JULIANNE MOORE BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
  
Julianne Moore was born on December 3rd, 1960 in Fayetteville, North Carolina with the birth name Julie Anne Smith.  Her father, Peter Moore Smith, worked as a military judge, therefore the family moved a total of twenty three times and she attended nine different schools growing up.  She had one younger sister and one younger brother and her mother, Anne McNeil McLean worked as a psychiatric social worker. 
 
After graduating from Frankfurt American High School in Germany, she went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Performing Arts in 1983 at Boston university.  Moore then relocated to New York and began working as a stage actress in such productions as, "Serious Money", "Ice Cream With Hot Fudge" and "Hamlet".
 
She soon made her way into television work appearing on, "The Edge of Night" (1956), "As the World Turns" from 1985 through 1988 and such television movies as, "Money, Power, Murder" (1989), "The Last to Go" (1991) and "Cast a Deadly Spell" (1991).
 
Along with television and stage work she finally broke into the film industry appearing in such features as, "Tales from the Darkside: The Movie" (1990), "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle" (1992), "The Fugitive" (1993) starring Harrison Ford, "Short Cuts" (1993), "Jurassic Park" (1993), "Vanya on 42nd Street" (1994), "Safe" (1995), "Nine Months" (1995), "Assassins" (1995), "Surviving Picasso" (1996), "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" (1997) and "Boogie Nights" (1997) for which she received both a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for her performance.
 
Finally, Moore had really begun to make a name for herself in the film industry and had proved to Hollywood that she was quite a talented actress.  She remained working in more successful films such as, "Cookie's Fortune" (1999), "An Ideal Husband" (1999), "Magnolia" (1999), "A Map of the World" (1999), "Far from Heaven" (2002), "Freedomland" (2006), "Next" (2007), "Blindness" (2008) and "A Single Man" (2009) for which she received her fifth Golden Globe nomination. 
 
Over the course of her career in the industry she has been nominated for a total of four Oscars, six Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTA's and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards.
 
In 2006 she returned to stage acting making her Broadway debut in a production of, "The Vertical Hour".  More recently, Moore has graced the silver screen in such films as, "Chloe" (2010), "The Kids Are All Right" (2010), "Crazy, Stupid, Love" (2011) and soon to release in 2012, "Being Flynn", "The English Teacher", "What Maisie Knew", "Nicholas North" and "The Seventh Son".
 
In addition to her acting career she is also a well known published author for children's books such as, "Freckleface Strawberry" and "the Dodgeball Bully".   
 
Moore is currently married to her second husband, Bart Freundlich whom she wed in 2003 and together they have two children.  She was married once before to John Gould Rubin in 1986 and they stayed together until 1995.
 
Julianne Moore resides in Manhattan and remains working in the industry.  She also devotes a lot of her time to politics.  She is vocal about her pro-choice beliefs and supports same-sex marriages.  She is also involved in supporting a number of charities such as the TS Alliance and the Moms Clean Air Force.  

 
Filmography

2013   The Seventh Son 

2011   Nicholas North

2012   What Maisie Knew

2012   The English Teacher

2012   Being Flynn 

2012   Game Change 

2011   Crazy, Stupid, Love  

2011   A Child's Garden of Poetry

2009-2010  30 Rock

2010   Elektra Luxx 

2010   The Kids Are All Right 

2010   Shelter 

2009   Chloe

2009   A Single Man

2009   The Ballad of G.I. Joe

2009   The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

2008   Eagle Eye 

2008   Blindness 

2007   I'm Not There  

2007   Savage Grace 

2007   Next 

2006   Children of Men

2006   Freedomland

2005   The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

2005   Trust the Man

2004   The Forgotten 

2004   Laws of Attraction

2004   Marie and Bruce

2002   The Hours 

2002   Far from Heaven 

2001   The Shipping News

2001   World Traveler

2001   Evolution 

2001   Hannibal 

2000   The Ladies Man

2000   Not I

1999   Magnolia 

1999   The End of the Affair 

1999   A Map of the World 

1999   An Ideal Husband

1999   Cookie's Fortune

1998   Psycho

1998   The Big Lebowski

1997   Chicago Cab 

1997   Boogie Nights 

1997   The Myth of Fingerprints 

1997   The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Chaos Island 

1997   The Lost World: Jurassic Park

1996   Surviving Picasso

1995   Assassins

1995   Nine Months

1995   Roommates 

1995   Safe 

1994   Vanya on 42nd Street

1993   Short Cuts 

1993   The Fugitive

1993   Benny & Joon

1993   Body of Evidence 

1992   The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

1992   The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

1991   Cast a Deadly Spell 

1991   The Last to Go 

1990   Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

1990   B.L. Stryke

1989   Money, Power, Murder.

1985-1987  As the World Turns

1987   I'll Take Manhattan

1984   The Edge of Night