Bio
Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore, an actress of exceptional range, has delivered outstanding work in both
box office hits and independent features. She was most recently seen in the acclaimed
film, “The Kids Are All Right,” which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
Prior to that, she was seen in fashion designer Tom Ford’s “A Single Man,” which also
starred Colin Firth and earned her a 2010 Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting
Actress.
She is the ninth person in Academy history to receive two acting Oscar
nominations in the same year for her performance in “Far From Heaven” (Best Actress)
and “The Hours” (Best Supporting Actress). For “Far From Heaven” she won the
Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress and was nominated for Golden Globe and
Screen Actors Guild Awards in the same category. She also received a Screen Actors
Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her role in “The
Hours.”
Additional honors include 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” at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
Ms. Moore’s many other film
credits include “Blindness,” “I’m Not There,” “Children of Men,” “Freedomland,” “The
Shipping News,” “The End of the Affair” (Academy Award, Golden Globe and SAG
Award nominations for Best Actress), “Boogie Nights” (Academy Award, Golden Globe
and SAG Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress), “Magnolia” (SAG Award
nomination for Best Supporting Actress), “Cookie’s Fortune” (Independent Spirit Award
nomination for Best Supporting Female), “An Ideal Husband” (Golden Globe nomination
for Best Actress), “Safe” (Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead)
and “Nine Months.”
She will next be seen in “Crazy Stupid Love” opposite Steve Carell
and Ryan Gosling. Her theater credits include Caryl Churchill’s “Serious Money”
and “Ice Cream/Hot Fudge” at the Public Theater, the Guthrie Theater’s production
of “Hamlet” and Sam Mendes’s Broadway production of “The Vertical Hour” in 2006.
She is also the author the children’s books “Freckleface Strawberry” and “Freckleface
Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully.” A third book is due out this year and an-off
Broadway musical inspired by the book series is currently in production.