Julianne Moore was born under the name of Julie Anne Smith in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to a Scottish psychiatric worker and a military judge. Julianne Moore has two other siblings, a younger sister and a brother. Because her father was in the army, Julianne spent most of her growing up years traveling between Germany and the United States. Moore graduated at the Frankfurt American High School in 1979. Julianne Moore then took up a Bachelor's Degree at the College of Fine Arts in Boston University.

When Julianne Moore moved to New York around 1983, she worked as a waitress before she started her acting career by taking on dual roles of Frannie and Sabrina Hughes in the daytime drama "As the World Turns". Julianne Moore won a Daytime Emmy Award during her stay at the show, which was from 1985-1988. She then landed in supporting roles in feature films during the early 1990s, such as The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Benny and Joon, and The Fugitive, but it was in the movie Short Cuts that led her to bigger roles in high-profile films including Nine Months (1995) and The Lost World Jurassic Park (1997).

Julianne Moore landed on more serious and critically acclaimed films during the turn of the millennium. She received Oscar nominations for her roles in Boogie Nights (1997), The End of the Affair (1999), Far From Heaven (2002) and The Hours (2002). She also replaced Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in Hannibal (sequel to Silence of the Lambs), as well as led a reprising role in the movie Magnolia, which was the follow-up to Boogie Nights.
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