Julianna Moore
Place of birth: Fayetteville, NC
Date of birth: December 03rd, 1960
The daughter of a military judge and a Scottish social worker, Julianne Moore was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. After graduation (in 1983), 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 "Edge of Night, The" (1986) and from 1985 to 1988 she played two half-sisters Frannie and Sabrina on the soap "As the World Turns" (1986). 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 Lost World: Jurassic Park, The (1997), opposite Jeff Goldblum, a young and unknown director, Paul Thomas Anderson asked Julianne to appear in his movie, Boogie Nights. She enjoyed another collaboration with director Anderson in Magnolia (1999) and continued with an outstanding performance in End of the Affair, The (1999), for which she garnered another Oscar nomination.
Place of birth: Fayetteville, NC
Date of birth: December 03rd, 1960
The daughter of a military judge and a Scottish social worker, Julianne Moore was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. After graduation (in 1983), 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 "Edge of Night, The" (1986) and from 1985 to 1988 she played two half-sisters Frannie and Sabrina on the soap "As the World Turns" (1986). 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 Lost World: Jurassic Park, The (1997), opposite Jeff Goldblum, a young and unknown director, Paul Thomas Anderson asked Julianne to appear in his movie, Boogie Nights. She enjoyed another collaboration with director Anderson in Magnolia (1999) and continued with an outstanding performance in End of the Affair, The (1999), for which she garnered another Oscar nomination.
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