Gentlefolk, March is upon us and its time to award our latest appreciation recipient. In keeping with our theme we like to find someone deserving and slightly under the radar. After much bantering back and forth we’ve decided to salute Julianne Moore.
While Moore is hardly invisible, we’d like to point out that she’s gotten four Oscar nominations and that she did receive two in one year. In 2003, she was nominated for a Supporting Oscar for her role in The Hours and in the Lead category for her role in Far from Heaven.
Her greatest gift seems to be her wide range which her contemporaries lack (notably Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock). She is the consummate actress having started on TV soap operas and working in every possible genre of film.
What put her over the top for me was the announcement that she is in talks to reprise her role on the CBS soap, As the World Turns. Moore got her start in acting on the soap in 1985 playing half-sisters Frannie and Sabrina Hughes and after winning a Daytime Emmy in 1988 departed the show. ATWT is set to end its 54-year run this September. Sure lots of actors go back to their roots on the stage after becoming a success, but not many go back to soap operas.
Last month I saw her on screen as an aging British socialite in A Single Man and then on TV as a no nonsense wisecracking Boston divorcee on 30 Rock. As mentioned before her body of work spans multiple genres, not that all of it has been successful. Its her willingness to avoid typecasting and taking on any role that makes her impressive.
Drama: Short Cuts, Boogie Nights, The Hours, Far From Heaven, Magnolia, A Single Man
Comedy: The Big Lebowski, Nine Months, The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag, Evolution, The Ladies Man, 30 Rock
Sci-fi: Children of Men, Next, The Forgotten, Blindness, Jurassic Park: The Lost World
I think what makes me appreciate Moore the most is that she is a true actress practicing her craft in the same no holds barred vein as Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, and Susan Sarandon; as opposed to “movie stars” like Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and Meg Ryan who show all to brief flashes of measurable talent.
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