Julianne Moore was born on December 3, 1960 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA. She is an American actress and has been nominated for four Academy Awards.

She studied drama at Boston University's School of Performing Arts, and after a number of stage parts became known for her role in the US television soap As The World Turns (1985-1986).

Julianne has small but noticeable roles in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) and The Fugitive (1993).

She starred in Safe (1995), Nine Months (1995) alongside with Hugh Grant, and Jurassic Park: The Lost World (1997), with Jeff Goldblum.

She received Oscar nominations for her work in Boogie Nights (1997) starred alongside Mark Wahlberg, The End of the Affair (1999). In 2001, she starred opposite Anthony Hopkins in thriller Hannibal.

In 2002 she won Oscar nominations for both The Hours with Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman and the marriage melodrama Far From Heaven starred with Dennis Quaid.

Her later films include the biopic The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio (2005), the end-of-the-world drama Children of Men (2006) with Clive Owen and 2007’s thriller Next starred opposite Nicolas Cage.

Filmography

• Morgan's Summit (2007)
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship (2008)
• Blindness (2008)
• Boone's Lick (2008)
• I'm Not There (2007)
• Savage Grace (2007)
• Next (2007)
• Children of Men (2006)
• Freedomland (2006)
• The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
• Trust the Man (2005)
• The Forgotten (2004)
• Laws of Attraction (2004)
• Marie and Bruce (2004)
• The Hours (2002)
• Far from Heaven (2002)
• The Shipping News (2001)
• World Traveler (2001)
• Evolution (2001)
• Hannibal (2001)
• The Ladies Man (2000)
• Not I (2000)
• Magnolia (1999)
• The End of the Affair (1999)
• A Map of the World (1999)
• An Ideal Husband (1999)
• Cookie's Fortune (1999)
• Psycho (1998)
• "Saturday Night Live" (1 episode, 1998)
• Chicago Cab (1998)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
• Surviving Picasso (1996)
• Assassins (1995)
• Nine Months (1995)
• Safe (1995)
• Roommates (1995)
• Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
• Short Cuts (1993)
• The Fugitive (1993)
• Benny & Joon (1993)
• Body of Evidence (1993)
• The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992)
• The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
• Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
• The Last to Go (1991)
• Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
• "B.L. Stryker" (1 episode, 1990)
• Money, Power, Murder. (1989)
• Laughterhouse II (1988)
• "I'll Take Manhattan" (1987)
• As the World Turns: 30th Anniversary (1986)
• "As the World Turns" (1956)
• "The Edge of Night" (1956)

Awards

• Berlin Film Festival Award Best Actress "The Hours" 2003
• Independent Spirit Awards Best Female Lead "Far From Heaven" 2003
• Chicago Film Critics Awards Best Actress "Far From Heaven" 2002
• Critics Choice Award Best Actress "Far From Heaven" 2002
• Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Awards Best Actress "Far From Heaven" 2002
• Gotham Actor Award 2002
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Actress "Far From Heaven" 2002
• National Board of Review Award Best Actress "Far From Heaven" 2002
• Online Film Critics Society Award Best Actress "Far From Heaven" 2002
• Washington Film Critics Award Best Actress "Far From Heaven" 2002
• Sundance Film Festival Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision 2001
• Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award Best Supporting Actress "Cookie's Fortune" 1999
• National Board of Review Award Best Supporting Actress "Magnolia", "An Ideal Husband", "Cookie's Fortune" and "A Map of the World" 1999
• Florida Film Critics Circle Award Best Supporting Actress "Boogie Nights" 1997
• Golden Satellite Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) "Boogie Nights" 1997
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award Best Supporting Actress "Boogie Nights" 1997
• National Society of Film Critics Award Best Supporting Actress "Boogie Nights" 1997
• Boston Society of Film Critics Award Best Actress "Vanya on 42nd Street" 1994
• Daytime Emmy Outstanding Ingenue in a Drama Series "As the World Turns" 1987 - 88