Julianne Moore
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.
Movies (108)
The New Yorker at 100
2025
Echo Valley
2025
The Room Next Door
2024
May December
2023
Image Book
2023
Sharper
2023
When You Finish Saving the World
2023
Power of Women: The Changemakers
2022
Dear Evan Hansen
2021
With/In Volume 1
2021
Spirit Untamed
2021
The Woman in the Window
2021
The Glorias
2020
After the Wedding
2019
The Staggering Girl
2019
Gloria Bell
2019
Bel Canto
2018
Suburbicon
2017
Wonderstruck
2017
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
2017
Alec Baldwin: One Night Only
2017
Maggie's Plan
2016
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
2016
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
Freeheld
2015
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
Seventh Son
2014
Still Alice
2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
Altman
2014
Maps to the Stars
2014
Non-Stop
2014
9 Kisses
2014
Creating Carrie
2014
Carrie
2013
Don Jon
2013
The English Teacher
2013
What Maisie Knew
2013
Being Flynn
2012
Game Change
2012
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011
A Child's Garden of Poetry
2011
Elektra Luxx
2011
Return to Jurassic Park
2011
The Kids Are All Right
2010
6 Souls
2010
Chloe
2010
A Single Man
2009
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009
Eagle Eye
2008
Blindness
2008
I'm Not There
2007
Savage Grace
2007
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007
Next
2007
Children of Men
2006
Freedomland
2006
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
2005
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
2005
Trust the Man
2005
The Forgotten
2004
Laws of Attraction
2004
Marie and Bruce
2004
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003
The Hours
2002
Far from Heaven
2002
World Traveler
2002
The Shipping News
2001
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001
Evolution
2001
Hannibal
2001
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
The Ladies Man
2000
Psycho Path
2000
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000
Magnolia
1999
The End of the Affair
1999
A Map of the World
1999
Cookie's Fortune
1999
An Ideal Husband
1999
Psycho
1998
Junket Whore
1998
Chicago Cab
1998
The Big Lebowski
1998
Boogie Nights
1997
The Myth of Fingerprints
1997
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997
Surviving Picasso
1996
Assassins
1995
Nine Months
1995
Safe
1995
Roommates
1995
Vanya on 42nd Street
1994
Short Cuts
1993
The Fugitive
1993
Benny & Joon
1993
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993
Body of Evidence
1993
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1992
Cast a Deadly Spell
1991
The Last to Go
1991
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
1990
Money, Power, Murder.
1989
No One Cares
Stone Mattress
Cry to Heaven
TV Shows (38)
Sirens
2025
Mary & George
2024
Lisey's Story
2021
The Mind, Explained
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Basketball: A Love Story
2018
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Difficult People
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Finding Your Roots
2012
Billy on the Street
2011
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Graham Norton Show
2007
30 Rock
2006
The One Show
2006
Made in Hollywood
2005
The Sharon Osbourne Show
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2002
The Apartment
2001
The Early Show
1999
The View
1997
The Daily Show
1996
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Simpsons
1989
B.L. Stryker
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
I'll Take Manhattan
1987
Saturday Night Live
1975
As the World Turns
1956
Tony Awards
1956
The Oscars
1953
Today
1952
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Golden Globe Awards
1944