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Julianne Moore

Short Bio

Julianne Moore was born at Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA Julianne is (50) old and her birth sign is Sagittarius

Birth name
Julie Anne Smith
Nickname
Juli
Height
5' 5" (1.65 m)
Mini biography
The daughter of a military judge and a Scottish social worker, Julianne Moore was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina on December 3, 1960. She spent the early years of her life in over two dozen locations around the world with her parents before she finally found her place at Boston University, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree in acting from the School of the Performing Arts. After graduation (in 1983), Julianne moved to New York and worked extensively in theater, including appearances off-Broadway in two Caryl Churchill plays, Serious Money and Ice Cream With Hot Fudge and as Ophelia in Hamlet at The Guthrie Theatre. But despite her formal training, Julianne fell into the attractive actress' trap of the mid-1980's: TV soaps and miniseries. She appeared briefly in the daytime serial "Edge of Night, The" (1956) and from 1985 to 1988 she played two half-sisters Frannie and Sabrina on the soap "As the World Turns" (1956). This performance later led to an Outstanding Ingénue Daytime Emmy Award in 1988. Her subsequent appearances were in mostly forgettable TV-movies, such as Money, Power, Murder. (1989) (TV), Last to Go, The (1991) (TV) and Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) (TV). She made her entrance into the big screen with 1990's Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990), where she played the victim of a mummy. Two years later, Julianne appeared in feature films with supporting parts in Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The (1992) and the comedy Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag, The (1992). She kept winning better and more powerful roles as time went on, including a small but memorable role as Harrison Ford's colleague in Fugitive, The (1993). (A role that made such an impression on Steven Spielberg that he cast her in the Jurassic Park (1993) sequel without an audition in 1997). In one of Moore's most distinguished performances, she recapitulated her "beguiling Yelena" from Andre Gregory's workshop version of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Louis Malle's critically acclaimed Vanya on 42nd Street (1994). Director Todd Haynes gave Julianne her first opportunity to take on a lead role in Safe (1995). Her portrayal of Carol White, an affluent L.A. housewife who develops an inexplicable allergic reaction to her environment, won critical praise as well as an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Later that year she found her way into romantic comedy, co-starring as Hugh Grant's pregnant girlfriend in Nine Months (1995). Following films included Assassins (1995), where she played an electronics security expert targeted for death (next to Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas) and Surviving Picasso (1996), where she played Dora Maar, one of the numerous lovers of Picasso (portrayed by her hero, Anthony Hopkins). A year later, after co-starring in Spielberg's Lost World: Jurassic Park, The (1997), opposite Jeff Goldblum, a young and unknown director, Paul Thomas Anderson asked Julianne to appear in his movie, Boogie
ights (1997). Despite her misgivings, she finally was won over by the script and her decision to play the role of Amber Waves, a loving porn star who acts as a mother figure to a ragtag crew, proved to be a wise one, since she received both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Julianne started 1998 by playing an erotic artist in Big Lebowski, The (1998), continued with a small role in the social comedy Chicago Cab (1998) and ended with a subtle performance in Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho (1960). 1999 had Moore as busy as an actress can be. She starred in a number of high-profile projects, beginning with Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune (1999) , in which she was cast as the mentally challenged but adorable sister of a decidedly unhinged Glenn Close. A portrayal of the scheming Mrs. Cheveley followed in Oliver Parker's Ideal Husband, An (1999) with a number of critics asserting that Moore was the best part of the movie. She then enjoyed another collaboration with director Anderson in Magnolia (1999) and continued with an outstanding performance in End of the Affair, The (1999), for which she garnered another Oscar nomination. She ended 1999 with another great performance, that of a grieving mother in Map of the World, A (1999), opposite Sigourney Weaver.
Spouse
Bart Freundlich (23 August 2003 - present) 2 children
John Gould Rubin (3 May 1986 - 25 August 1995) (divorced)
Sundar Chakravarthy (21 November 1983 - 12 October 1985) (divorced)
Trade mark
Redhead
Trivia
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
5 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 nine 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 Hours, The (2002), and in the Lead category for her role in Far from Heaven (2002). The other seven performers who have received double nominations in the same year are Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson and Holly Hunter.
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.
Personal quotes
"You never have sex the way people do in the movies. You don't do it on the floor, you don't do it standing up, you don't always have all your clothes off, you don't happen to have on all the sexy lingerie. You know, if anybody ever ripped my clothes, I'd kill them."
"In grade school I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three."
"I wish I could say I broke this kicking down the door at Paramount, but I was running after my son." - said at the GLAAD Media Awards in reference to her broken toe and to the producers at Paramount who are allowing Dr. Laura Schlessinger to have a TV show. Schlessinger angered the gay community with her views on homosexuality.
"I was a goody-goody. I was one of those kids who played by the rules. I used to have to take people to the principal's office. Isn't that awful?" - about how she was as a child.
"Only five people got nominated in that category, and that's not very many people. So I did all right." - about losing the 2000 Best Actress Oscar.
I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.
"Now that the FDA has legalized RU-486, it makes us feel that politically the winds are blowing our way. But if someone has a problem with reproductive freedom, I won't even consider voting for them. George W. Bush is anti-choice, and I really believe that should he be elected, we will end up in a really difficult situation." - her views on abortion and reproductive rights, October 2000
"It is the most wonderful experience of
our life. It deepens absolutely everything.You have a greater understanding of things,so in a way it is a gift.For me it has made everthing much better.I'm so happy; I am extremely fortunate." (about her son Caleb and becoming a mother)
"I hesitate to call things companion pieces or to draw comparison between films because I think you reduce the films by doing that."
Salary
Hannibal (2001) $3,000,000
Assassins (1995) $1,000,000
Where are they now
(September 2002) Receives two Best Actress Awards at the Venice Film Festival (by jury and public) for "Far from Heaven"