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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…
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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.
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Julianne Moore's Filmography
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The Debut
as Mona Friedman
The New Yorker at 100
as Self – Narrator (voice)
Echo Valley
as Kate Garrett
The Room Next Door
as Ingrid
May December
as Gracie
Sharper
as Madeline Phillips
Image Book
as Self
When You Finish Saving the World
as Evelyn
Power of Women: The Changemakers
as Self
Dear Evan Hansen
as Heidi Hansen
With/In Volume 1
as (segment "Intersection")
Spirit Untamed
as Aunt Cora (voice)
The Woman in the Window
as Jane Russell 1 (Katie)
The Glorias
as Gloria Steinem
Good as New
After the Wedding
as Theresa
The Staggering Girl
as Francesca
Gloria Bell
as Gloria Bell
Bel Canto
as Roxanne Cross
Suburbicon
as Margaret Lodge / Rose
Wonderstruck
as Lillian Mayhew / Rose
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
as Poppy
Alec Baldwin: One Night Only
as Self
Maggie's Plan
as Georgette Nørgaard
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
as Self (President Alma Coin)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as President Alma Coin
Freeheld
as Laurel Hester
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
as Self - President Alma Coin
No Poster
Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman
as Self
Seventh Son
as Mother Malkin
Still Alice
as Alice Howland
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
as President Alma Coin
Altman
as Self
Maps to the Stars
as Havana Segrand
Non-Stop
as Jen Summers
9 Kisses
as Woman in Club
Creating Carrie
as Self
Carrie
as Margaret White
Don Jon
as Esther
No Poster
Find Our Daughter
as Mother
The English Teacher
as Linda Sinclair
What Maisie Knew
as Susanna
Being Flynn
as Jody Flynn
Game Change
as Sarah Palin
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
as Emily
No Poster
Florent: Queen of the Meat Market
as Self
A Child's Garden of Poetry
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Elektra Luxx
as Virgin Mary
Return to Jurassic Park
as Self
The Kids Are All Right
as Jules
6 Souls
as Cara Harding
Chloe
as Catherine Stewart
A Single Man
as Charley
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
as Kat
Eagle Eye
as ARIIA (voice) (uncredited)
Blindness
as Doctor's Wife
I'm Not There
as Alice Fabian
Savage Grace
as Barbara Baekeland
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
as Self
Next
as Callie Ferris
Children of Men
as Julian
Freedomland
as Brenda Martin
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
as Julianne Moore
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
as Evelyn Ryan
Trust the Man
as Rebecca
No Poster
The True Story of Hannibal
as Self
The Forgotten
as Telly Paretta
Laws of Attraction
as Audrey Woods
Marie and Bruce
as Marie
No Poster
The End of the Affair: "Making of"
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
as Self - From "Not I"(archive footage)
No Poster
Far from Heaven: "Making of"
The Hours
as Laura Brown
Far from Heaven
as Cathy Whitaker
World Traveler
as Dulcie
The Shipping News
as Wavey Prowse
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
as Self
Evolution
as Dr. Allison Reed, CDC
Hannibal
as Clarice M. Starling
Welcome to Hollywood
as Julianne Moore
The Ladies Man
as Audrey
Not I
as Auditor / Mouth
The Beginning of the End of the Affair
as Self
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
as Self
Magnolia
as Linda Partridge
The End of the Affair
as Sarah Miles
A Map of the World
as Theresa Collins
Psycho Path
as Self - Actress / Lila Crane
Cookie's Fortune
as Cora Duvall
An Ideal Husband
as Mrs. Laura Cheveley
Psycho
as Lila Crane
Junket Whore
as Self
Chicago Cab
as Distraught Woman
The Big Lebowski
as Maude Lebowski
Boogie Nights
as Amber Waves
The Myth of Fingerprints
as Mia
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
as Sarah Harding
The Making of 'The Lost World'
as Self
Surviving Picasso
as Dora Maar
Assassins
as Electra
Nine Months
as Rebecca Taylor
Safe
as Carol
Roommates
as Beth
Vanya on 42nd Street
as Yelena
Short Cuts
as Marian Wyman
The Fugitive
as Anne Eastman
Benny & Joon
as Ruthie
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
as Self
Body of Evidence
as Sharon Dulaney
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
as Elinor
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
as Marlene Craven
Cast a Deadly Spell
as Connie Stone
The Last to Go
as Marcy
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
as Susan (segment ‘Lot 249’)
Money, Power, Murder.
as Peggy Lynn Brady
No Poster
The Joy of Sex
as Jane
Cry to Heaven
No Poster
Moonsong: A Life In Seven Verses
No Poster
Untitled Julianne Moore/Netflix Film
No Poster
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