Julianne Moore

About

Early Life:

Julianne Moore is an American actress. She graduated from Boston University and relocated to New York to pursue a career in acting. Julianne made her debut with a slew of television roles and won a Daytime Emmy Award for playing the roles of half-sisters Frannie and Sabrina in the series As The World Turns. Julianne made her cinematic debut in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, however, it was her role in the thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) that got her critical appreciation.

Career Highlights:

Julianne soon followed it up with three successful critically acclaimed films Short Cuts (1993), Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) and Safe (1995). She then appeared in Nine Months (1995) which introduced her as the leading lady in Hollywood. Her next release, the thriller Assassins (1995) was also a commercial success. Julianne received her first Academy Award nomination for her performance in the critically acclaimed Boogie Nights (1997), consequent to which she appeared in the cult classic The Big Lebowski (1998) and End of the Affair (1999). In 2001, she starred in the film Hannibal, a sequel to the Oscar-winning film The Silence of the Lambs which was a commercial success. Julianne became the ninth performer in history to be nominated for two Academy Awards in the same year after her critically acclaimed performance in the Far from Heaven (2002) and The Hours (2002). Her other notable works include films like Laws of Attraction (2004), Children of Men (2006), Savage Garden (2007), A Single Man (2009).

Julianne returned to television after 18 years and made a guest appearance in the fourth season of 30 Rock. Later in 2010, she starred in the Oscar-nominated comedy-drama The Kids Are All Right. Julianne was cast alongside Liam Neeson in the action-thriller Non-Stop (2014) which was a commercial success. She won The Best Actress Award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the black comedy Maps to the Stars (2014). Her other releases include The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 1 (2014), Still Alice (2014), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (2015) and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017). Her 2021 releases include Spirit Untamed and The Woman In The Window.