Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith; December 3, 1960) is an American actress and children's author. Prolific in film since the early 1990s, she is known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled women in independent films and her roles in blockbusters. She has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Emmy Awards. In 2015, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world; in 2020, The New York Times named her one of the greatest actors of the 21st century. After studying theatre at Boston University, she began acting in television. From 1985 to 1988, she was a regular in the soap opera As the World Turns, earning a Daytime Emmy Award. Moore made her breakthrough with Robert Altman's ensemble film Short Cuts (1993), followed by a critically acclaimed performance in Todd Haynes' Safe (1995). Starring roles in the blockbusters Nine Months (1995) and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) established her as a Hollywood leading lady. She received Oscar nominations for her roles in the period films Boogie Nights (1997), The End of the Affair (1999), Far from Heaven (2002) and The Hours (2002); in the first of these, she played a 1970s pornographic actress, while in the other three, she starred as an unhappy mid-20th century housewife. Her career progressed with roles in The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), Hannibal (2001), Children of Men (2006), A Single Man (2009), The Kids Are All Right (2010), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), and Maps to the Stars (2014). She won a Primetime Emmy Award for portraying Sarah Palin in the HBO film Game Change (2012) and the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying an Alzheimer's patient in Still Alice (2014). Her highest-grossing releases came with the final two films in The Hunger Games film series (2014–2015) and the spy film Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017). She has since starred in independent films and streaming projects, including Haynes' May December (2023) drama and the historical drama miniseries Mary & George (2024). In addition to her acting work, she has written a series of children's books about Freckleface Strawberry. She is married to director Bart Freundlich, with whom she has two children.
111 movies · 40 shows
The New Yorker at 100
2025·6.9
Echo Valley
2025·6.4
The Room Next Door
2024·6.7
May December
2023·6.6
Image Book
2023·0.0
Sharper
2023·6.9
When You Finish Saving the World
2023·5.8
Power of Women: The Changemakers
2022·0.0
Dear Evan Hansen
2021·6.2
With/In Volume 1
2021·3.2
Spirit Untamed
2021·7.2
The Woman in the Window
2021·6.0
The Glorias
2020·6.5
After the Wedding
2019·6.4
The Staggering Girl
2019·5.7
Gloria Bell
2019·6.0
Bel Canto
2018·5.5
Suburbicon
2017·5.9
Wonderstruck
2017·6.1
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
2017·6.9
Alec Baldwin: One Night Only
2017·0.0
Maggie's Plan
2016·5.7
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
2016·7.6
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015·6.9
Freeheld
2015·7.2
Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman
2015·0.0
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015·7.2
Seventh Son
2014·5.5
Still Alice
2014·7.5
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014·6.8
Altman
2014·6.7
Maps to the Stars
2014·6.2
Non-Stop
2014·6.8
9 Kisses
2014·5.5
Creating Carrie
2014·6.2
Carrie
2013·6.1
Don Jon
2013·6.0
Find Our Daughter
2013·5.0
The English Teacher
2013·5.5
What Maisie Knew
2013·7.1
Being Flynn
2012·6.1
Game Change
2012·6.9
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011·7.3
Florent: Queen of the Meat Market
2011·0.0
A Child's Garden of Poetry
2011·4.0
Elektra Luxx
2011·4.8
Return to Jurassic Park
2011·6.6
The Kids Are All Right
2010·6.6
6 Souls
2010·6.0
Chloe
2010·6.1
A Single Man
2009·7.3
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009·5.8
Eagle Eye
2008·6.5
Blindness
2008·6.5
I'm Not There
2007·6.5
Savage Grace
2007·5.7
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007·0.0
Next
2007·6.1
Children of Men
2006·7.6
Freedomland
2006·5.2
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
2005·5.0
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
2005·6.6
Trust the Man
2005·5.2
The True Story of Hannibal
2005·7.0
The Forgotten
2004·5.9
Laws of Attraction
2004·5.8
Marie and Bruce
2004·4.4
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003·10.0
The Hours
2002·7.3
Far from Heaven
2002·7.1
World Traveler
2002·4.1
The Shipping News
2001·6.4
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001·7.1
Evolution
2001·6.1
Hannibal
2001·6.8
Welcome to Hollywood
2000·4.2
The Ladies Man
2000·5.4
Not I
2000·5.8
The Beginning of the End of the Affair
2000·0.0
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000·7.7
Magnolia
1999·7.7
The End of the Affair
1999·6.6
A Map of the World
1999·6.0
Psycho Path
1999·7.2
Cookie's Fortune
1999·6.4
An Ideal Husband
1999·6.5
Psycho
1998·5.1
Junket Whore
1998·5.0
Chicago Cab
1998·5.8
The Big Lebowski
1998·7.8
Boogie Nights
1997·7.6
The Myth of Fingerprints
1997·5.1
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997·6.6
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997·6.9
Surviving Picasso
1996·5.8
Assassins
1995·6.5
Nine Months
1995·5.7
Safe
1995·7.0
Roommates
1995·5.7
Vanya on 42nd Street
1994·6.6
Short Cuts
1993·7.2
The Fugitive
1993·7.5
Benny & Joon
1993·7.0
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993·8.0
Body of Evidence
1993·5.0
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992·5.1
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1992·6.9
Cast a Deadly Spell
1991·6.1
The Last to Go
1991·6.3
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
1990·6.2
Money, Power, Murder.
1989·5.4