The daughter of a military (军事) judge and a Scottish social worker, Julianne Moore was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina December 3, 1960.

　　She spent the early years of her life in over two dozen locations (区域) around the world with her parents before she finally found her place at Boston University, where she earned her Bachelor (学士) of Fine Arts degree in acting from the School of Performing Arts.

　　After graduation in 1983, Julianne moved to New York and worked at The Guthrie Theater. Later she appeared briefly in the daytime serial The Edge of Night (1956) and from 1985 to 1988 she played two half-sisters (同父异母兄妹) Frannie and Sabrina on the soap As the World Turns (1956). This performance later led to an Emmy Award in 1988.

　　She made her entrance into the big screen with 1990’s Tales from the Darkside: The Movie. Two years later, Julianne appeared in feature films with supporting parts in the comedy The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag.

　　She kept winning better roles as time went on, including a small but memorable role as Harrison Ford’s colleague in The Fugitive (1993). (A role that made such an impression on Steven Spielberg that he cast her in the Jurassic Park sequel without an audition in 1997).

　　In 1995 she found her way into romantic comedy, costarring as Hugh Grant’s pregnant girlfriend in Nine Months. Following film included Assassins (1995), where she played an electronics security expert targeted for death (next to Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas).

　　In 1997, after costarring in Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a young and unknown director, Paul Thomas Anderson asked Julianne to appear in his movie, Boogie Nights. Despite her misgivings (疑虑), she finally was won over by the script and her decision to play the role of Amber Waves, a loving porn (色情) star, proved to be a wise one, since she received both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations.

　　On September 8, 2002, Julianne won the “Volpi Cup” as best actress at the 59th Venice Film Festival for her movie Far From Heaven. (SD-Agencies) (SD-Agencies)