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Who is Julianne Moore?

Julianne Moore was born Julie Anne Smith on the 3rd December 1960 in Feyetteville, North Carolina, USA. She is an Emmy Award-winning actress. She has been nominated for four Academy Awards but is yet to win one. After high school she then received her Bachelor's degree at the College of Fine Arts in Boston University. Because of Screen Actors Guild rules, she had to change her name, since there were already actresses named "Julie Smith" and "Julianne Smith". She chose her father's middle name, "Moore", but because there was already another actress named "Julie Moore", she finally settled on "Julianne Moore". She moved to New York City in 1983, working as a waitress before being cast in the dual roles of Frannie 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. For the rest of the 1990's she had a lot of supporting roles but broke though to take the leads, the most controversial of these was when she replaced Jodie Foster in Hannibal. She has been married three times, divorced twice and has two children. She is also a vehement "pro choice" advocate.