Julie Anne Smith (born December 3, 1960), known professionally as Julianne Moore, 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, Timenamed 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, Moore 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.
Moore's 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, Moore 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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Primarily2025 Untitled Jesse Eisenberg Musical Comedy
2025 Echo Valley as Kate Garrett
2025 Misadventure
2025 Stone Mattress as Verna
2025 Control
2025 Sirens as Michaela Kell
2024 The Room Next Door as Ingrid
2023 May December as Gracie
2023 Sharper as Madeline Phillips Producer
2023 Image Book as Self
2023 When You Finish Saving the World as Evelyn
2022 Power of Women: The Changemakers as Self
2022 With/In Volume 2
2021 Dear Evan Hansen as Heidi Hansen
2021 With/In Volume 1 as (segment "Intersection")
2021 Spirit Untamed as Aunt Cora (voice)
2021 The Woman in the Window as Jane Russell 1 (Katie)
2021 French Water
2020 The Glorias as Gloria Steinem
2019 After the Wedding as Theresa Producer
2019 The Staggering Girl as Francesca
2019 Gloria Bell as Gloria Bell Executive Producer
2018 Bel Canto as Roxanne Cross
2017 Suburbicon as Margaret Lodge / Rose
2017 Wonderstruck as Lillian Mayhew / Rose
2017 Kingsman: The Golden Circle as Poppy
2017 Alec Baldwin: One Night Only as Self
2016 Maggie's Plan as Georgette Nørgaard
2016 Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 as Self (President Alma Coin)
2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as President Alma Coin
2015 Freeheld as Laurel Hester
2015 Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman as Self
2015 The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self (President Alma Coin)
2014 Seventh Son as Mother Malkin
2014 9 Kisses as Woman in Club
2014 Still Alice as Alice Howland
2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as President Alma Coin
2014 Altman as Self
2014 Maps to the Stars as Havana Segrand
2014 Non-Stop as Jen Summers
2014 Creating Carrie as Self
2013 Carrie as Margaret White
2013 Don Jon as Esther
2013 The English Teacher as Linda Sinclair
2013 What Maisie Knew as Susanna
2012 Being Flynn as Jody Flynn
2012 Game Change as Sarah Palin
2011 Crazy, Stupid, Love. as Emily
2011 Florent: Queen of the Meat Market as Herself
2011 A Child's Garden of Poetry as Self - Narrator (voice)
2011 Elektra Luxx as Virgin Mary
2011 Return to Jurassic Park as Self
2010 The Kids Are All Right as Jules
2010 6 Souls as Cara Harding
2010 Chloe as Catherine Stewart
2009 A Single Man as Charley
2009 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee as Kat
2008 Eagle Eye as ARIIA (voice) (uncredited)
2008 Blindness as Doctor's Wife
2007 I'm Not There as Alice Fabian
2007 Savage Grace as Barbara Baekeland
2007 Next as Callie Ferris
2006 Children of Men as Julian
2006 Freedomland as Brenda Martin
2005 The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie as Julianne Moore
2005 The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio as Evelyn Ryan
2005 Trust the Man as Rebecca
2005 The True Story of Hannibal as Self
2004 The Forgotten as Telly Paretta
2004 Laws of Attraction as Audrey Woods
2004 Marie and Bruce as Marie Executive Producer
2002 The Hours as Laura Brown
2002 Far from Heaven as Cathy Whitaker
2002 World Traveler as Dulcie
2001 The Shipping News as Wavey Prowse
2001 Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal as Self
2001 Evolution as Dr. Allison Reed, CDC
2001 Hannibal as Clarice M. Starling
2000 Welcome to Hollywood as Julianne Moore
2000 The Ladies Man as Audrey
2000 Psycho Path as Self - Actress / Lila Crane
2000 Not I as Auditor / Mouth
2000 That Moment: Magnolia Diary as Self
1999 Magnolia as Linda Partridge
1999 The End of the Affair as Sarah Miles
1999 A Map of the World as Theresa Collins
1999 Cookie's Fortune as Cora Duvall
1999 An Ideal Husband as Mrs. Laura Cheveley
1998 Psycho as Lila Crane
1998 Junket Whore as Self
1998 Chicago Cab as Distraught Woman
1998 The Big Lebowski as Maude Lebowski
1997 Boogie Nights as Amber Waves
1997 The Myth of Fingerprints as Mia
1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park as Sarah Harding
1997 The Making of 'The Lost World' as Self
1996 Surviving Picasso as Dora Maar
1995 Assassins as Electra
1995 Nine Months as Rebecca Taylor
1995 Safe as Carol
1995 Roommates as Beth
1994 Vanya on 42nd Street as Yelena
1993 Short Cuts as Marian Wyman
1993 The Fugitive as Anne Eastman
1993 Benny & Joon as Ruthie
1993 Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country as Self
1993 Body of Evidence as Sharon Dulaney
1992 The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag as Elinor
1992 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle as Marlene Craven
1991 Cast a Deadly Spell as Connie Stone
1991 The Last to Go as Marcy
1990 Tales from the Darkside: The Movie as Susan (segment ‘Lot 249’)
1989 Money, Power, Murder. as Peggy Lynn Brady