Acting · Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA · Born December 3, 1960
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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as Mona Friedman
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as Alma Coin
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as Self – Narrator (voice)
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as Michaela Kell
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as (segment "Intersection")
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as Lisey Landon
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as Aunt Cora (voice)
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as Jane Russell 1 (Katie)
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MovieThe Glorias
2020
as Gloria Steinem
TVThe Mind, Explained
2019
as Self - Narrator
TVThe Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self - Guest
MovieAfter the Wedding
2019
as Theresa
MovieThe Staggering Girl
2019
as Francesca
MovieGloria Bell
2019
as Gloria Bell
TVBasketball: A Love Story
2018
as Narrator (voice)
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2018
as Roxanne Cross
MovieSuburbicon
2017
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2017
as Lillian Mayhew / Rose
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as Poppy
MovieAlec Baldwin: One Night Only
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as Self
MovieMaggie's Plan
2016
as Georgette Nørgaard
MoviePawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
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as Self (President Alma Coin)
MovieThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
as President Alma Coin
MovieFreeheld
2015
as Laurel Hester
TVThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self
TVDifficult People
2015
as Sarah Nussbaum
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as Self
MovieThe Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
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MovieSeventh Son
2014
as Mother Malkin
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2014
as Alice Howland
MovieThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
as President Alma Coin
MovieAltman
2014
as Self
MovieMaps to the Stars
2014
as Havana Segrand
MovieNon-Stop
2014
as Jen Summers
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
Movie9 Kisses
2014
as Woman in Club
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2014
as Self
MovieCarrie
2013
as Margaret White
MovieDon Jon
2013
as Esther
Find Our Daughter
2013
as Mother
MovieThe English Teacher
2013
as Linda Sinclair
MovieWhat Maisie Knew
2013
as Susanna
TVFinding Your Roots
2012
as Self
MovieBeing Flynn
2012
as Jody Flynn
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2012
as Sarah Palin
TVBilly on the Street
2011
as Self
MovieCrazy, Stupid, Love.
2011
as Emily
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2011
as Self
MovieA Child's Garden of Poetry
2011
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieElektra Luxx
2011
as Virgin Mary
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as Self
MovieThe Kids Are All Right
2010
as Jules
Movie6 Souls
2010
as Cara Harding
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2010
as Self - Panelist
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2010
as Catherine Stewart
MovieA Single Man
2009
as Charley
TVWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
MovieThe Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009
as Kat
MovieEagle Eye
2008
as ARIIA (voice) (uncredited)
MovieBlindness
2008
as Doctor's Wife
MovieI'm Not There
2007
as Alice Fabian
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2007
as Barbara Baekeland
MovieSaturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007
as Self
MovieNext
2007
as Callie Ferris
TVThe Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
TV30 Rock
2006
as Nancy Donovan
MovieChildren of Men
2006
as Julian
TVThe One Show
2006
as Self
MovieFreedomland
2006
as Brenda Martin
MovieThe Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
2005
as Julianne Moore
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2005
as Self
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2005
as Evelyn Ryan
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2005
as Rebecca
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2005
as Self
MovieThe Forgotten
2004
as Telly Paretta
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2004
as Audrey Woods
MovieMarie and Bruce
2004
as Marie
TVThe Sharon Osbourne Show
2003
TVThe Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
MovieCheck the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003
as Self - From "Not I"(archive footage)
TVJimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
MovieThe Hours
2002
as Laura Brown
MovieFar from Heaven
2002
as Cathy Whitaker
TVAnt & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2002
as Self
MovieWorld Traveler
2002
as Dulcie
MovieThe Shipping News
2001
as Wavey Prowse
TVThe Apartment
2001
as Self - Guest
MovieBreaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001
as Self
MovieEvolution
2001
as Dr. Allison Reed, CDC
MovieHannibal
2001
as Clarice M. Starling
MovieWelcome to Hollywood
2000
as Julianne Moore
MovieThe Ladies Man
2000
as Audrey
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2000
as Auditor / Mouth
MovieThe Beginning of the End of the Affair
2000
as Self
MovieThat Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000
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MovieMagnolia
1999
as Linda Partridge
MovieThe End of the Affair
1999
as Sarah Miles
TVThe Early Show
1999
as Self - Guest
MovieA Map of the World
1999
as Theresa Collins
MoviePsycho Path
1999
as Self - Actress / Lila Crane
MovieCookie's Fortune
1999
as Cora Duvall
MovieAn Ideal Husband
1999
as Mrs. Laura Cheveley
MoviePsycho
1998
as Lila Crane
MovieJunket Whore
1998
as Self
MovieChicago Cab
1998
as Distraught Woman
MovieThe Big Lebowski
1998
as Maude Lebowski
MovieBoogie Nights
1997
as Amber Waves
MovieThe Myth of Fingerprints
1997
as Mia
TVThe View
1997
as Self
MovieThe Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
as Sarah Harding
MovieThe Making of 'The Lost World'
1997
as Self
MovieSurviving Picasso
1996
as Dora Maar
TVThe Daily Show
1996
as Self
MovieAssassins
1995
as Electra
MovieNine Months
1995
as Rebecca Taylor
MovieSafe
1995
as Carol
MovieRoommates
1995
as Beth
MovieVanya on 42nd Street
1994
as Yelena
TVInside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
MovieShort Cuts
1993
as Marian Wyman
TVLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
MovieThe Fugitive
1993
as Anne Eastman
MovieBenny & Joon
1993
as Ruthie
MovieLuck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993
as Self
MovieBody of Evidence
1993
as Sharon Dulaney
MovieThe Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992
as Elinor
TVThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
MovieThe Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1992
as Marlene Craven
MovieCast a Deadly Spell
1991
as Connie Stone
MovieThe Last to Go
1991
as Marcy
MovieTales from the Darkside: The Movie
1990
as Susan (segment ‘Lot 249’)
TVThe Simpsons
1989
as Consonance (voice)
MovieMoney, Power, Murder.
1989
as Peggy Lynn Brady
TVB.L. Stryker
1989
TVLIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
TVI'll Take Manhattan
1987
as India West
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
TVSaturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
TVAs the World Turns
1956
as Frannie Hughes
TVTony Awards
1956
as Nadia Blye (archive footage)
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVToday
1952
as Self
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Presenter
Control
MovieStone Mattress
MovieCry to Heaven
Untitled Julianne Moore/Netflix Film
Moonsong: A Life In Seven Verses
