ACTOR · BORN 1960
Julianne Moore
- Born
- 3 December 1960, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
- Known for
- The Big Lebowski (1998), Boogie Nights (1997), Carrie (2013), The Woman in the Window (2021)
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Julianne Moore (born 3 December 1960) is an actor best known for The Big Lebowski, Boogie Nights and Carrie.
Julianne Moore over the years
33 Interesting Facts About Julianne Moore
Interesting Facts (14)
- #001
She didn't learn to swim until 26 or to drive until 27.
- #002
Her The End of the Affair (1999) co-star Ralph Fiennes said of her in a 2006 interview: "Julianne Moore has an extraordinary spirit for going against the grain. And funny and a sense of humor - we giggled a lot. I was very relaxed with her. And her humor - not just the great talent, but also the sense of humor. A great friendship and I'm still friends with Julianne. It changed me, I gained a friend whom I trust, love and would want to work with again."
Julianne Moore: Mistery WomanImage: Wikimedia Commons · Jennifer 8. Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0 - #003
Something of a late bloomer, Julianne didn't learn to drive until 27, got her first feature film role at 30 and waited until 37 to start a family.
- #004
In a 2002 interview she named Ralph Fiennes, her lover in The End of the Affair (1999), as her favorite leading man.
Julianne Moore: Mistery WomanImage: Wikimedia Commons · Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0 - #005
She's a huge Downton Abbey (2010) fan, and when she worked with its star Michelle Dockery on Non-Stop (2014), she kept quizzing Dockery on set for spoilers and secrets.
- #006
She chose to go uncredited as the voice of "Aria" in Eagle Eye (2008).
- #007
Andre Gregory, who directed her on stage in "Uncle Vanya," said she "evoked the sensuality and urgency of a young Joan Crawford, but with more depth, more contradictions."
- #008
Julianne Moore's red hair is natural.
- #009
Julianne Moore regards actor Michael Fassbender as a true film enthusiast.
- #010
Julianne Moore is a Save the Children artist ambassador.
- #011
Her husband Bart's surname, "Freundlich," is German for "friendly."
- #012
Julianne Moore is a staunch pro-choice advocate and an active member of Planned Parenthood.
- #013
Julianne Moore has an "obsession" with signed pieces by furniture designers Paavo Tynell and Harvey Probber.
- #014
Louis Malle, her director on Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), said "she made him think of the greatest of all ravaged beauties, Jeanne Moreau".
Behind the Scenes (5)
- #015
After Jodie Foster turned down the chance to reprise her Oscar-winning role as Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001), several actresses were considered for the part. Moore won out over contenders such as Helen Hunt, Gillian Anderson and Cate Blanchett.
- #016
She and Joan Cusack played pregnant women in Nine Months (1995). In 1997, both had sons of their own.
- #017
While at university she auditioned for the prestigious Guthrie Theater Drama School at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but instead continued her BFA in Boston. Several years later she appeared at the Guthrie Theater in the Ensemble production of George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House".
- #018
Among the four acting winners at the Oscars (2015), she was the only one who had been nominated before.
- #019
The film that made her cry desperately was primarily Vera Drake (2004), with Imelda Staunton's heartbreaking performance.
Career & Awards (7)
- #020
Her first time on stage was in sixth grade, as the Little Red-Haired Girl in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" at Anne M. Dorner Middle School in Ossining, New York, and she was frightened and didn't enjoy it.
- #021
On October 3, 2013, Julianne Moore received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6250 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, with producer Jay Roach, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Chloë Grace Moretz speaking at the ceremony.
- #022
Julianne Moore became the 144th actor to win an Oscar when she took Best Actress for Still Alice (2014) on 22 February 2015.
- #023
Entertainment Weekly included Julianne Moore in "The 25 Greatest Actresses of the '90s" (published 20.11.98).
- #024
Matthew McConaughey handed her the statuette when she won her first Best Actress Oscar, for Still Alice (2014), at the 87th Academy Awards (22 February 2015, Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles).
- #025
She says she was "fired" from the Oscar-nominated role Melissa McCarthy went on to play in Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018).
- #026
At the 2022 Venice Film Festival, on 9 September, she came out in support of Jafar Panahi's premiere.
Life & Family (7)
- #027
To play a housewife with an immune disorder convincingly in Safe (1995), she lost 10 kilos from her already slight frame.
- #028
Julianne Moore was a month pregnant with her son Cal Freundlich when she wrapped The Big Lebowski (1998), and four months pregnant with her daughter Liv Freundlich when she wrapped Far from Heaven (2002).
- #029
Rosemary's Baby (1968) is Julianne Moore's favorite film.
- #030
Her father served as a military judge in the Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps, while her mother worked as a psychiatric social worker.
- #031
Julianne Moore's father, Peter Moore Smith, was born in New Jersey to Charles Edward Smith Jr. and Frances Mervil Haas, with German, Irish, English, Welsh and one-eighth German-Jewish ancestry. Her mother, Anne (Love), was born in Greenock, Scotland, to Henry McNeil Love and Flora McMillan McLean, and her family moved to New Jersey in 1951.
- #032
Julianne Moore's mother, Ann Love Smith, died on April 29, 2009, aged 68.
- #033
Julianne Moore's son, Cal Freundlich, was born on 4/12/97; his father is Bart Freundlich.
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