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Trivia
Birth name: Julie Anne Smith
Date of birth: 3 December 1960
Place of birth: Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
Nickname: Juli
Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m)
Spouse: Bart Freundlich (23 August 2003 - present) 2 children,
John Gould Rubin (3 May 1986 - 25 August 1995) (divorced), Sundar Chakravarthy (21 November 1983 - 12 October 1985) (divorced).
Son, Cal (b. 4 December 1997). Father is
Bart Freundlich.
Her father was a judge in the Army's Judge
Advocate General Corps and her mother was a psychiatric social worker.
Graduated from Boston University's School of
the Arts.
Moved into $900,000 3-bedroom loft in
Greenwich Village. [November 1999]
Worked briefly as part-time waitress in
Boston, MA.
Is a staunch pro-choice advocate and an
active member of Planned Parenthood.
Born Julie Anne Smith, she had to change her
name when she registered with the Actor's Guild as every variation of
her name seemed to be taken. She then combined her first two names and
assumed her father's middle name as her surname.
Lived in Juneau, Alaska for about a year and
a half and attended school there from 1971-1972.
Was considered for the lead role of Kate
McQueen in Fair Game (1995). The part eventually went to Cindy Crawford.
After Jodie Foster turned down the chance to
reprise her Oscar-winning role of Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001),
several actresses were considered for the part Moore triumphed over such
contenders as Helen Hunt, Gillian Anderson and Cate Blanchett.
In order to convincingly portray the role of
a housewife suffering from an immune disorder in Safe (1995), she lost
10 pounds off of her already petite frame.
She reads every script she receives.
Her brother, Peter Moore Smith, is an author
and has written the book "Raveling" for which Julianne Moore
has bought the film rights.
She was on ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY's list of
"The 25 Greatest Actresses of the '90s" (issue date: 11/20/98)
Chosen as one of People Magazine's '50 most
beautiful' list [2001]
Andre Gregory, who directed her onstage in
"Uncle Vanya", said "that she evoked the sensuality and
urgency of a young Joan Crawford, but with more depth, more
contradictions."
Louis Malle, who directed her in the 1994
movie version, Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), said "that she made him
think of the greatest of all ravaged beauties, Jeanne Moreau."
Moved into $2.65 Mio duplex penthouse in
Greenwich Village [2002]
Daughter, Liv Helen (b. 11 April 2002).
Father is Bart Freundlich.
Graduated from Frankfurt American High
School in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1979.
She is one of the elite ten thespians to
have been nominated for both a Supporting and a Lead Acting Academy
Award in the same year. In 2003, she was nominated for a Supporting
Oscar for her role in The Hours (2002), and in the Lead category for her
role in Far from Heaven (2002). The other nine are Fay Bainter, Teresa
Wright, Barry Fitzgerald (he has been nominated in both categories for
the same role in the same movie), Jessica Lange, Al
Pacino, Sigourney Weaver, Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, and Jamie
Foxx.
She and Joan Cusack played pregnant women in
Nine Months (1995). In 1997, their own sons were born.
Born on the same day as actress Daryl
Hannah. She also shares a birthday with actor Brendan
Fraser.
While in college, she auditioned for the
prestigious Guthrie Theater Drama School at the Guthrie Theater,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, but continued to pursue her BFA at Boston
instead. A few years later, she performed at the Guthrie Theater in the
Ensamble, production of George Bernard Shaw "Heartbreak
House".
She and her The End of the Affair (1999)
co-star Ralph Fiennes have acted in separate Hannibal Lecter films: she
in Hannibal (2001) and he in Red Dragon (2002).
In Evolution (2001), she works with Ted
Levine. Levine played Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb in The Silence
of the Lambs (1991), who is killed by Clarice Starling, later played by
Moore in Hannibal (2001).
Received triple nominations from the Screen
Actors Guild Awards in both 2000 and 2003.
Late in 2001, she appeared in The Shipping
News (2001) with Scott Glenn. Glenn had played Jack Crawford in The
Silence of the Lambs (1991). Moore appeared in the sequel, Hannibal
(2001).
Appears in Boogie Nights (1997), The Big
Lebowski (1998) and Magnolia (1999) with Philip Seymour Hoffman. Both of
them have played characters in the Hannibal Lecter series. Moore played
Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001), and Hoffman played Freddie Lounds
in Red Dragon (2002).
In the year 2003, when she was nominated for
two Oscars, she was in competition with her co-stars from The Hours
(2002); Nicole Kidman for The Hours (2002) and Meryl Streep for
Adaptation. (2002).
Appears in The Lost World, the sequel to
Jurassic Park, in which Laura Dern was the heroine. Also appears in
Hannibal (2001), the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs (1991), in which
Jodie Foster preceded her as Clarice Starling. Laura Dern and Jodie
Foster appeared together in _Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1990).
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