Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith; December 3, 1960) is a British-American actress and a children's book author. She has been nominated for four Oscars, six Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Moore began her acting career in 1983 with minor roles, before joining the cast of the soap opera As the World Turns, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1988. She began to appear in supporting roles in films during the early 1990s, in films such as The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and had a very small role as a doctor in The Fugitive. Her performance in Short Cuts (1993) won her and the rest of the cast a Golden Globe for their ensemble performance, and her performance in Boogie Nights (1997) brought her widespread attention and nominations for several major acting awards.

Her success continued with films such as The Big Lebowski (1998), The End of the Affair (1999) and Magnolia (1999). She received particular acclaim for her portrayal of a betrayed wife in Far from Heaven (2002), winning several critic awards as best actress of the year, in addition to several other nominations, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award. The same year, she was also nominated for several awards as best supporting actress for her work in The Hours. In 2010, Moore starred in the comedy drama The Kids Are All Right, for which she received a Golden Globe and a BAFTA nomination.

Early life

Moore was born Julie Anne Smith at Fort Bragg, near Fayetteville, North Carolina.^[1] Her mother, the late Anne McNeil McLean (n e Love), was a psychiatric social worker who emigrated from Greenock, Scotland, and her father, Peter Moore Smith, a New Jersey native, was a military lawyer, judge, helicopter pilot, and army colonel.^[2][3][4][5] She has a younger sister, Valerie, and a younger brother, novelist Peter Moore Smith III.^[6] Growing up as an "army brat", she moved 23 times and attended 9 different schools before she was 18.^[7][8] She lived in several places across the United States and Germany.^[1] Moore attended J.E.B. Stuart High School in Falls Church, Virginia and Frankfurt American High School in Frankfurt, Germany, graduating in 1979.^[1] She received her bachelor's degree at the College of Fine Arts at Boston University in Drama.^[9]

Career

Acting

Moore moved to New York City in 1983, working as a waitress and performing in bit parts before being cast in the dual roles of Frannie Hughes and Sabrina Hughes on the soap opera As the World Turns, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award; she played the roles from 1985 to 1988.^[1] In 1987, she was part of the junior company in the New York premiere of Caryl Churchill's Serious Money at The Public Theater. Because of Screen Actors Guild rules, she had to change her name, since there were already actresses named "Julie Smith" and "Julianne Smith".^[1] She chose her father's middle name, "Moore", but because there was already another actress named "Julie Moore", she finally settled on "Julianne Moore."

Moore at the premiere of Savage Grace, April 2008. Moore began starring in feature films in the early 1990s, mostly appearing in supporting roles in films like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Benny & Joon, and The Fugitive. Her part in 1993's Short Cuts gained her critical acclaim and recognition, and she was cast in several high-profile Hollywood films, including 1995's romantic comedy Nine Months, and 1997's summer blockbuster The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Her first role as the central lead, Carol White, in the well-reviewed independent film Safe also attracted critical attention. The role was called the ancestor of one of Moore's best-praised roles, Cathy Whitaker, in another Haynes film, Far from Heaven.^[1][10] Critics noted the importance of this role in establishing her as an actress to take seriously.^[11] In addition, her performance on Vanya on 42nd Street, a filmed version of Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya, earned her critical recognition, with film critic Kenneth Turan calling her work in the film "a revelation".^[12] For this role, Moore won Best Actress from the Boston Society of Film Critics.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Moore appeared in a series of films that received Oscar recognition, including her roles in Boogie Nights (1997, Best Supporting Actress nomination), The End of the Affair (1999, Best Actress nomination), and her two 2002 films, The Hours (Best Supporting Actress nomination) and Far from Heaven (Best Actress nomination), for which she also won "Best Actress" from no less than 16 critics groups, more than any other actress that year^[13] (see below for a list), and from the Venice Film Festival.^[1] In the Los Angeles Times review of Far From Heaven, critic Manohla Dargis wrote: "The film's three leads are extraordinary, but what Moore does with her role is so beyond the parameters of what we call great acting that it nearly defies categorization."^[14]

During this period, she also appeared in the commercial successes Hannibal (replacing Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling) and The Forgotten, in Paul Thomas Anderson's follow-up to Boogie Nights, Magnolia, for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination and the National Board of Review Award as Best Supporting Actress, and in the Coen brothers cult hit The Big Lebowski. Entertainment Weekly has chosen her one of The 25 Greatest Actresses of the '90s.^[15] In 2003, The Guardian called her "the most talented actress of her generation".^[16]

In November 2006, Moore made her Broadway debut in the world premiere of David Hare's new play The Vertical Hour, directed by Sam Mendes.^[17] 2006 also saw the releasing of three of her films: Freedomland, which opened in February to mixed reviews,^[18] followed by Trust the Man, directed by her husband Bart Freundlich, and the critically acclaimed science fiction feature Children of Men.^[19] The following year she appeared opposite Nicolas Cage and Jessica Biel in Next, a science fiction action film based on The Golden Man, a short story by Philip K. Dick; and the controversial film Savage Grace, the story of a high-society mother and son whose Oedipal relationship ends in tragedy. In 2008, she starred alongside Mark Ruffalo in Blindness, a thriller from director Fernando Meirelles. In her review of the film, Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com called Moore "an apparition of generosity and compassion who seems in danger of disappearing at any moment. Moore takes the movie's stiff, signpost dialogue and delivers it in a way that's consistently believable. [...] She's a miracle worker, and whatever Meirelles paid her, it isn't nearly enough",^[20] while The Austin Chronicle commented that Moore "masterfully characterizes the devoted wife s metamorphosis into a heroicism both unwanted and unheralded. It s a rattling, heartrending performance in, yes, a long, hard slough of a film one that is well worth the journey, if not a repeat trip."^[21]

