Julianne Moore Wiki, Education, Personal Life

Julianne Moore was born on 3 December 1960 as Julie Anne Smith at the Fort Bragg Army installation in North Carolina. Her father Peter Moore Smith, a paratrooper in the United States Army during the Vietnam War, attained the rank of colonel and became a military judge. Her mother Anne, was a British psychologist and social worker from Greenock, Scotland.

Her family lived in multiple locations, including Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Panama, Nebraska, Alaska, New York, and Virginia, and Moore attended nine different schools. At the age of 16, the family moved from Falls Church, Virginia, where Moore was attending J.E.B. Stuart High School, to Frankfurt, West Germany, where she attended Frankfurt American High School.

Moore chose to pursue a theatrical career and her parents supported her decision but asked that she train at university to provide the added security of a college degree. She was accepted into Boston University and graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre.