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Julianne Moore Profile |
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Birth Date: December 3, 1960
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Birth Place: Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Birth Name: Julie Anne Smith
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Height: 5'5"
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Biography |
Julianne Moore was born on December 3,
1960, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The daughter of a
social psychiatrist and a military judge, young Julianne
lived the nomadic lifestyle that often characterizes army
families, and called nearly two dozen places home throughout
her formative years.
Abrupt moves between such distinct locales as Panama,
Germany and Alaska made for a childhood of perpetual
transition, but one static element in Julianne's life was
her passion for acting. A love of reading instilled in her a
sense of fiction, and being raised by a psychiatrist and a
judge gave her a window into the world of emotional drama.
Theater clubs and school productions were a constant for
Julianne, regardless of location, and by the time she
graduated from high school, she had settled upon pursuing an
acting career.
Julianne's parents initially balked at the notion of her
entering the insecure acting job market, but a compromise
was reached whereby she would attend university, majoring in
drama but benefiting from a well-rounded education. By 1983,
Julianne had fulfilled her part of the bargain, receiving
her B.F.A. from Boston University's School of the Performing
Arts. Still intent on becoming a professional actor,
Julianne moved to New York City to seek work. It didn't take
her long to find it, and she was soon appearing in a number
of off-Broadway theater productions.
In 1984, Julianne landed her first television gig on the
series The Edge of the Night, and shortly thereafter won a
regular role on the daytime soap As the World Turns, which
proved to be a turning point in the careers of fellow
thespians like Martin Sheen, Courteney Cox and Lauryn Hill
-- and the case was no different for Julianne. In 1988, she
was awarded a Daytime Emmy for her work on As the World
Turns, and her visibility as an actor was upped
considerably.
After a three-year stint, Julianne left the soap opera
world, seeking to extend her resume to the big screen. Her
first few movie roles -- in Slaughterhouse II (1988), Tales
from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) and the Madonna vehicle
Body of Evidence (1992) -- were forgettable. A bit role in
the 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle garnered
Julianne some attention, but it wasn't until the next year
that she really broke out on the big screen with two
significant performances.
Her role as a suspicious doctor in The Fugitive -- albeit a
small one -- caught a number of eyes, among them those of
Steven Spielberg, who was sufficiently impressed with
Julianne to cast her in The Lost World: Jurassic Park
(released in 1997) without an audition.
A second part, in Robert Altman's 1993 film Short Cuts, and
one monologue in particular, would prove to be particularly
memorable. In conjunction, these two roles established
Julianne as an actress of great depth and range, and the job
offers began to pour in.
The combination of a driven work ethic and a plethora of
casting calls would make Julianne one of the hardest-working
actors of the '90s. Between 1990 and 2000, she appeared in
24 different films, tying her for 11th place on the list for
the decade with Robert De Niro.
In spite of the opportunity for career blunders that taking
on such a large number of roles invited, Julianne's
performances and the films that framed them were often
critically acclaimed. In 1994, Julianne received the Boston
Society of Film Critics award for Best Actress for her work
in Vanya on 42nd Street. Her rendition of the character
Amber Waves in 1997's Boogie Nights won her Supporting
Actress awards from both the Los Angeles and the National
Film Critics' Associations, as well as a Golden Satellite
Award and an Academy Award nomination.
In 1999, she was rewarded with the National Board of
Review's Best Supporting Actress Award for her parts in
Magnolia, An Ideal Husband and A Map of the World. She
received a second Oscar nomination for 1999's The End of the
Affair, and garnered further respect for her roles in Gus
Van Sant's remake of the classic Hitchcock thriller Psycho
(1998), Hannibal (2001) and The Shipping News (2001). She
also showed her comedic versatility in a cameo in The Ladies
Man (2000) and the ill-fated Evolution (2001).
In 2002, Julianne appeared in Far from Heaven and The Hours
with Nicole Kidman, while in 2004, she had roles in Marie
and Bruce, Laws of Attraction, and the forgettable The
Forgotten.
In 2005, she will be adding The Prize Winner of Defiance
Ohio, Savage Grace and Trust the Man to her resume. She even
has projects lined up through to 2006, like Freedomland and
Next.
In 1997, while working on the film The Myth of Fingerprints,
Julianne began seeing writer-director Bart Freundlich. Soon
thereafter, over the course of 37 hours of labor that
spanned Julianne's birthday, she gave birth to the couple's
first child, Cal. In 2002, the couple welcomed their
daughter, Liv Helen, into the world. While Julianne had
already been married twice before, she is still happily
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Other
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Son, Cal (b. 4 December 1997). Father is Bart Freundlich.
