ACTOR · BORN 1960
Julianne Moore
- Born
- 3 December 1960, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
- Known for
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), The Big Lebowski (1998), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
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- #001
Born Julie Anne Smith, she had to change her name when she registered with the actors' union because every variation of her name appeared to be taken. She later combined her first two names and took her father's middle name as her surname.
- #002
She did not learn to swim until she was 26 and only learned to drive at 27.
- #003
Her The End of the Affair (1999) co-star Ralph Fiennes said of her while being interviewed by Ralph Fiennes (2006): "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."
- #004
She reads every script she is offered.
- #005
A relatively late bloomer, Julianne did not learn to drive until she was 27, took her first feature film role at 30 and waited until she was 37 to start a family.
- #006
In an interview for Julianne Moore (2002), she stated that Ralph Fiennes was her favorite leading man. They played lovers in The End of the Affair (1999).
- #007
She is a big fan of Downton Abbey (2010). She co-starred with the series' star Michelle Dockery in Non-Stop (2014) and would ask Dockery on set about possible spoilers and secrets from the show.
- #008
She is one of twelve actors who have received Oscar nominations in two acting categories in the same year, alongside Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Emma Thompson, Jamie Foxx, Cate Blanchett and Scarlett Johansson. In 2003, at the 75th Academy Awards, she was nominated for Best Actress for Far from Heaven (2002) and Best Supporting Actress for The Hours (2002).
- #009
She has appeared in three films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Fugitive (1993), The Hours (2002) and The Kids Are All Right (2010).
- #010
She graduated from the Frankfurt American High School in Frankfurt, Germany.
- #011
To convincingly portray a housewife suffering from an immune disorder in Safe (1995), she lost 10 kilos from her already small frame.
- #012
She chose to remain uncredited for the voice role of "Aria" in Eagle Eye (2008).
- #013
Her first stage role came in the sixth grade, when she played the Little Red-Haired Girl in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" at Anne M. Dorner Middle School in Ossining, New York. She was scared and did not enjoy it.
- #014
Jewelry worth $127,000 was stolen from her apartment in New York City.
- #015
She and Eddie Redmayne played mother and son in Savage Grace (2007). In 2015, both won Oscars, for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively.
- #016
When she was nominated for two Oscars in 2003, she was competing against her The Hours (2002) co-stars Nicole Kidman (for The Hours (2002)) and Meryl Streep (for Adaptation (2002)). Kidman won the Best Actress award.
- #017
She briefly worked as a part-time waitress in Boston, Massachusetts.
- #018
She lived in Juneau, Alaska, for about a year and a half and attended school there between 1971 and 1972.
- #019
Julianne Moore was one month pregnant with her son Cal Freundlich when she finished filming The Big Lebowski (1998), and four months pregnant with her daughter Liv Freundlich when she finished filming Far from Heaven (2002).
- #020
Julianne Moore currently lives with her family in Greenwich Village in New York City.
- #021
Julianne Moore's favorite film is Rosemary's Baby (1968).
- #022
Julianne Moore was nominated three times for Screen Actors Guild Awards, in both 2000 and 2003.
- #023
Andre Gregory, who put her on stage in "Uncle Vanya," said she "evoked the sensuality and urgency of a young Joan Crawford, but with more depth, more contradictions."
- #024
Julianne Moore graduated from Boston University's School of the Arts.
- #025
Julianne Moore is a natural redhead.
- #026
Julianne Moore considers actor Michael Fassbender a cinema enthusiast.
- #027
Julianne Moore appeared with Philip Seymour Hoffman in Boogie Nights (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998) and Magnolia (1999). Both have played characters in the Hannibal Lecter series: Moore played Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001) and Hoffman played Freddie Lounds in Red Dragon (2002).
- #028
Julianne Moore's father was a judge in the Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps, and her mother was a psychiatric social worker.
- #029
Julianne Moore and Joan Cusack played pregnant women in Nine Months (1995). Both gave birth to their own sons in 1997.
- #030
On October 3, 2013, Julianne Moore was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6250 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Producer Jay Roach, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Chloë Grace Moretz were guest speakers at the ceremony.
- #031
Julianne Moore's father, Peter Moore Smith, was born in New Jersey to Charles Edward Smith Jr. and Frances Mervil Haas; her father's ancestry is German as well as Irish, English, Welsh and one-eighth German-Jewish. Her mother, Anne (Love), was born in Greenock, Scotland to Henry McNeil Love and Flora McMillan McLean. Her mother's family moved to New Jersey in 1951.
- #032
Julianne Moore is generally the fourth actor and the second actress to achieve the rare feat of winning acting awards at three major film festivals: the 2002 Volpi Cup for Best Actress for Far from Heaven (2002), the 2003 Silver Bear for Best Actress for The Hours (2002) (shared with Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep) and the 2014 Cannes Best Actress award for Maps to the Stars (2014). The other actors to achieve this are Jack Lemmon, Sean Penn and Juliette Binoche. All four actors have also won an acting Oscar.
- #033
Julianne Moore was selected as one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful."
