Julianne Moore appreciation thread

[Canada]

Julianne Moore was born Julie Anne Smith in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on December 3, 1960, the daughter of Anne (Love), a social worker, and Peter Moore Smith, a paratrooper, colonel, and later military judge. Her mother moved to the U.S. in 1951, from Greenock, Scotland. Her father, from Burlington, New Jersey, has German, Irish, Welsh, German-Jewish, and English ancestry.

Moore spent the early years of her life in over two dozen locations around the world with her parents, during her father's military career. She finally found her place at Boston University, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree in acting from the School of the Performing Arts. After graduation (in 1983), She took the stage name "Julianne Moore" because there was another actress named "Julie Anne Smith". Julianne moved to New York and worked extensively in theater, including appearances off-Broadway in two Caryl Churchill plays, Serious Money and Ice Cream With Hot Fudge and as Ophelia in Hamlet at The Guthrie Theatre. But despite her formal training, Julianne fell into the attractive actress' trap of the mid-1980's: TV soaps and miniseries. She appeared briefly in the daytime serial The Edge of Night (1956) and from 1985 to 1988 she played two half-sisters Frannie and Sabrina on the soap As the World Turns (1956). This performance later led to an Outstanding Ingénue Daytime Emmy Award in 1988. Her subsequent appearances were in mostly forgettable TV-movies, such as Money, Power, Murder. (1989), The Last to Go (1991) and Cast a Deadly Spell (1991).

She made her entrance into the big screen with 1990's Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990), where she played the victim of a mummy. Two years later, Julianne appeared in feature films with supporting parts in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) and the comedy The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992). She kept winning better and more powerful roles as time went on, including a small but memorable role as a doctor who spots Kimble Harrison Ford and attempts to thwart his escape in The Fugitive (1993). (A role that made such an impression on Steven Spielberg that he cast her in the Jurassic Park (1993) sequel without an audition in 1997). In one of Moore's most distinguished performances, she recapitulated her "beguiling Yelena" from Andre Gregory's workshop version of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Louis Malle's critically acclaimed Vanya on 42nd Street (1994). Director Todd Haynes gave Julianne her first opportunity to take on a lead role in Safe (1995). Her portrayal of Carol White, an affluent L.A. housewife who develops an inexplicable allergic reaction to her environment, won critical praise as well as an Independent Spirit Award nomination.

Later that year she found her way into romantic comedy, co-starring as Hugh Grant's pregnant girlfriend in Nine Months (1995). Following films included Assassins (1995), where she played an electronics security expert targeted for death (next to Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas) and Surviving Picasso (1996), where she played Dora Maar, one of the numerous lovers of Picasso (portrayed by her hero, Anthony Hopkins). A year later, after co-starring in Spielberg's The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), opposite Jeff Goldblum, a young and unknown director, Paul Thomas Anderson asked Julianne to appear in his movie, Boogie Nights (1997). Despite her misgivings, she finally was won over by the script and her decision to play the role of Amber Waves, a loving porn star who acts as a mother figure to a ragtag crew, proved to be a wise one, since she received both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Julianne started 1998 by playing an erotic artist in The Big Lebowski (1998), continued with a small role in the social comedy Chicago Cab (1997) and ended with a subtle performance in Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho (1960). 1999 had Moore as busy as an actress can be.

As the century closed, Julianne starred in a number of high-profile projects, beginning with Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune (1999) , in which she was cast as the mentally challenged but adorable sister of a decidedly unhinged Glenn Close. A portrayal of the scheming Mrs. Cheveley followed in Oliver Parker's An Ideal Husband (1999) with a number of critics asserting that Moore was the best part of the movie. She then enjoyed another collaboration with director Anderson in Magnolia (1999) and continued with an outstanding performance in The End of the Affair (1999), for which she garnered another Oscar nomination. She ended 1999 with another great performance, that of a grieving mother in A Map of the World (1999), opposite Sigourney Weaver.