Her father was a judge in the Army's Judge Advocate General
Corps and her mother was a psychiatric social worker.
Graduated from Boston University's School of the Arts.
Moved into $900,000 3-bedroom loft in Greenwich Village.
[November 1999]
Worked briefly as part-time waitress in Boston, MA.
Is a staunch pro-choice advocate and an active member of
Planned Parenthood.
Born Julie Anne Smith, she had to change her name when she
registered with the Actor's Guild as every variation of her
name seemed to be taken. She then combined her first two
names and assumed her father's middle name as her surname.
Lived in Juneau, Alaska for about a year and a half and
attended school there from 1971-1972.
Was considered for the lead role of Kate McQueen in Fair
Game (1995). The part eventually went to Cindy Crawford.
After Jodie Foster turned down the chance to reprise her
Oscar-winning role of Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001),
several actresses were considered for the part - Moore
triumphed over such contenders as Helen Hunt, Gillian
Anderson and Cate Blanchett.
In order to convincingly portray the role of a housewife
suffering from an immune disorder in Safe (1995), she lost
10 pounds off of her already petite frame.
She reads every script she receives.
Her brother, Peter Moore Smith, is an author and has written
the book "Raveling" for which Julianne Moore has bought the
film rights.
She was on ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY's list of "The 25 Greatest
Actresses of the '90s" (issue date: 11/20/98)
Chosen as one of People Magazine's '50 most beautiful' list
[2001]
Andre Gregory, who directed her onstage in "Uncle Vanya",
said "that she evoked the sensuality and urgency of a young
Joan Crawford, but with more depth, more contradictions."
Louis Malle, who directed her in the 1994 movie version,
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), said "that she made him think
of the greatest of all ravaged beauties, Jeanne Moreau."
Moved into $2.65 Mio duplex penthouse in Greenwich Village
[2002]
Daughter, Liv Helen (b. 11 April 2002). Father is Bart
Freundlich.
Graduated from Frankfurt American High School in Frankfurt,
Germany, in 1979.
She is one of the elite ten thespians to have been nominated
for both a Supporting and a Lead Acting Academy Award in the
same year. In 2003, she was nominated for a Supporting Oscar
for her role in The Hours (2002), and in the Lead category
for her role in Far from Heaven (2002). The other nine are
Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald (he has been
nominated in both categories for the same role in the same
movie), Jessica Lange, Al Pacino, Sigourney Weaver, Emma
Thompson, Holly Hunter, and Jamie Foxx.
She and Joan Cusack played pregnant women in Nine Months
(1995). In 1997, their own sons were born.
Born on the same day as actress Daryl Hannah. She also
shares a birthday with actor Brendan Fraser.
While in college, she auditioned for the prestigious Guthrie
Theater Drama School at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, but continued to pursue her BFA at Boston
instead. A few years later, she performed at the Guthrie
Theater in the Ensamble, production of George Bernard Shaw
"Heartbreak House".
She and her The End of the Affair (1999) co-star Ralph
Fiennes have acted in separate Hannibal Lecter films: she in
Hannibal (2001) and he in Red Dragon (2002).
In Evolution (2001), she works with Ted Levine. Levine
played Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb in The Silence of the Lambs
(1991), who is killed by Clarice Starling, later played by
Moore in Hannibal (2001).
Received triple nominations from the Screen Actors Guild
Awards in both 2000 and 2003.
Late in 2001, she appeared in The Shipping News (2001) with
Scott Glenn. Glenn had played Jack Crawford in The Silence
of the Lambs (1991). Moore appeared in the sequel, Hannibal
(2001).
Appears in Boogie Nights (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998) and
Magnolia (1999) with Philip Seymour Hoffman. Both of them
have played characters in the Hannibal Lecter series. Moore
played Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001), and Hoffman
played Freddie Lounds in Red Dragon (2002).
In the year 2003, when she was nominated for two Oscars, she
was in competition with her co-stars from The Hours (2002);
Nicole Kidman (for The Hours (2002)) and Meryl Streep (for
Adaptation. (2002)).
Appears in The Lost World, the sequel to Jurassic Park, in
which Laura Dern was the heroine. Also appears in Hannibal
(2001), the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs (1991), in
which Jodie Foster preceded her as Clarice Starling. Laura
Dern and Jodie Foster appeared together in _Alice Doesn't
Live Here Anymore (1990)_ . |
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