Name: Julianne Moore

Birth Name: Julie Anne Smith

Birthdate: Oct. 28, 1967

Birthplace: Fayetteville, N.C.

After earning her BFA degree in acting from Boston University's School of the Performing Arts, Moore touched down in Manhattan, where she appeared on As the World Turns. Her three-minute performance as Harrison Ford's doctor colleague in 1992's The Fugitive gained her some big-screen attention, but it was her turn in Boogie Nights that scored her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination and really made audiences take note. 1999 saw her Oscar-nominated again for her part in The End of the Affair, and audiences ate her up in Magnolia. In 2001, she played the role of Clarice Starling (formerly played by Jodie Foster) in Hannibal, the sequel to the Academy Award–decorated 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs. Since then, she's been in what some have termed her "Eisenhower phase," playing a variety of dramatic 1950s housewives in films like The Hours, Far From Heaven and The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio.


1. Her father is American, her mother is Scottish.
2. She received a BFA in acting from Boston University.
3. She's an openly political pro-choice advocate.
4. She lives in New York City.
5. She has lived in South America, Germany, Paris and Alaska.


On Hollywood body image: "If you want to know the truth about actresses, it's that we're hungry all the time. We really don't eat. We live on Muesli bars and yogurt."


Husbands: Sundar Chakravarthy; married Nov. 21, 1983; divorced; John Gould Rubin; married May 3, 1986; divorced; Bart Freundlich, screenwriter and director; born 1970; married Aug. 23, 2003
Son: Caleb, born Dec. 4, 1997 (father: Freundlich) Daughter: Liv Helen, born April 11, 2002 (father: Freundlich)

2003: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress, Far From Heaven; Academy Award nomination: Best Supporting Actress, The Hours; Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), Far From Heaven

2000: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress, The End of the Affair; Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), An Ideal Husband; Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), The End of the Affair

1998: Academy Award nomination: Best Supporting Actress, Boogie Nights; Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Musical or Comedy), Boogie Nights

FILMS

Blindness - (2008) - Actor
Next - (2007) - Actor
I'm Not There - (2007) - Actor
Trust the Man - (2006) - Actor
Children of Men - (2006) - Actor
Freedomland - (2005) - Actor
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio - (2005) - Actor
Laws of Attraction - (2004) - Actor
The Forgotten - (2004) - Actor
World Traveler - (2002) - Actor
Far From Heaven - (2002) - Actor
The Hours - (2002) - Actor
Hannibal - (2001) - Actor
Evolution - (2001) - Actor
The Shipping News - (2001) - Actor
The Ladies Man - (2000) - Cameo
Hellcab - (1999) - Actor
Cookie's Fortune - (1999) - Actor
An Ideal Husband - (1999) - Actor
Magnolia - (1999) - Actor
The End of the Affair - (1999) - Actor
A Map of the World - (1999) - Actor
The Big Lebowski - (1998) - Actor
Psycho - (1998) - Actor
The Lost World - (1997) - Actor
Boogie Nights - (1997) - Actor
The Myth of Fingerprints - (1997) - Actor
Surviving Picasso - (1996) - Actor
Roommates - (1995) - Actor
Safe - (1995) - Actor
Nine Months - (1995) - Actor
Assassins - (1995) - Actor
Vanya on 42nd Street - (1994) - Actor
Body of Evidence - (1993) - Actor
The Fugitive - (1993) - Actor
Short Cuts - (1993) - Actor
Benny & Joon - (1993) - Actor
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle - (1992) - Actor
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag - (1992) - Actor
Cast a Deadly Spell - (1991) - Actor
Tales From the Darkside - The Movie - (1990) - Actor
I'll Take Manhattan - (1987) - Actor