- #034
Julianne Moore's mother, Ann Love Smith, died on April 29, 2009, at the age of 68.
- #035
Julianne Moore is one of 13 actresses to win the Oscar, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. In chronological order, the others are Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (2000), Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain (2003), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Helen Mirren for The Queen (2006), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008), Mo'Nique for Precious (2009), Natalie Portman for Black Swan (2010), Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011), Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables (2012), Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (2013) and Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014).
- #036
Julianne Moore moved into a $900,000 three-bedroom penthouse in Greenwich Village.
- #037
On 4/12/97, Julianne Moore's son Cal Freundlich was born. His father is Bart Freundlich.
- #038
Julianne Moore's younger brother, Peter Moore Smith, is a writer and wrote the book "Raveling," whose film rights she purchased. She also has a younger sister named Valerie.
- #039
Julianne Moore is an artist ambassador for Save the Children.
- #040
The surname of her husband Bart, "Freundlich", means "friendly" in German.
- #041
While at university, Julianne Moore 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 on stage at the Guthrie Theater in the Ensemble production of George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House".
- #042
Julianne Moore moved into a $2.65 million duplex penthouse in Greenwich Village, New York City.
- #043
Julianne Moore became the 144th actor to win an Oscar; at the Oscars on 22 February 2015 (2015) she won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Still Alice (2014).
- #044
Julianne Moore is a loyal pro-choice advocate and an active member of Planned Parenthood.
- #045
Julianne Moore was nominated for Best Actress at the 2012 Women's Image Network (WIN) Awards for her work in Game Change (2012).
- #046
Julianne Moore has an "obsession" with pieces bearing the signature of furniture designers Paavo Tynell and Harvey Probber.
- #047
Julianne Moore was included in Entertainment Weekly's "The 25 Greatest Actresses of the '90s" list (published 20.11.98).
- #048
Julianne Moore received two Best Actress awards at the Venice Film Festival (from the jury and from the public) for Far from Heaven (2002).
- #049
Among the four acting winners at the Oscars (2015), Julianne Moore was the only one who had been nominated before.
- #050
Louis Malle, who directed her in Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), said "she made him think of the greatest of all ravaged beauties, Jeanne Moreau".
- #051
Julianne Moore turned down the lead role in the crime series Prime Suspect (2011), which went to Maria Bello.
- #052
Julianne Moore and her The End of the Affair (1999) co-star Ralph Fiennes both appeared in separate Hannibal Lecter films: Hannibal (2001) and Red Dragon (2002).
- #053
On 4/11/02, Julianne Moore's daughter Liv Freundlich was born. Her father is Bart Freundlich.
- #054
Julianne Moore worked with Ted Levine on Evolution (2001). Levine played Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb, who is killed by Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and later portrayed by Moore in Hannibal (2001).
- #055
Julianne Moore appeared in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), the sequel to Jurassic Park (1993) in which Laura Dern starred. She also appears in Hannibal (2001), the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs (1991), in which Jodie Foster had previously played the role of Clarice Starling. Laura Dern and Jodie Foster appeared together in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974).
- #056
Due to scheduling conflicts, Julianne Moore turned down the chance to play Hillary Clinton in the HBO film The Special Relationship (2010). The role went to Hope Davis.
- #057
Julianne Moore is one of three actresses who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a character named Alice. The others are Simone Signoret for Room at the Top (1958) and Ellen Burstyn for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974).
- #058
The film that made her cry desperately was above all Vera Drake (2004), for Imelda Staunton's heartbreaking performance.
- #059
She appeared in two films selected by the Library of Congress for the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Big Lebowski (1998) and The Hours (2002).
- #060
When she won her first Best Actress Oscar for Still Alice (2014) at the 87th Academy Awards, the statuette was presented to her by Matthew McConaughey (22 February 2015 / Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles).
- #061
She is friends with Ellen Barkin and Colin Firth.
- #062
In the 2007 Razzie Awards nomination voting she was listed as a potential nominee. She was proposed in the Worst Actress category for her performance in Freedomland (2006) but was not nominated.
- #063
In 1996 she served as a dramatic jury member at the Sundance Film Festival.
- #064
She was considered for the lead role of Kate McQueen in Fair Game (1995), which ultimately went to Cindy Crawford.
- #065
Due to scheduling conflicts, she turned down the role of Deirdre Burroughs in Running with Scissors (2006). The role went to Annette Bening.
- #066
She received the Marc Aurelio Awards at the International Rome Film Festival (Italy).
- #067
In late 2001 she appeared alongside Scott Glenn in The Shipping News (2001). Glenn had played Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Moore appeared in the sequel Hannibal (2001).
- #068
Her manager is Evelyn O'Neill, co-founder of Management 360, whom she thanked personally on the night she won the Best Actress Oscar for Still Alice (2014).
- #069
She claimed she was "fired" from the Oscar-nominated role played by Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018).
- #070
She was born at 17:53 (EST).
- #071
On 9 September 2022 she showed support for Jafar Panahi's premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
- #072
She had a cameo as a clown in The Ladies Man.
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