Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#552
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Julianne Moore represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 36 years in, and Julianne is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Julianne Moore appears in 66 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Julianne. The Big Lebowski is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, music, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jesse Eisenberg, Pedro Almodóvar, Todd Haynes and others, Julianne Moore helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
The Big Lebowski (1998) as Maude Lebowski · Magnolia (1999) as Linda Partridge · Children of Men (2006) as Julian
Career snapshot
Ranked #552 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
66
1990–2026
Career length
36 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
The Big Lebowski
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
The Big Lebowski
Most frequent director
Todd Haynes
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Todd Haynes
Most common genre
Drama
44 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.6
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1990s
6.6 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The End of the Affair, Magnolia, An Ideal Husband — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.6
Across 16 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The End of the Affair, Magnolia, An Ideal Husband.
Most productive era
2010s
24 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.810 films | 6.69 films | 6.318 films | 5.57 films |
| Action | 6.93 films | 6.63 films | 6.93 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.26 films | 6.36 films | 6.35 films | 6.53 films |
| Comedy | 6.77 films | 5.84 films | 6.37 films | 4.23 films |
| Crime | 7.32 films | 6.02 films | 6.52 films | 6.52 films |
| Romance | 6.04 films | 6.55 films | 6.45 films | — |
| Horror | 5.72 films | — | 6.02 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1990Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Susan (segment ‘Lot 249’).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1998The Big Lebowski
8.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026The Debut
The current state of the argument, as Mona Friedman.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
66 of 66 films
as Maude Lebowski
Directed by Joel Coen
as Alice Howland
Directed by Wash Westmoreland
as Laurel Hester
Directed by Peter Sollett
as Julian
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Maude Lebowski
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Maude Lebowski gives Julianne Moore a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Alice Howland
Still Alice (2014)
Performance score8.1
Still Alice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alice Howland is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Laurel Hester
Freeheld (2015)
Performance score7.8
Freeheld asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Laurel Hester is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Susanna
What Maisie Knew (2013)
Performance score7.7
What Maisie Knew asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Susanna is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Maude Lebowski
Start here. The Big Lebowski is the clearest statement of what Julianne Moore does — accessible, 117 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Julianne at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Children of Men (2006)
A deliberate change of key after The Big Lebowski — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
What Maisie Knew (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Children of Men — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Still Alice (2014)
Keeps the drama register of What Maisie Knew but asks for a colder reading of it.
Freeheld (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Still Alice but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Todd Haynes
Director
5 films together
Notably Far from Heaven
Robert Altman
Director
2 films together
Notably Short Cuts
Francis Lawrence
Director
2 films together
Notably The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Rebecca Miller
Director
2 films together
Notably The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Jesse Eisenberg
Director
2 films together
Notably When You Finish Saving the World
John Harrison
Director
1 film together
Notably Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Curtis Hanson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Uli Edel
Director
1 film together
Notably Body of Evidence
Jeremiah S. Chechik
Director
1 film together
Notably Benny & Joon
Andrew Davis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fugitive
Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together
Notably Nine Months
Richard Donner
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassins
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Gus Van Sant
Director
1 film together
Notably Psycho
Joel Coen
Director
1 film together
Notably The Big Lebowski
Oliver Parker
Director
1 film together
Notably An Ideal Husband
Paul Thomas Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Magnolia
Neil Jordan
Director
1 film together
Notably The End of the Affair
Reginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ladies Man
Lasse Hallström
Director
1 film together
Notably The Shipping News
Ivan Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Evolution
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Hannibal
Stephen Daldry
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hours
Peter Howitt
Director
1 film together
Notably Laws of Attraction
Alfonso Cuarón
Director
1 film together
Notably Children of Men
Joe Roth
Director
1 film together
Notably Freedomland
Lee Tamahori
Director
1 film together
Notably Next
Fernando Meirelles
Director
1 film together
Notably Blindness
Tom Ford
Director
1 film together
Notably A Single Man
Björn Stein
Director
1 film together
Notably 6 Souls
Atom Egoyan
Director
1 film together
Notably Chloe
Lisa Cholodenko
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kids Are All Right
Glenn Ficarra
Director
1 film together
Notably Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Paul Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Being Flynn
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably Game Change
Craig Zisk
Director
1 film together
