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From Role to Reality: How Julianne Moore’s Time as Gloria Steinem Reshaped Her Worldview

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25 Jul '25
By The Shift
25 Jul '25
By The Shift

The Shift highlights women’s stories through the lens of impact. It hopes to contextualize history and inspire action.

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Julianne Moore is an Academy Award–winning actress celebrated for powerful roles in films like Still Alice, Boogie Nights, and Far from Heaven. With a decades-long career, she’s also a passionate advocate for gun safety, women’s rights, and diversity in storytelling both on and off screen.

The Shift:

Name 3 women that inspire you

Julianne:

Charlotte Perriand

Stacey Abrams 

Agnes Varda

 

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The Shift:

What is one defining moment in your career or life that empowered you to create change, and how has it shaped the path you’re on today?

Julianne:

The time I spent studying Gloria Steinem in order to play her was one of the most edifying of my life.  Everything I watched, everything I read, everything I observed about her gave me a template for how I wanted to behave.  Her honesty, her tolerance, her patience,and her insistence on humanism and inclusion as she moves through the world offers us all a moral roadmap. If I’m ever in a pickle and wonder how to conduct myself, I just think “What would Gloria do?”

 

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Julianne Moore is honored as part of The Shift’s “90 Plus One” list, which recognizes influential women shaping contemporary culture. With Gloria Steinem featured on the inaugural print cover, the list pays homage to her 91 years of activism by highlighting a powerhouse community of women shifting culture.