With a number of hard-hitting roles to her name. She is renowned for her ability to tackle the most emotional of roles though we like her for other reasons too. Never one to shy away from controversy, Moore has championed being comfortable in your own skin. She is the author of Freckleface Strawberry, a children's book that tells of a young girl desperate to get rid of her freckles and eventually accepts them as a huge part of who she is. The book became a New York Times bestseller!
Even moore than this, she has been a leading voice in the #MeToo campaign which makes us adore her even more. Julianne Moore celebrates her 58th birthday on the 3rd of this month. We wish her the best of days.
1. She got her start on the soap opera As the World Turns. 2.
2. As part of her research for Still Alice, she spoke with women who were struggling with the Alzheimers. She didn't want to portray anything on screen that she hadn’t seen for herself.
3. By the time she was 18, she’d moved 23 times and attended 9 different schools because of her father's position in the military.
4. She's very real about the fickle nature of beauty. She says that only when she stopped wearing glasses at 16 did people think she was pretty. She's quite happy to share selfies of herself looking tired and frazzled, and real!