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“People say, ‘Oh, you’re so brave,’ or ‘You’re such a brave
actress.’ But to be brave connotes that you have to be
afraid. I’m not really afraid of things that are imaginary.
I enjoy it. I enjoy big narrative, and I enjoy big feelings.
Having a feeling is never going to kill you,” says Moore.
Moore has since joined the elite team of Hollywood’s most
esteemed actresses. She is most known for tackling rather
“tough” characters and diverse roles. In fact, she and Annette Bening starred as a lesbian couple in the 2010 indie
film The Kids Are All Right, co-starring Mark Ruffalo.
In the most recent years, she played mommy dearest in the
Carrie remake, and co-starred in the sci-fi blockbuster The
Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. After five nominations, the A-lister finally nabbed an Academy Award for her
role in Still Alice.
“I read an article that said that winning an Oscar could lead
to living five years longer,” the actress said as she began her
acceptance speech. “If that’s true, I’d really like to thank the
Academy because my husband is younger than me!”
We’ll get to her love life in a bit.

In 2015, Moore starred in the lesbian rights biopic Freeheld,
alongside Ellen Page and Michael Shannon, and reprised
her role as President Alma Coin for The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay – Part 2.
In addition to acting, she has found great success as a
children’s book author. She drew from her own experiences
to write Freckleface Strawberry, which was published in
2007. Moore has since written several follow-up books in
the Freckleface Strawberry series, as well as My Mom is a
Foreigner, But Not to Me, published in 2013.

A picture perfect family life
Moore’s first marriage was to stage director John Gould Rubin, but their matrimony was not everlasting. At the time of
their divorce, Moore admitted she got married too young, a
common mistake among youthful Hollywood A-listers.
She eventually connected with Bart Freundlich who ultimately
became her husband and father to son Caleb and daughter
Liv. They wed in August 2003 and reside in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.
“We have a very solid family life, and it is the most satisfying
thing I have ever done,” says the devoted mother and wife.

Julianne drew from her own experiences to write
Freckleface Strawberry, her first children’s book, in 2007.

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