Julianne Moore life and biography

Julianne Moore is an American actress and a children's book author. Throughout her career, she has been nominated for four Oscars, six Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Moore began her acting career in 1983 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the soap opera As the World Turns, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1988. She began to appear in supporting roles in films during the early 1990s, in films such as The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and The Fugitive. Her performance in Short Cuts (1993) won her and the rest of the cast a Golden Globe for their ensemble performance, and her performance in Boogie Nights (1997) brought her widespread attention and nominations for several major acting awards.

Her success continued with films such as The Big Lebowski (1998), The End of the Affair (1999) and Magnolia (1999). She was acclaimed for her portrayal of a betrayed wife in Far from Heaven (2002), winning several critic awards as best actress of the year, in addition to several other nominations, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award. The same year, she was also nominated for several awards as best supporting actress for her work in The Hours. In 2010, Moore starred in the comedy drama The Kids Are All Right, for which she received a Golden Globe and BAFTA nomination.

In one of Moore's most distinguished performances, she recapitulated her "beguiling Yelena from Andre Gregory's ongoing workshop version of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in the late Louis Malle's critically acclaimed Vanya on 42nd Street" (CelebSite).

Director Todd Haynes gave Moore her first opportunity to take on a lead role in Safe, where she plays a housewife who develops an inexplicable allergic reaction to her existence.

As Hugh Grant's pregnant girlfriend in Nine Months, Moore finds her way into romantic comedy while also starring with Robin Williams--the couple's sweet, but incompetant Russian doctor.

Following films included Assassins where she played an electronics security expert and Surviving Picasso (1996) where she played Dora Maar.

Such was Moore's acting career--a slow but rising career nonetheless. Her career had not sky-rocketed nor suffered from her many pivotal but minor roles in off-beat independent films. However, all would change in 1997.

While her name in Hollywood was well-known, she didn't gain named audience recognition until director Steven Spielberg brought us back to Jurassic Park: The Lost World.

Opposite Jeff Goldblum, Moore plays his paleontologist girlfriend Sarah Harding. Starring in a Spielberg movie was potentially one of her greatest opportunities to rise to superstardom. And when asked to play the lead role without an audition, she eagerly agreed to a very physically challenging performance--hanging from rooftops and such. But Moore was not about to let this opportunity slip away, so she roughed it out.

In 1997, Moore followed her blockbuster movie performance with two more features: The Myth of Fingerprints starring with Noah Wyle and Blyth Danner; and Boogie Nights opposite Burt Reynolds and Mark Wahlberg.

Boogie Nights is a dark comedy by Paul Thomas Anderson which tells the story of a family of adult entertainment filmmakers who seek to transform this industry to a form of art.

The Big Lebowski is being released March, 1998, and features Moore playing Maude in a eye-candy treat from the director of Fargo, Joel Coen.

Moore will also star opposite John Cusack and fellow carrot-top Gillian Anderson in the social comedy Chicago Cab (Hellcab, 1997 working title), which chronicles a day in the life of a cabbie during the Christmas holiday.

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