Julianne Moore
Acting • Born 1960-12-03
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.
Filmography
152 credits
The Big Lebowski
Movie • 1998
Maude Lebowski
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
Movie • 2016
Self (President Alma Coin)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Movie • 1997
Sarah Harding
Magnolia
Movie • 1999
Linda Partridge
The Hours
Movie • 2002
Laura Brown
The Forgotten
Movie • 2004
Telly Paretta
Body of Evidence
Movie • 1993
Sharon Dulaney
Short Cuts
Movie • 1993
Marian Wyman
Next
Movie • 2007
Callie Ferris
I'm Not There
Movie • 2007
Alice Fabian
Far from Heaven
Movie • 2002
Cathy Whitaker
Benny & Joon
Movie • 1993
Ruthie
The End of the Affair
Movie • 1999
Sarah Miles
Savage Grace
Movie • 2007
Barbara Baekeland
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Movie • 2009
Kat
Laws of Attraction
Movie • 2004
Audrey Woods
Boogie Nights
Movie • 1997
Amber Waves
The Fugitive
Movie • 1993
Anne Eastman
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Movie • 1992
Marlene Craven
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Movie • 1990
Susan (segment ‘Lot 249’)
The Shipping News
Movie • 2001
Wavey Prowse
Psycho
Movie • 1998
Lila Crane
An Ideal Husband
Movie • 1999
Mrs. Laura Cheveley
Dear Evan Hansen
Movie • 2021
Heidi Hansen
Nine Months
Movie • 1995
Rebecca Taylor
Blindness
Movie • 2008
Doctor's Wife
Cookie's Fortune
Movie • 1999
Cora Duvall
Vanya on 42nd Street
Movie • 1994
Yelena
Safe
Movie • 1995
Carol
Hannibal
Movie • 2001
Clarice M. Starling
Marie and Bruce
Movie • 2004
Marie
Freedomland
Movie • 2006
Brenda Martin
Eagle Eye
Movie • 2008
ARIIA (voice) (uncredited)
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Movie • 2005
Evelyn Ryan
Evolution
Movie • 2001
Dr. Allison Reed, CDC
Assassins
Movie • 1995
Electra
Children of Men
Movie • 2006
Julian
Echo Valley
Movie • 2025
Kate Garrett
A Single Man
Movie • 2009
Charley
Chloe
Movie • 2010
Catherine Stewart
6 Souls
Movie • 2010
Cara Harding
Trust the Man
Movie • 2005
Rebecca
Surviving Picasso
Movie • 1996
Dora Maar
The Kids Are All Right
Movie • 2010
Jules
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
Movie • 1992
Elinor
Seventh Son
Movie • 2014
Mother Malkin
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Movie • 2011
Emily
Cast a Deadly Spell
Movie • 1991
Connie Stone
Game Change
Movie • 2012
Sarah Palin
A Map of the World
Movie • 1999
Theresa Collins
Elektra Luxx
Movie • 2011
Virgin Mary
Being Flynn
Movie • 2012
Jody Flynn
World Traveler
Movie • 2002
Dulcie
The Myth of Fingerprints
Movie • 1997
Mia
Not I
Movie • 2000
Auditor / Mouth
What Maisie Knew
Movie • 2013
Susanna
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Movie • 2014
President Alma Coin
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Movie • 2015
President Alma Coin
Chicago Cab
Movie • 1998
Distraught Woman
Maps to the Stars
Movie • 2014
Havana Segrand
Carrie
Movie • 2013
Margaret White
Don Jon
Movie • 2013
Esther
Money, Power, Murder.
Movie • 1989
Peggy Lynn Brady
The English Teacher
Movie • 2013
Linda Sinclair
Florent: Queen of the Meat Market
Movie • 2011
Self
Non-Stop
Movie • 2014
Jen Summers
Power of Women: The Changemakers
Movie • 2022
Self
Still Alice
Movie • 2014
Alice Howland
Image Book
Movie • 2023
Self
Roommates
Movie • 1995
Beth
The Last to Go
Movie • 1991
Marcy
A Child's Garden of Poetry
Movie • 2011
Self - Narrator (voice)
Freeheld
Movie • 2015
Laurel Hester
Altman
Movie • 2014
Self
Maggie's Plan
Movie • 2016
Georgette Nørgaard
With/In Volume 2
Movie • 2022
The Room Next Door
Movie • 2024
Ingrid
Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman
Movie • 2015
Self
Control
Movie
The Ladies Man
Movie • 2000
Audrey
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Movie • 2017
Poppy
Wonderstruck
Movie • 2017
Lillian Mayhew / Rose
Junket Whore
Movie • 1998
Self
Suburbicon
Movie • 2017
Margaret Lodge / Rose
Psycho Path
Movie • 2000
Self - Actress / Lila Crane
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
Movie • 2005
Julianne Moore
Welcome to Hollywood
Movie • 2000
Julianne Moore
Alec Baldwin: One Night Only
Movie • 2017
Self
Gloria Bell
Movie • 2019
Gloria Bell
Creating Carrie
Movie • 2014
Self
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
Movie • 2000
Self
The Glorias
Movie • 2020
Gloria Steinem
Bel Canto
Movie • 2018
Roxanne Cross
After the Wedding
Movie • 2019
Theresa
The Woman in the Window
Movie • 2021
Jane Russell 1 (Katie)
The Staggering Girl
Movie • 2019
Francesca
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Movie • 1993
Self
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Movie • 2015
Self - President Alma Coin
The Making of 'The Lost World'
Movie • 1997
Self
When You Finish Saving the World
Movie • 2023
Evelyn
Sharper
Movie • 2023
Madeline Phillips
The True Story of Hannibal
Movie • 2005
Self
Return to Jurassic Park
Movie • 2011
Self
Spirit Untamed
Movie • 2021
Aunt Cora (voice)
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Movie • 2001
Self
May December
Movie • 2023
Gracie
With/In Volume 1
Movie • 2021
(segment "Intersection")
No One Cares
Movie
Misadventure
Movie
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
Movie • 2007
Self
The New Yorker at 100
Movie • 2025
Self – Narrator (voice)
Find Our Daughter
Movie • 2013
Mother
9 Kisses
Movie • 2014
Woman in Club
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
Today
TV • 1952
Self
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Sharon Osbourne Show
TV • 2003
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
TV • 2002
Self
The Early Show
TV • 1999
Self - Guest
Finding Your Roots
TV • 2012
Self
30 Rock
TV • 2006
Nancy Donovan
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
The Marriage Ref
TV • 2010
Self - Panelist
I'll Take Manhattan
TV • 1987
India West
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Basketball: A Love Story
TV • 2018
Narrator (voice)
B.L. Stryker
TV • 1989
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
The Mind, Explained
TV • 2019
Self - Narrator
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
As the World Turns
TV • 1956
Frannie Hughes
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self - Guest
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
Mary & George
TV • 2024
Mary Villiers
Billy on the Street
TV • 2011
Self
Lisey's Story
TV • 2021
Lisey Landon
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Sirens
TV • 2025
Michaela Kell
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
The Apartment
TV • 2001
Self - Guest
Difficult People
TV • 2015
Sarah Nussbaum
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
Made in Hollywood
TV • 2005
Self
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Consonance (voice)