American actress with flowing auburn hair and a Pre-Raphaelite face, highly acclaimed for her ability to inhabit her character, the kind of actress who can disappear virtually into her characterization. Not afraid of nudity or of expanding her horizons in new roles, she was first acclaimed for her role as Amber Waves in the 1997 hit “Boogie Nights,” a film about the adult film industry for which she won her first Oscar nomination as Best Actress. In 1990, she made a film debut in “Tales From the Darkside: the Movie.” During the ‘90s, she made 24 movies, closing the decade with another great performance in “A Map of the World.” Other films included “Magnolia,” “Vanya on 42nd Street and “The End of the Affair,” which brought in another Oscar nomination. Ten years after “Silence of the Lambs,” Moore took the role of agent Clarice Starling in “Hannibal,” 2001.
The daughter of a military judge and a psychiatric social worker, Moore was raised with two-dozen moves around the world. A bookworm who aimed to study either law or medicine, she was suddenly pretty at 16 and new options became feasible. After earning a B.A. at Boston University, to her parent’s alarm, she took up acting. Moving to New York, within a short while she was a regular on “As The World Turns” for there years, winning a daytime Emmy for her performance. She played in many TV roles along with off-Broadway theater during the ‘80s.
Moore married her actor boyfriend, John Gould Rubin, and they lived in a New York loft in the mid-‘80s during their short-term union. While filming “The Myth of Fingerprints,” 1996, she met her future lover, nine-year-younger writer-director Bart Freundlich and after the conclusion of shooting, they moved in together. In 1998 she had their son, Caleb and daughter Liv was born in March 2002.
Moore’s sci-fi comedy, “Evolution” was released 6/08/2001.
The four-time Academy Award nominee wed director Bart Freundlich on August 23,2003 at their Greenwich Village home in New York City.
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