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Julianne Moore - Biography |
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Julianne Moore comes from a long and
vital tradition of Army brats who have spun their childhood ability to
adapt to an ever-changing social milieu into an acting career. The
daughter of a psychiatric social worker and a military judge, Moore
alighted in some 23 different places all over the world before landing at
Boston University. After earning her B.F.A. degree in acting from the
university's School of the Performing Arts, Moore touched down in
Manhattan, where she appeared in a number of late-'80s off-Broadway plays,
including productions of Caryl Churchill's Serious Money and Ice Cream
With Hot Fudge. She branched out into television with a short-term part on
the daytime drama The Edge of Night, which led in turn to a three-year
stint (1985 to 1988) playing half-sisters Frannie and Sabrina on As the
World Turns, a dual role for which Moore earned an Outstanding Ingenue
Emmy in 1988.
Moore's first minor coup on the small screen came in the form of a
supporting role as Valerie Bertinelli's friend in the 1987 prime-time
mini-series Judith Krantz's I'll Take Manhattan. A subsequent string of
forgotten TV movies certainly benefited from her striking presence, but
they did little in return to boost her career. Moore's feature debut as
the victim of a mummy in the deplorable Tales From the Darkside: The Movie
(1990) also failed to raise her prominence in Hollywood, but she fared
significantly better as the salon-coifed, outspoken real estate agent in
the 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. Things were looking up
significantly the following year: she played a fleeting, but pivotal, role
in the Harrison Ford-Tommy Lee Jones blockbuster The Fugitive; she
shouldered the thankless burden of playing Willem Dafoe's wife in the
execrable Body of Evidence; and she stole the show as the waitress
girlfriend of Aidan Quinn in the endearing fable Benny & Joon. In Robert
Altman's Short Cuts, Moore startled audiences with one of 1993's most
talked-about scenes: in the role of Matthew Modine's artist-wife, she
delivers a feisty monologue while standing before him in the nude from the
waist down. She capped off the banner year by appearing opposite Al Pacino
in a workshop production of Strindberg's The Father.
In one of her more prestigious performances to date, Moore reprised her
beguiling Yelena from Andre Gregory's ongoing workshop version of
Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in the late Louis Malle's critically acclaimed Vanya
on 42nd Street. Following another secondary role as D.B. Sweeney's
social-worker wife in Peter Yates's Roommates, Moore tackled her first
lead in underground filmmaker Todd Haynes's societal critique, Safe, in
which she delivered a stunning performance as a well-to-do L.A. housewife
who develops an inexplicable and terrifying allergic reaction to her
oh-so-ordered twentieth-century existence. She offset the gravitates of
that film with performances as Hugh Grant's pregnant girlfriend in the
fluffy romantic comedy Nine Months, and as a sassy and smart electronics
security expert targeted for assassination by Sly Stallone and Antonio
Banderas in Assassins. She then helped illustrate that Pablo Picasso
(Anthony Hopkins) was a right bastard, with her compelling portrayal of
Dora Maar in the Merchant-Ivory team's Surviving Picasso (1996).
Though the titian-haired beauty has garnered uniformly rave reviews from
critics and audiences alike for her scene-stealing performances in both
commercial and independent features, Moore's seemingly inevitable rise to
superstardom has been slow in coming. But her relatively anonymous
standing changed significantly in 1997. Her three-minute performance as
Harrison Ford's doctor colleague in The Fugitive was enough to convince
Steven Spielberg to cast her - without an audition - in the female lead,
as Jeff Goldblum's paleontologist girlfriend, in the Jurassic Park sequel,
The Lost World . Apart from the history-making, record-smashing success
that was that film's lot, Moore tested her box-office drawing potential in
two more feature films that year: she co-starred with Noah Wyle and Blythe
Danner in The Myth of Fingerprints, the story of a dysfunctional-family
Thanksgiving; and she scored a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination
for her work in Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson's dark tale about a
family of filmmakers who aspire to elevate the adult-entertainment
industry to a high art form.
Moore kicked off 1998 with a role as a sinister seductress in the Coen
brothers' mistaken-identity farce The Big Lebowski, and closed it out with
a subtle performance as the sister of the ill-fated Marion Crane (Anne
Heche) in director Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho. Another sisterly role
- this time opposite Glenn Close - in Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune
marked her first celluloid contribution of 1999; far more wicked was her
follow-on turn opposite Rupert Everett as a scandal-monger widow in the
Oscar Wilde adaptation An Ideal Husband. Speaking of Oscar, Moore capped
off the year with a brace of Academy Award-worthy performances: she
co-starred opposite Ralph Fiennes as an adulterous wife in the Graham
Greene adaptation The End of the Affair; and re-teamed with Boogie
brethren William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and John C. Reilly for
Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson's operatic drama about a day in the lives
of a group of lonely San Fernando outsiders. The former brought her a Best
Actress Oscar nomination.
Julianne is currently starring in the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs,
taking over the role of Clarice Starling from Jodie Foster, in that smash
Hannibal. Her next movie, Evolution, hit theaters July 16, 2001. |
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Julianne Moore - Personal Quotes |
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"You never have sex the way
people do in the movies. You don't do it on the floor, you don't do
it standing up, you don't always have all your clothes off, you
don't happen to have on all the sexy lingerie. You know, if anybody
ever ripped my clothes, I'd kill them."
"In grade school I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the
kid who's too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who's not
athletic. Well, I was all three."
"I wish I could say I broke this kicking down the door at Paramount,
but I was running after my son." - said at the GLAAD Media Awards in
reference to her broken toe and to the producers at Paramount who
are allowing Laura Schlessinger to have a TV show. Schlessinger
angered the gay community with her views on homosexuality.
