Julianne Moore
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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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
The Simpsons
1989 · Consonance (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
Tony Awards
1956 · Nadia Blye (archive fo...
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Self
The View
1997 · Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Self - Guest
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Presenter
The One Show
2006 · Self
30 Rock
2006 · Nancy Donovan
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Self
The Big Lebowski
1998 · Maude Lebowski
The Oscars
1953 · Self
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014 · President Alma Coin
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2002 · Self
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
2016 · Self - Guest
Finding Your Roots
2012 · Self
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011 · Emily
The Apartment
2001 · Self - Guest
Today
1952 · Self
Made in Hollywood
2005 · Self
The Fugitive
1993 · Anne Eastman
Children of Men
2006 · Julian
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
2017 · Poppy
Basketball: A Love Story
2018 · Narrator (voice)
Don Jon
2013 · Esther
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 · President Alma Coin
Eagle Eye
2008 · ARIIA (voice) (uncredi...
Difficult People
2015 · Sarah Nussbaum
Echo Valley
2025 · Kate Garrett
Evolution
2001 · Dr. Allison Reed, CDC
Magnolia
1999 · Linda Partridge
Sirens
2025 · Michaela Kell
Next
2007 · Callie Ferris
Boogie Nights
1997 · Amber Waves
Mary & George
2024 · Mary Villiers
Non-Stop
2014 · Jen Summers
As the World Turns
1956 · Frannie Hughes
Lisey's Story
2021 · Lisey Landon
Seventh Son
2014 · Mother Malkin
The Sharon Osbourne Show
2003
The Hours
2002 · Laura Brown
Carrie
2013 · Margaret White
May December
2023 · Gracie
Billy on the Street
2011 · Self
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1992 · Marlene Craven
Still Alice
2014 · Alice Howland
Body of Evidence
1993 · Sharon Dulaney
Assassins
1995 · Electra
The Mind, Explained
2019 · Self - Narrator
Spirit Untamed
2021 · Aunt Cora (voice)
The Room Next Door
2024 · Ingrid
Blindness
2008 · Doctor's Wife
The Forgotten
2004 · Telly Paretta
Psycho
1998 · Lila Crane
Chloe
2010 · Catherine Stewart
The Debut
2026 · Mona Friedman
Junket Whore
1998 · Self
The Early Show
1999 · Self - Guest
Benny & Joon
1993 · Ruthie
The Woman in the Window
2021 · Jane Russell 1 (Katie)
6 Souls
2010 · Cara Harding
Sharper
2023 · Madeline Phillips
B.L. Stryker
1989
Suburbicon
2017 · Margaret Lodge / Rose
A Single Man
2009 · Charley
I'm Not There
2007 · Alice Fabian
Short Cuts
1993 · Marian Wyman
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
1990 · Susan (segment ‘Lot 24...
Dear Evan Hansen
2021 · Heidi Hansen
Safe
1995 · Carol
Far from Heaven
2002 · Cathy Whitaker
Freedomland
2006 · Brenda Martin
Cast a Deadly Spell
1991 · Connie Stone
Nine Months
1995 · Rebecca Taylor
Maps to the Stars
2014 · Havana Segrand
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009 · Kat
The English Teacher
2013 · Linda Sinclair
When You Finish Saving the World
2023 · Evelyn
Welcome to Hollywood
2000 · Julianne Moore
The End of the Affair
1999 · Sarah Miles
Savage Grace
2007 · Barbara Baekeland
The Kids Are All Right
2010 · Jules
Hannibal
2001 · Clarice M. Starling
What Maisie Knew
2013 · Susanna
Altman
2014 · Self
Laws of Attraction
2004 · Audrey Woods
Gloria Bell
2019 · Gloria Bell
Maggie's Plan
2016 · Georgette Nørgaard
Cry to Heaven
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Bel Canto
2018 · Roxanne Cross
An Ideal Husband
1999 · Mrs. Laura Cheveley
Return to Jurassic Park
2011 · Self
Being Flynn
2012 · Jody Flynn
The Glorias
2020 · Gloria Steinem
Wonderstruck
2017 · Lillian Mayhew / Rose
The Shipping News
2001 · Wavey Prowse
The Ladies Man
2000 · Audrey
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
2005 · Evelyn Ryan
Elektra Luxx
2011 · Virgin Mary
I'll Take Manhattan
1987 · India West
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992 · Elinor
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000 · Self
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
2005 · Julianne Moore
Freeheld
2015 · Laurel Hester
Game Change
2012 · Sarah Palin
After the Wedding
2019 · Theresa
9 Kisses
2014 · Woman in Club
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997 · Self
The Myth of Fingerprints
1997 · Mia
Trust the Man
2005 · Rebecca
Vanya on 42nd Street
1994 · Yelena
Roommates
1995 · Beth
Cookie's Fortune
1999 · Cora Duvall
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007 · Self
The New Yorker at 100
2025 · Self – Narrator (voice...
Alec Baldwin: One Night Only
2017 · Self
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003 · Self - From "Not I"(ar...
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015 · Self - President Alma...
A Map of the World
1999 · Theresa Collins
The Staggering Girl
2019 · Francesca
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Self
Marie and Bruce
2004 · Marie
A Child's Garden of Poetry
2011 · Self - Narrator (voice...
Surviving Picasso
1996 · Dora Maar
With/In Volume 1
2021 · (segment "Intersection...
Power of Women: The Changemakers
2022 · Self
The Beginning of the End of the Affair
2000 · Self
Chicago Cab
1998 · Distraught Woman
Money, Power, Murder.
1989 · Peggy Lynn Brady
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 · Sarah Harding
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001 · Self
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
2016 · Self (President Alma C...
The Last to Go
1991 · Marcy
Creating Carrie
2014 · Self
World Traveler
2002 · Dulcie
Psycho Path
1999 · Self - Actress / Lila...
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993 · Self
Image Book
2023 · Self
Stone Mattress
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