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Julianne Moore is an American actress who made her acting debut on television in 1984 in the mystery series The Edge of Night. The following year she made her first appearance in the soap opera As the World Turns, which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Ingenue in a Drama Series in 1988. Moore went on to appear in the television films, Money, Power, Murder (1989) and The Last to Go (1991)—before her breakthrough role as artist Marian Wyman in Robert Altman's drama film Short Cuts (1993). Her performance garnered critical acclaim as well as notoriety for a monologue her character delivers while nude below the waist. Among Moore's releases of 1995 were Todd Haynes' drama Safe and the romantic comedy Nine Months, in which she starred alongside Hugh Grant. The following year she portrayed French painter Dora Maar in the Merchant Ivory film Surviving Picasso opposite Anthony Hopkins and Natascha McElhone. In 1997 Moore portrayed a veteran pornographic actress in Paul Thomas Anderson's drama Boogie Nights—a role that earned her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also appeared in Steven Spielberg's science fiction adventure sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park—Moore's biggest commercial success to that point. Two years later she played a wartime adulteress in The End of the Affair for which she received her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination.
In 2001, Moore portrayed the fictional character of Clarice Starling in the crime thriller sequel Hannibal, and appeared as a scientist in the science fiction comedy Evolution. The following year she re-teamed with Todd Haynes on the drama Far from Heaven and starred in the Stephen Daldry-directed drama The Hours, playing a troubled 1950s suburban housewife in both films. She garnered the Volpi Cup for Best Actress from the Venice Film Festival for the former and the Silver Bear for Best Actress from the Berlin International Film Festival for the latter. She also received Academy Award nominations for both Best Actress (Far From Heaven) and Best Supporting Actress (The Hours). In 2006 Moore starred in the crime drama Freedomland and the Alfonso Cuarón-directed science fiction thriller Children of Men. She went on to play the socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland in Savage Grace (2007) and appeared opposite Colin Firth in the drama A Single Man (2009).
In 2012, she played politician Sarah Palin in the political television drama Game Change, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. Two years later she starred in the satirical drama Maps to the Stars, and the drama Still Alice. For playing an ageing washed up actress in the former she garnered the Best Actress Award from the Cannes Film Festival, and her performance in the latter as a linguistics professor with early-onset Alzheimer's disease earned her the Best Actress Oscar. Moore also appeared in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 which, as of July 2015, is her highest-grossing film, with a worldwide box office total of over $752 million.