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Julie Anne Smith (born December 3, 1960), known professionally as Julianne Moore, 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, Timenamed 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, Moore 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. Moore's 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, Moore has written a series of children's books about Freckleface Strawberry. She is married to director Bart Freundlich, with whom she has two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julianne Moore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Julie Anne Smith (born December 3, 1960), known professionally as Julianne Moore, 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, Timenamed 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, Moore 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. Moore's 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, Moore has written a series of children's books about Freckleface Strawberry. She is married to director Bart Freundlich, with whom she has two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julianne Moore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Tony Awards
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Graham Norton Show
The Daily Show
Golden Globe Awards
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Today
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Finding Your Roots
The Early Show
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
30 Rock
The Marriage Ref
Mary & George
Movie 43
Eagle Eye
The Oscars
The Ladies Man
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
Psycho
The Big Lebowski
Cast a Deadly Spell
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Don Jon
Wonderstruck
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Assassins
Boogie Nights
The Mind, Explained
Suburbicon
Hannibal
Carrie
Chloe
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Non-Stop
Seventh Son
May December
A Map of the World
Spirit Untamed
Gloria Bell
Stone Mattress
Sirens
Far from Heaven
Still Alice
The Hours
Lisey's Story
Echo Valley
What Maisie Knew
The Room Next Door
Blindness
Sharper
When You Finish Saving the World
The Glorias
Maps to the Stars
Production Credits
Lisey's Story
Mary & George
Gloria Bell
Sharper
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