Bell

as    Gloria Bell

2019
After the Wedding

as    Theresa

2018
Bel Canto

as    Roxanne Cross

2017
Wonderstruck

as    Lillian Mayhew / Rose

2017
Suburbicon

as    Margaret Lodge / Rose

2017
Kingsman: The Golden Circle

as    Poppy

2016
Maggie's Plan

as    Georgette Nørgaard

2015
Freeheld

as    Laurel Hester

2015
Seventh Son

as    Mother Malkin

2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

as    President Alma Coin

2014
Still Alice

as    Alice Howland

2014
Maps to the Stars

as    Havana Segrand

2014
Non-Stop

as    Jen Summers

2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

as    President Alma Coin

2013
Don Jon

as    Esther

2013
The English Teacher

as    Linda Sinclair

2013
Carrie

as    Margaret White

2013
What Maisie Knew

as    Susanna

2012
Being Flynn

as    Jody Flynn