Julianne Moore

One of today's most versatile and charismatic actresses, Julianne Moore is known for her breadth of work, with memorable performances in everything from comedy to drama, blockbusters to art-house fareand from the big screen to the small screen.

Moore starred in Kimberly Peirce's remake of the cult-classic horror film Carrie.  In 2014, she portrayed President Alma Coin in Lionsgate's popular franchise The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, with Jennifer Lawrence and Philip Seymour Hoffman and opposite Jeff Bridges in the sweeping fantasy-adventure Seventh Son.  She took part on David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars alongside Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson and John Cusack.

Moore is the ninth person in Academy history to receive two acting Oscar® nominations in the same year (2003), for her performances in Far From Heaven (Best Actress) and The Hours (Best Supporting Actress), after receiving many critics' awards as well as Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and Golden Globe awards nominations.  Moore is a four-time Academy Award® nominee, eight-time Golden Globe Award nominee, 10-time SAG Award nominee, three-time BAFTA nominee and three-time Independent Spirit Award nominee, winning in 2003 for Far From Heaven. 

In 2012, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role as Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in the HBO original movie Game Change.  This role also garnered wins at the 2013 SAG and Golden Globe awards.  Her additional honors include the Excellence in Media Award at the 2004 GLAAD Media Awards, the Silver Berlin Bear Award at the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival, the 2002 Coppa Volpi for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, the Actor Award at the 2002 Gotham Awards and the Tribute to Independent Vision Award at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.

Moore's notable films include Crazy, Stupid, Love., The Kids Are All Right, A Single Man, The Forgotten, What Maisie Knew, The English Teacher, Laws of Attraction, Chloe, 6 Souls, Blindness, Saving Grace, I'm Not There, Children of Men,  Hannibal, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Fugitive, Nine Month, Benny & Joon, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The End of the Affair, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Cookie's Fortune, Short Cuts, Don Jon,Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho, Safe, Vanya on 42nd Street, Surviving Picasso and The Big Lebowski.

An accomplished author, Moore released already her fourth book "My Mom is a Foreigner, But Not to Me," based on her experiences growing up with a mother from Scotland.  Her previous work includes the successful children's books "Freckleface Strawberry," "Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully" and "Freckleface Strawberry: Best Friends Forever."  In 2013, Moore released her Freckleface Strawberry Monster Maker app via iTunes which was inspired by the book's main character and allows users to make their own monster to send to family and friends.  The original book was also adapted into a successful off-Broadway musical.

After earning her bachelor of fine arts from Boston University for performing arts, Moore starred in a number of off-Broadway productions, including Caryl Churchill's Serious Money and Ice Cream with Hot Fudge at the Public Theater.  She appeared in Minneapolis in the Guthrie Theater's Hamlet, and participated in workshop productions of August Strindberg's The Father, with Al Pacino, and Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter, with Meryl Streep.  Moore made her Broadway debut in 2006 in Sam Mendes' production of The Vertical Hour, an original play written by David Hare.

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