5 Julianne Moore Films You Need to See
The Academy Award-winning actor is no stranger to tackling complex characters. These are the Julianne Moore movies you need to see, boasting her best characters.
With her career starting in 1990 with a supporting role in the film Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, Julianne Moore has since taken on several legendary figures on the silver screen. The actor is a force to be reckoned with (which extends to her fashion, too).
Usually opting to tackle feminist, strong-willed, or powerful women, Moore received her well-deserved Academy Award in 2015 for her role as a middle-aged professor with Alzheimer's disease in 2014's Still Alice. The actor, who has a degree in theatre from Boston University, has played a wide range of characters, proving her prowess across genre over the years. After college, she acted in soap operas like As The World Turns. Moore, who has a penchant for independently made pictures, has acted in films such as Safe, where she stars as a suburban housewife who develops a mysterious illness.
Keep scrolling to read about Julianne Moore's most iconic roles in cinema, featuring the five movies you must watch.
Charley Roberts in A Single Man (2009)
Opposite Colin Firth, Julianne Moore plays his character's good friend in this adaptation of the 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood. Directed by Tom Ford, the film follows a professor who recently lost his partner and reconnects with his friend Charley after deciding to take his own life.
Ingrid Parker in The Room Next Door (2024)
In her most recent project, Moore takes on the role as Ingrid Parker, who is best friends with Martha Hunt (played by Tilda Swinton), and they reconnect after many years because of Martha's tragic diagnosis. Martha however, has decided she wants to end her own life so she decides to enlist her longtime friend to help her. The film is directed by Pedro Almodóvar and received the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival this year.
Laura Brown in The Hours (2002)
An absolutely jam-packed film with Hollywood's biggest stars, the film stars Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and Moore in this film about three women whose lives surround Virginia Wolfe's book Mrs Dalloway. Moore plays an unhappy pregnant housewife in the 1950s. The movie was nominated for several Oscars in 2002, including Best Supporting Actress for Moore.
Maude Lebowski in The Big Lebowski (1998)
In this crime-comedy film, Moore stars alongside 21 other protagonists including Jeff Bridges, David Huddleston, and John Goodman, to name a few. She plays Mr. Lebowski's daughter who enjoys painting nude and flying in a harness.
Alice Howland in Still Alice (2014)
And finally, her very well-deserved Academy Award winning role as Alice Howland in Still Alice. Moore plays a linguistics professor who starts to forget words and then is met with a tragic diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. The film includes Kristen Stewart who plays her daughter and Alec Baldwin as her husband.