The Glorias: A Life on the Road (filming)
2019 Untitled Luca Guadagnino Project (Short) (post-production)
2019 The Woman in the Window (post-production)
2019 After the Wedding
2018 Bel Canto
2018 Gloria Bell
2017 Kingsman: The Golden Circle
2017 Suburbicon
2017 Nightcap (TV Series)
Julianne Moore
Single White Staci (2017) ... Julianne Moore
2017 Sia: Free Me (Video short) Narrator (voice)
2017 Wonderstruck
2016 Difficult People (TV Series)
High Alert (2016)
2016 Inside Amy Schumer (TV Series) Julianne Moore
2016 Brave (2016)
2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 Maggie's Plan
2014 9 Kisses (Short)
2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014 Still Alice
Maps to the Stars
2014 Non-Stop
2013 Carrie
Margaret White
Linda Sinclair
2009-2013 30 Rock (TV Series)
Nancy Donovan
- Hogcock!/Last Lunch (2013) ... Nancy Donovan
- I Do Do (2010) ... Nancy Donovan
- Emanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land (2010) ... Nancy Donovan
- Lee Marvin vs. Derek Jeter (2010) ... Nancy Donovan
- Winter Madness (2010) ... Nancy Donovan
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2013 Don Jon
2012 What Maisie Knew
2012 Being Flynn
2012 Game Change (TV Movie)
2011 Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011 A Child's Garden of Poetry (TV Movie)
Narrator (voice)
1985-2010 As the World Turns (TV Series)
Frannie Hughes
- Episode #1.13741 (2010) ... Frannie Hughes
- Episode dated 24 December 1987 (1987) ... Frannie Hughes
- Episode dated 22 May 1986 (1986) ... Frannie Hughes (uncredited)
- Episode dated 25 April 1986 (1986) ... Frannie Hughes (uncredited)
- Episode dated 24 April 1986 (1986) ... Frannie Hughes
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2010 6 Souls
Cara Harding
2010 Elektra Luxx
2010 The Kids Are All Right
2009 Chloe
2009 A Single Man
2009 The Ballad of G.I. Joe (Video short)
2009 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2008 Eagle Eye ARIIA (voice, uncredited)
2008 Blindness
2007 I'm Not There
2007 Savage Grace
2007 Next
2007 Vanity Fair: Killers Kill, Dead Men Die (Video short)
The Mistery Woman (credit only)
2006 Children of Men
2006 Freedomland
2005 The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
2005 The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
2005 Trust the Man
2004 The Forgotten
2004 Laws of Attraction
2004 Marie and Bruce
2002 The Hours
2002 Far from Heaven
2001 The Shipping News
2001 World Traveler
2001 Evolution
2001 Hannibal
2000 Not I (Short)
2000 The Ladies Man
1999 Magnolia
1999 The End of the Affair
1999 Aimee Mann: Save Me (Video short)
1999 A Map of the World
1999 An Ideal Husband
1999 Cookie's Fortune
1998 Psycho
1998 Welcome to Hollywood
1998 The Big Lebowski
1997 Chicago Cab
1997 Boogie Nights
1997 Jurassic Park: Chaos Island (Video Game) (voice)
1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 The Myth of Fingerprints
1996 Surviving Picasso
1995 Assassins
1995 Nine Months
1995 Roommates
1995 Safe
1994 Vanya on 42nd Street
1993 Short Cuts
1993 The Fugitive
1993 Benny & Joon
1993 Body of Evidence
1992 The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

[Canada]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzR3CUU51IU

[Canada]

[Elgie]

[Creed]

Phenomenal.

[AaronJ]

One of my all-time favorite actresses. She's given so many knock out performances that I've lost count.

[Cremildo]

Redheads are the best.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

Redheads are the best.

Difficult to argue with that.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

One of my all-time favorite actresses. She's given so many knock out performances that I've lost count.

[AaronJ]

I was thinking more along these lines:



But OK.

[pab1219]

Beauty.

[Ribelin2000]

[AaronJ]

Hot!

[pab1219]

Damn!!!!

[KJH2018]

I need to see more of her stuff.

[rkolinski]

[Canada]

[goresnet]

[goresnet]

[Daci]