The next year, Moore appeared opposite Colin Firth in the well-received American drama A Single Man,^[22] for which she received her fifth Golden Globe nomination, with Peter Travers of Rolling Stone calling her performance "explosively good".^[23] When the cancellation of As the World Turns was announced in late 2009, Moore decided to honor the soap that brought her fame and temporarily returned for a few days as Frannie Hughes.^[24] During the 2009 2010 season of 30 Rock, she had a guest role as Nancy Donovan, a love interest for Alec Baldwin's character, Jack Donaghy.^[25]

In 2010, Moore starred in the erotic thriller Chloe, theatrically released by Sony Pictures Classics and had since became director Atom Egoyan's biggest moneymaker ever.^[26] In his review of the film, David Edelstein of the New York magazine called Moore's performance "extraordinarily raw and affecting."^[27] Moore next appeared in the comedy-drama The Kids Are All Right, co-starring Annette Bening and Mark Ruffalo; Moore was instrumental in getting the film made and in getting Bening involved.^[28] The film was both a critical and commercial success,^[29][30] garnering acting and production nominations from the Gotham Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Academy Awards, as well as winning the Golden Globe Award for "Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times commented, "Moore and Bening are superb actors here, evoking a marriage of more than 20 years, and all of its shadings and secrets, idealism and compromise",^[31] and the Los Angeles Times review said, "Moore is fearless" and "plays every note perfectly."^[32] For this role, Moore received her sixth Golden Globe Award nomination and a BAFTA nomination.

In July 2011, Moore appeared in the comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love., co-starring Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling, which was successful commercially and received favorable reviews,^[33] with The Globe and Mail commenting, "some genuinely impressive acting breaks out. The accomplished Moore is an obvious candidate and, even in a confined role, she delivers here a nervous look, there a tender gesture."^[34] In the HBO drama Game Change, Julianne Moore portrayed 2008 vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin. The made-for-television movie earned the cable channel its biggest audience for an in-house production in eight years.^[35] Moore received rave reviews for her "flawless performance"^[36], with the San Francisco Chronicle calling her portrayal of Palin "both complex and entirely credible. Yes, the hair, makeup and costumes contribute mightily to transforming Moore, but the nuance she brings to the performance is simply astounding."^[37]

Altogether, Moore has five upcoming film projects, amongst others the fantasy film The Seventh Son based on the book series The Wardstone Chronicles, co-starring Jeff Bridges, in which Moore will star as the "most dangerous 1700s witch" Mother Malkin.^[38]

Writing

In October 2007, Moore made her literary debut with the publication of Freckleface Strawberry, a children's book illustrated by LeUyen Pham, based on her experiences as a child. In April 2009, Moore and Pham followed up with a second children's book titled Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully.^[39][40]

Personal life

Moore met her first husband, John Gould Rubin, in 1984. They married in 1986, separated in 1994, and divorced in 1995. In 1996, she began a relationship with director Bart Freundlich, whom she wed on August 23, 2003.^[41] The couple had two children prior to their marriage: a son, Caleb (b. December 4, 1997), and a daughter, Liv Helen (b. April 11, 2002). In an interview, Moore said she picked roles in movies that film in the summer so her family can accompany her: "My husband and I are very fortunate, because we have flexible jobs," she says. "If you talk to parents, that's what they're trying to do  have as much flexibility as possible."^[42] She lives with her family in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan. By way of her Scottish ancestry, Moore became a British citizen on July 8, 2011.^[43]

Activism

Politics

Moore is a pro-choice activist^[44][45] and, during the 2004 presidential election, donated $2,000 to John Kerry's presidential campaign.^[46]

Charity work

Since 2002,^[47] she has been involved with the TS Alliance^[48] to raise awareness of tuberous sclerosis and is an Artist Ambassador for Save the Children's programs in the United States. In 2012, Moore joined Moms Clean Air Force^[49], to help call on parents to join in the fight against toxic air pollution.

LGBT advocacy

She actively supports same-sex marriage.^[50]

Filmography

Awards

Other appearances

• On December 11, 2005, Moore and actress Salma Hayek co-hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Norway.
• On November 30, 2006, The Vertical Hour, in which Moore made her Broadway debut, opened on Broadway.

References

External links

• Julianne Moore oldest site of 1998.
• People in Film: Julianne Moore Focus Features
• CBS News interview (September 30, 2005)
• IGN Films interview (April 29, 2004)
• Julianne Moore at Rotten Tomatoes
• Julianne Moore interview for ''The Kids Are All Right''
• Julianne Moore Q&A for theartsdesk.com (July 24, 2010)

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