Julianne Moore: ‘I’m Never Confident On The Red Carpet’ The Actress Opens
Moore was born Julie Anne Smith at Fort Bragg, near Fayetteville, North Carolina. Moore moved to New York City in 1983, working as a waitress and performing in bit parts before being cast in the dual roles of Frannie Hughes and Sabrina Hughes on the soap opera As the World Turns, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award; she played the roles from 1985 to 1988. Her first role as the central lead, Carol White, in the well-reviewed independent film Safe also attracted critical attention. Critics noted the importance of this role in establishing her as an actress to take seriously. in the Los Angeles Times review of the film, critic Manohla Dargis wrote: “The film’s three leads are extraordinary, but what Moore does with her role is so beyond the parameters of what we call great acting that it nearly defies categorization.” During this period, she also appeared in the commercial successes Hannibal (replacing Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling) and The Forgotten, in Paul Thomas Anderson’s follow-up to Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and in the Coen brothers cult hit The Big Lebowski. 2006 also saw the releasing of three of her films: Freedomland, which opened in February to mixed reviews, followed by Trust the Man, directed by her husband Bart Freundlich, and the critically acclaimed science fiction feature Children of Men.
Julianne Moore: ‘I’m Never Confident on the Red Carpet’ The actress opens up about cosmetic surgery, confidence, and being 50 in Hollywood [link]
