Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore ("Far From Heaven," "A Single Man") returns to one of her earliest roles on the CBS daytime drama AS THE WORLD TURNS, Monday, April 5 on the CBS Television Network.  Moore appeared on the show from 1985-1988, playing half-sisters Frannie and Sabrina Hughes, roles that earned her a Daytime Emmy Award in 1988.  She will appear as Frannie Hughes, who returns to Oakdale to celebrate her father and stepmother's wedding anniversary.

Moore was most recently seen in "A Single Man," the feature film debut of fashion designer Tom Ford, which also stars Colin Firth and earned her a 2010 Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress.  She will next be seen in Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right," a film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010; Atom Egoyan's "Chloe," which premiered at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival; as well as "Shelter," an independent psychological thriller, directed by Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein.

Moore is the ninth person in Academy history to receive two acting Oscar nominations in the same year for her performances in "Far From Heaven" (Best Actress nomination) and "The Hours" (Best Supporting Actress nomination).  She was the recipient of many critics' honors for her performance in "Far From Heaven," directed by Todd Haynes, including the National Board of Review, Los Angeles Film Critics and Broadcast Film Critics, among others.  She won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film and received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations in the same category.  Among numerous honors for her performance in "The Hours," she received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in addition to her Oscar nomination.

Moore's film credits also include: "Blindness," directed by Fernando Meirelles; "Savage Grace," directed by Tom Kalin; Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There;" Alfonso Cuaron's "Children Of Men;" "Next;" Joe Roth's "Freedomland;" Joe Ruben's "The Forgotten;" "Laws Of Attraction;" "The Prize Winner Of Defiance, Ohio;" Lasse Hallstrom's "The Shipping News;" Bart Freundlich's "Trust The Man," "World Traveler"  and "The Myth Of Fingerprints;" "Hannibal;" "Evolution;" Neil Jordan's "The End Of The Affair" (Academy Award, Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations for Best Actress); Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights" (Academy Award, Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress) and "Magnolia" (SAG Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress); Robert Altman's "Cookie's Fortune" and "Short Cuts" (Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Female); Gus Van Sant's re-make of "Psycho;" "An Ideal Husband" (Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress); "The Map Of The World;" Steven Spielberg's "The Lost World;" "The Big Lebowski" directed by the Coen Brothers; the Todd Haynes film "Safe" (Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead); Louis Malle's "Vanya On 42^nd Street;" James Ivory's "Surviving Picasso;" "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle;" "Benny & Joon;" "The Fugitive;" "Nine Months;" and "Assassins."

Moore's additional honors include the Excellence in Media Award at the 2004 GLAAD Media Awards, the Actor Award at the 2002 Gotham Awards and the "Tribute to Independent Vision" at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.

After earning her B.F.A. from Boston University for the Performing Arts, Moore starred in a number of off-Broadway productions, including Caryl Churchill's "Serious Money" and "Ice Cream/Hot Fudge" at the Public Theater.  She appeared in Minneapolis in the Guthrie Theater's "Hamlet," and participated in workshop productions of Strindberg's "The Father" with Al Pacino and Wendy Wasserstein's "An American Daughter" with Meryl Streep.  Moore made her Broadway debut in 2006 in the Sam Mendes production of "The Vertical Hour," an original play written by David Hare. 

AS THE WORLD TURNS is a Procter & Gamble Productions program and tapes in Brooklyn, New York.  Christopher Goutman is the Executive Producer.  The show can be seen weekdays on the CBS Television Network. (Check local listings).  

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