"I was a goody-goody. I was one of those kids who played by the
rules. I used to have to take people to the principal's office.
Isn't that awful?" - about how she was as a child.
"Only five people got nominated in that category, and that's not
very many people. So I did all right." - about losing the 2000 Best
Actress Oscar.
I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you,
they come to see themselves.
"Now that the FDA has legalized RU-486, it makes us feel that
politically the winds are blowing our way. But, if someone has a
problem with reproductive freedom, I won't even consider voting for
them. George W. Bush is anti-choice, and I really believe that
should he be elected, we will end up in a really difficult
situation" - her views on abortion and reproductive rights, October
2000.
"It is the most wonderful experience of your life. It deepens
absolutely everything.You have a greater understanding of things,so
in a way it is a gift.For me it has made everthing much better.I'm
so happy; I am extremely fortunate." (about her son Caleb and
becoming a mother)
"I hesitate to call things companion pieces or to draw comparison
between films because I think you reduce the films by doing that."
"It's true, the classic, iconic American ideal, that heroine, our
idea of perfection is this blonde woman in a blue dress and a blue
car."
"That's the beauty of what actors do, that you only have yourself as
a resource. And so the trick is to find something in them that you
connect to somewhere. And with every single one of my characters, I
have to find something that I really understand and ultimately
believe."
My parents were very liberal. That's a misconception about the
military. I'm a proud Army brat. I love the military. It breaks my
heart what this war has done to it. These backdoor, draftlike
returns of soldiers to the front - you don't do that. You don't send
a soldier back three or four times. That's not OK."
"When someone says, 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they're
saying is 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my
bathtub is what I care about.'" |
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Julianne Moore - Filmography |
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Blindness (2008) .... Doctor's
Wife
I'm Not There (2007) (completed) .... Alice
Savage Grace (2007) .... Barbara Daly Baekeland
Next (2007) .... Agent Callie Ferris
Children of Men (2006) .... Julian
Freedomland (2006) .... Brenda Martin
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005) .... Evelyn Ryan
Trust the Man (2005) .... Rebecca
The Forgotten (2004) .... Telly Paretta
... aka Stranger (Philippines: English title: review title)
Laws of Attraction (2004) .... Audrey Woods
Marie and Bruce (2004) .... Marie
The Hours (2002) .... Laura Brown
Far from Heaven (2002) .... Cathy Whitaker
... aka Loin du paradis (France)
The Shipping News (2001) .... Wavey Prowse
... aka Noeuds et dénouements (Canada: French title)
World Traveler (2001) .... Dulcie
... aka Globe-trotter, Le (Canada: French title)
Evolution (2001) .... Dr. Allison Reed, CDC
Hannibal (2001) .... Clarice Starling
The Ladies Man (2000) .... Audrey
... aka The Ladies' Man (UK)
Not I (2000) .... Auditor/Mouth
Magnolia (1999) .... Linda Partridge
... aka mag-no'li-a (USA: promotional title)
The End of the Affair (1999) .... Sarah Miles
A Map of the World (1999) .... Theresa Collins
... aka Unschuldig verfolgt (Germany)
An Ideal Husband (1999) .... Mrs. Laura Cheveley
Cookie's Fortune (1999) .... Cora Duvall
Psycho (1998) .... Lila Crane
Chicago Cab (1998) .... Distraught Woman
... aka Hellcab (USA: video title)
"Saturday Night Live" .... Host (1 episode, 1998)
... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: first season title)
... aka SNL (USA: informal title)
... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title)
... aka Saturday Night (USA: second season title)
... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: sixth season title)
- Juliane Moore/Backstreet Boys (1998) TV Episode .... Host
The Big Lebowski (1998) .... Maude Lebowski
Boogie Nights (1997) .... Amber Waves/Maggie
The Myth of Fingerprints (1997) .... Mia
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) .... Dr. Sarah Harding
Surviving Picasso (1996) .... Dora Maar
Assassins (1995) .... Electra
... aka Assassins (France)
... aka Day of Reckoning
Nine Months (1995) .... Rebecca Taylor
Safe (1995) .... Carol White
Roommates (1995) .... Beth Holzcek
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) .... Yelena
Short Cuts (1993) .... Marian Wyman
The Fugitive (1993) .... Dr. Anne Eastman
Benny & Joon (1993) .... Ruthie
Body of Evidence (1993) .... Sharon Dulaney
... aka Body of Evidence (Canada: English title)
... aka Deadly Evidence
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992) .... Elinor
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) .... Marlene Craven
Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) (TV) .... Connie Stone
The Last to Go (1991) (TV) .... Marcy
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) .... Susan (segment "Lot
249")
"B.L. Stryker" .... Tina (1 episode, 1990)
- High Rise (1990) TV Episode (as Julie Ann Moore) .... Tina
Money, Power, Murder. (1989) (TV) .... Peggy Lynn Brady
sLaughterhouse II (1988) .... Julie
... aka Abbatoir d'amusement: La vengeance du Pigsby, L' (Canada:
French title)
"I'll Take Manhattan" (1987) (mini) TV Series .... India West
As the World Turns: 30th Anniversary (1986) (TV) .... Franny
"As the World Turns" (1956) TV Series .... Frannie Hughes Crawford
#6 (1985-1988) / ... (unknown episodes, 1986-1988)
"The Edge of Night" (1956) TV Series .... Carmen Engler (unknown
episodes, 1984)
... aka Edge of Night (USA: last season title) |
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Julianne Moore - Related Links |
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