Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore
The Kids Are All Right, The Hours, Hannibal, Children of Men
Julianne Moore is one of only eleven people in Academy Awards history to receive two acting Oscar nominations in the same year; she was nominated for her performances in two 2002 films, Todd Haynes' Far from Heaven and Stephen Daldry's The Hours. Far from Heaven earned her Best Actress citations from the Independent Spirit Awards, National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Broadcast Film Critics Association, among others; she also was a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominee for her portrayal. Her work in The Hours additionally brought her two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, for her performance and as part of the ensemble.
She has been nominated for the Academy Award twice more, for her performances in Neil Jordan's The End of the Affair and Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights. These performances each also garnered her Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. She also received a Golden Globe and Critics' Choice Award nominee for her performance in Tom Ford's A Single Man.
Her many additional film credits include Magnolia, for which she was a Screen Actors Guild Award nominee; Safe, for which she was an Independent Spirit Award nominee, I'm Not There, Short Cuts, which earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination and for which she shared a Golden Globe Award with the ensemble, and Cookie's Fortune, Blindness, Chloe, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Savage Grace, Freedomland, Children of Men, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, Hannibal, An Ideal Husband, for which she was a Golden Globe Award nominee, The Big Lebowski, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Surviving Picasso, Vanya on 42nd Street, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The Myth of Fingerprints, World Traveler, and Trust the Man.
Julianne Moore recently completed filming Crazy, Stupid, Love starring opposite Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Kevin Bacon, and Marisa Tomei and directed by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra. She is now working on Another Bullshit Night in Suck City with Robert De Niro and Paul Dano and directed by Paul Weitz.
She has additionally been honored with the Excellence in Media Award at the 2004 GLAAD Media Awards; the Actor Award at the 2002 Gotham Awards; and the Tribute to Independent Vision Award at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
After earning her B.F.A. from Boston University for the Performing Arts, she starred in a number of off-Broadway productions, including stagings of Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money and Ice Cream/Hot Fudge at the Public Theater. Among her other stage credits are William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, directed by Garland Wright, at Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater; and David Hare’s The Vertical Hour, directed by Sam Mendes, which marked her Broadway debut.
She is set to star as the former Alaska governor Sarah Palin in HBO's Game Change based on Mark Halperin and John Heilemann‘s 2010 bestseller of the same name.
Julianne Moore at the Internet Movie Database