Notably The English Teacher
Kimberly Peirce
Director
1 film together
Notably Carrie
Wash Westmoreland
Director
1 film together
Notably Still Alice
Jaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together
Notably Non-Stop
David Cronenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Maps to the Stars
Peter Sollett
Director
1 film together
Notably Freeheld
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably Kingsman: The Golden Circle
George Clooney
Director
1 film together
Notably Suburbicon
Luca Guadagnino
Director
1 film together
Notably The Staggering Girl
Bart Freundlich
Director
1 film together
Notably After the Wedding
Julie Taymor
Director
1 film together
Notably The Glorias
Stephen Chbosky
Director
1 film together
Notably Dear Evan Hansen
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably The Woman in the Window
Elaine Bogan
Director
1 film together
Notably Spirit Untamed
Benjamin Caron
Director
1 film together
Notably Sharper
Pedro Almodóvar
Director
1 film together
Notably The Room Next Door
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Todd Haynes
Director
5 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Far from HeavenFrancis Lawrence
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2Robert Altman
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Short CutsRebecca Miller
Director
2 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Private Lives of Pippa LeeJesse Eisenberg
Director
2 films together · 2.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
When You Finish Saving the WorldJoel Coen
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Big LebowskiPaul Thomas Anderson
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MagnoliaAlfonso Cuarón
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Children of MenWash Westmoreland
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Still AliceAndrew Davis
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FugitiveElaine Bogan
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spirit UntamedGlenn Ficarra
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crazy, Stupid, Love.Tom Ford
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Single ManStephen Daldry
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HoursPeter Sollett
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FreeheldMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kingsman: The Golden CircleJeremiah S. Chechik
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Benny & JoonBenjamin Caron
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SharperJay Roach
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Game ChangeCurtis Hanson
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hand That Rocks the CradleJaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Non-StopRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HannibalPedro Almodóvar
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Room Next DoorLisa Cholodenko
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Kids Are All RightNeil Jordan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The End of the AffairSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lost World: Jurassic ParkJulie Taymor
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GloriasFernando Meirelles
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlindnessOliver Parker
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
An Ideal HusbandRichard Donner
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AssassinsBart Freundlich
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
After the WeddingLasse Hallström
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Shipping NewsStephen Chbosky
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dear Evan HansenDavid Cronenberg
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Maps to the StarsJohn Harrison
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tales from the Darkside: The MovieKimberly Peirce
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CarriePaul Weitz
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Being FlynnAtom Egoyan
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ChloeLee Tamahori
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NextIvan Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EvolutionJoe Wright
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Woman in the WindowBjörn Stein
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
6 SoulsGeorge Clooney
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SuburbiconPeter Howitt
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Laws of AttractionLuca Guadagnino
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Staggering GirlChris Columbus
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nine MonthsCraig Zisk
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The English TeacherReginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Ladies ManJoe Roth
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FreedomlandGus Van Sant
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PsychoUli Edel
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Body of EvidenceSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Big Lebowski
as Maude Lebowski
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Single Man
as Charley
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Big Lebowski
as Maude Lebowski
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Fugitive
as Anne Eastman
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Big Lebowski
as Maude Lebowski
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Julianne Moore has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
36 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
44 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Big Lebowski
as Maude Lebowski
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Children of Men
as Julian
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Gloria Bell
as Gloria Bell
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Woman in the Window
as Jane Russell 1 (Katie)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Children of Men
as Julian
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as President Alma Coin
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
as Emily
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Big Lebowski
as Maude Lebowski
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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