Julianne Moore

“I think every part's a challenge, and you also never know if you're going to pull it off.” Julianne Moore is an American actress known for her nuanced portrayals of women facing personal and social challenges. She earned a degree in acting from Boston University and moved to New York, where she began her career in theater and television. Her breakthrough role came in 1985 with a role on the soap opera As the World Turns, which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award. Moore transitioned to film with roles in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) and Short Cuts (1993), gaining wider recognition. Her first starring role was in Safe (1995), and she earned her first Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Amber Waves in Boogie Nights (1997). She continued to receive critical acclaim for her roles in Magnolia (1999), Far from Heaven (2002), and The Hours (2002), leading to multiple Oscar nominations. In the 2000s and 2010s, Moore starred in a variety of films, including Children of Men (2006), The Kids Are All Right (2010), and Carrie (2013). She won her first Oscar for Best Actress for Still Alice (2014), where she portrayed a woman with Alzheimer's disease. Moore later appeared in Maps to the Stars (2014), Freeheld (2015), and Wonderstruck (2017), among other films. Her later projects include The Glorias (2020), in which she played feminist icon Gloria Steinem, and Lisey’s Story (2021), where she starred in a miniseries based on a Stephen King novel. Moore’s career is marked by her versatile and empathetic portrayals of complex characters across a wide range of genres.