Julianne Moore

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Julianne Moore (3 December 1960 - )

Moore was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, her mother a Scottish social worker, her father a military judge. She traveled around the world with her parents, graduating from Frankfurt American High School (Germany) in 1979. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Performing Arts in Boston University in 1983.

After appearing in theater, TV soaps, miniseries, and TV movies, she caught directors' eyes when appearing in supporting roles in several movies, including The Fugitive (1993). Her breakthrough role was in Safe (1995), followed by movies such as Nine Months (1995); Assassins (1995); Surviving Picasso (1996), playing Dora Maar; Boogie Nights (1997); Big Lebowski (1998); An Ideal Husband (1999); Magnolia (1999); End of the Affair (1999); Evolution (2001); The Hours (2002); and Far From Heaven (2002).

Moore, who has two children, is a pro-choice advocate who is active with Planned Parenthood. When asked by James Lipton on "Inside the Actors Studio" what she would say to God at the Pearly Gates, she replied,

• I didn't think you existed.

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