Nude Filmography:
>> The End of the Affair (1999)
>> The Big Lebowski (1998)
>> Boogie Nights (1997)
>> Body of Evidence (1993)
>> Short Cuts (1993)
Mini Biography :
>> The daughter of a military judge and a Scottish social
worker, Julianne Moore was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina on
December 3, 1960. She spent the early years of her life in over two
dozen locations around the world with her parents before she finally
found her place at Boston University, where she earned her Bachelor
of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree in acting from the School of the Performing
Arts. After graduation (in 1983), Julianne moved to New York and worked
extensively in theater, including appearances off-Broadway in two
Caryl Churchill plays, Serious Money and Ice Cream With Hot Fudge
and as Ophelia in Hamlet at The Guthrie Theatre. But despite her formal
training, Julianne fell into the attractive actress' trap of the mid-1980's:
TV soaps and miniseries.
>> She appeared briefly in the daytime serial _"Edge of Night,
The" (1956)_ and from 1985 to 1988 she played two half-sisters Frannie
and Sabrina on the soap "As the World Turns" (1956). This performance
later led to an Outstanding Ingénue Daytime Emmy Award in 1988. Her
subsequent appearances were in mostly forgettable TV-movies, such
as Money, Power, Murder. (1989) (TV), Last to Go, The (1991) (TV)
and Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) (TV). She made her entrance into the
big screen with 1990's Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990),
where she played the victim of a mummy. Two years later, Julianne
appeared in feature films with supporting parts in Hand That Rocks
the Cradle, The (1992) and the comedy Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag,
The (1992). She kept winning better and more powerful roles as time
went on, including a small but memorable role as Harrison Ford's colleague
in Fugitive, The (1993). (A role that made such an impression on Steven
Spielberg that he cast her in the Jurassic Park (1993) sequel without
an audition in 1997). In one of Moore's most distinguished performances,
she recapitulated her "beguiling Yelena" from Andre Gregory's workshop
version of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Louis Malle's critically acclaimed
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994).
>> Director Todd Haynes gave Julianne her first opportunity
to take on a lead role in Safe (1995). Her portrayal of Carol White,
an affluent L.A. housewife who develops an inexplicable allergic reaction
to her environment, won critical praise as well as an Independent
Spirit Award nomination. Later that year she found her way into romantic
comedy, co-starring as Hugh Grant's pregnant girlfriend in Nine Months
(1995). Following films included Assassins (1995), where she played
an electronics security expert targeted for death (next to Sylvester
Stallone and Antonio Banderas) and Surviving Picasso (1996), where
she played Dora Maar, one of the numerous lovers of Picasso (portrayed
by her hero, Anthony Hopkins). A year later, after co-starring in
Spielberg's Lost World: Jurassic Park, The (1997), opposite Jeff Goldblum,
a young and unknown director, Paul Thomas Anderson asked Julianne
to appear in his movie, Boogie Nights (1997). Despite her misgivings,
she finally was won over by the script and her decision to play the
role of Amber Waves, a loving porn star who acts as a mother figure
to a ragtag crew, proved to be a wise one, since she received both
Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations.
>> Julianne started 1998 by playing an erotic artist in Big
Lebowski, The (1998), continued with a small role in the social comedy
Chicago Cab (1998) and ended with a subtle performance in Gus Van
Sant's remake of Psycho (1960). 1999 had Moore as busy as an actress
can be. She starred in a number of high-profile projects, beginning
with Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune (1999) , in which she was cast
as the mentally challenged but adorable sister of a decidedly unhinged
Glenn Close. A portrayal of the scheming Mrs. Cheveley followed in
Oliver Parker (I)'s Ideal Husband, An (1999) with a number of critics
asserting that Moore was the best part of the movie. She then enjoyed
another collaboration with director Anderson in Magnolia (1999) and
continued with an outstanding performance in End of the Affair, The
(1999), for which she garnered another Oscar nomination. She ended
1999 with another great performance, that of a grieving mother in
Map of the World, A (1999), opposite Sigourney Weaver.
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