Julianne Moore is an American actress who made her acting debut on television in 1984 in the mystery series The Edge of Night . [1] The following year she made her first appearance in the soap opera As the World Turns , which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Ingenue in a Drama Series in 1988. [2] [3] Following roles in television films, Moore had her breakthrough in Robert Altman's drama film Short Cuts (1993). Her performance garnered critical acclaim as well as notoriety for a monologue her character delivers while nude below the waist. [4] [5] [6] [7] She played lead roles in 1995 in Todd Haynes' drama Safe and the romantic comedy Nine Months . In 1997, Moore portrayed a veteran pornographic actress in Paul Thomas Anderson's drama film Boogie Nights , which earned her her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. [8] She also appeared in Steven Spielberg's adventure sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park —Moore's biggest commercial success to that point. [9] Two years later, she played a wartime adulteress in The End of the Affair , for which she received her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. [10] [11]
In 2001, Moore portrayed the fictional character Clarice Starling in the crime thriller sequel Hannibal , and appeared as a scientist in the science fiction comedy Evolution . The following year, she re-teamed with Todd Haynes on the drama Far from Heaven and starred in the Stephen Daldry-directed drama The Hours , playing a troubled 1950s suburban housewife in both films. [12] [13] She was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for the former and the Silver Bear for Best Actress for the latter, [14] [15] and also received Academy Award nominations for both Best Actress (Far From Heaven) and Best Supporting Actress (The Hours). [16] In 2006, Moore starred in the crime drama Freedomland and Alfonso Cuarón's science fiction thriller Children of Men . She went on to play the socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland in Savage Grace (2007) and appeared opposite Colin Firth in the drama A Single Man (2009). [17]
Moore portrayed politician Sarah Palin in the 2012 political television drama Game Change , for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. [18] She found significant success in 2014 starring as an ageing actress in the satire Maps to the Stars , which won her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and as a linguistics professor with early-onset Alzheimer's disease in the drama Still Alice , for which she received the Best Actress Oscar. [19] [20] [21] Moore also appeared in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 , which earned over $755 million to emerge as her highest-grossing release. [9] In 2017 Moore played a villainous entrepreneur in the highly successful spy film Kingsman: The Golden Circle . [22] [23]
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year(s) | Title | Role(s) | Notes | Ref. |
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1984 | The Edge of Night | Carmen Engler | 7 episodes | [87] [88] |
1985–1988; 2010 | As the World Turns | Frannie Hughes Sabrina Hughes | [2] [87] [89] | |
1987 | I'll Take Manhattan | India West | Miniseries | [90] |
1989 | Money, Power, Murder | Peggy Lynn Brady | Television film | [91] [92] |
1990 | B.L. Stryker | Tina | Episode: "High Rise" | [93] |
1991 | The Last to Go | Marcy | Television film | [30] [94] [95] |
Cast a Deadly Spell | Connie Stone | [96] | ||
1998 | Saturday Night Live | Host | Episode: "Julianne Moore / Backstreet Boys" | [97] |
2004 | Sesame Street | Herself | 2 episodes | [98] |
2009–2013 | 30 Rock | Nancy Donovan | 6 episodes | [25] |
2012 | Game Change | Sarah Palin | Television film | [99] |
2016 | Inside Amy Schumer | Herself | Episode: "Brave" | [100] |
Difficult People | Sarah Nussbaum | Episode: "High Alert" | [101] | |
2017 | Nightcap | Herself | Episode: "Single White Staci" | [102] |
2021 | Lisey's Story | Lisey Landon | Lead role, Miniseries | [103] |
2024 | Mary & George | Mary Villiers | [104] | |
TBA | Sirens † | Michaela Kell | [105] |
Year(s) | Title | Role(s) | Notes | Ref. |
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1997 | Chaos Island: The Lost World | Sarah Harding (voice) | Based on the movie The Lost World: Jurassic Park | [106] |