She did theatre from Boston University and she played in the television roles. She played in As The World Turns and she got a Daytime Emmy for it.  She started to play in the film in 1990 but she plays most of the time in the supporting roles.  She got her breakthrough when she played Short Cuts with Robert Altman. Other acclaimed performance is Safe, Vanya on 42nd Street.  She starred in Nine Months with The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

She was nominated for an Oscar when she played Far From Heaven, The End of The Affair and Boogie Nights. Other film appearances that were notable are Hannibal, Children of Men, Magnolia and The Big Lebowski. Julianne Moore father was Peter Moore Smith, a paratrooper with Unites States Army and later he became a colonel before becoming a military judge. Her mother, Anne worked as social worker and a psychologist and came from Scotland. She has a younger brother and sister.  She likes to be called a Scottish and she asked for British Citizenship in 2011 in order to honor her mother.  Because of her father’s occupation, she moved frequently around the state and this made her to be closer to her family. However, she said that she never felt that she came from a particular place.

Stage director and actor, John Gould Rubin became Julianne Moore;s first  husband, they met  in 1984 and the marriage took place after 2 years. They separated in 1993 but the divorce was not finalized until 1995. Bart Freundlish became her boyfriend and a father to his two children and later he became his husband.  She is known to try to keep her family together and she only picks up the material that suits her as a mother.

She is a liberal when it comes to politics and she is known to support Barack Obama for his presidential bid.  She is a prochoice activist and she is on the board of the Planned Parenthood. She campaigns for rights of gays and she is an ambassador of Save the Children.  She says that she is atheist.

She said that she is not concern more about the celebrity but she is concerned about living a normal life. She attracts little tabloid and little gossip and she said that about her job, she is just like any other person with a job and she is casual on how she appears.  She tries to maintain a natural look and she does not support plastic surgery or Botox.

Julianne Moore is an American- British and her net worth is 40 million. She was born in 1960 in Carolina. She made her money from the salary of acting in different movies and she make money from the books she writes for the children.