Few actors have so willingly put themselves through as many emotional grinders as Julianne Moore.

In 1993's Short Cuts, the Robert Altman film that first brought her critical notice, she delivered a rousing monologue in which her character admits to infidelity while wearing nothing below the waist. In 1997's Boogie Nights, the darkly comedic drama that would land her the first five of Oscar nominations, she plays one of the most tragic figures, an aging, coke-snorting porn star who longs for the son that ran away from her.

The year 2002 marked a double whammy, with Moore earning Oscar noms for playing two disparate yet distraught housewives, one who almost commits suicide and then leaves her family in The Hours, and another who grapples with the fact that her husband is gay in Far From Heaven. Moore later won an Academy Award for her gut-wrenching portrayal of a woman slipping into dementia caused by ALS in 2014's Still Alice.

In her latest film, After the Wedding, a remake of the 2006 Danish Oscar nominee that's written and directed by her husband Bart Freundlich, Moore's media power broker Theresa (who promises to fund Michelle Williams's orphanage in India with some strings attached) is hardly the most sympathetic character. But she undoubtedly own's the film's most utterly devastating scene.

Those roles, however, are merely a sampling of her deeply impressive and eclectic body of work, which have also included mainstream hits like The Lost World: Jurassic Park and The Hunger Games sequels.

In our latest episode of Role Recall, the celebrated 58-year-old performer talks about her humble beginnings on the soap opera As the World Turns and the horror film Tales from the Darkside (1990), how some of her most memorable films (The Big Lebowski, The Hours, Far From Heaven) were shot while she was pregnant with her two children, and her favorite moment with a "resentful" Jennifer Lawrence on the set of The Hunger Games.

Some highlights:

Julianne Moore in 'As the World Turns' More

As the World Turns (1985-88)

After beginning her career off-Broadway, Moore caught her first big break when she was cast in dual roles as half-sisters Frannie and Sabrina Hughes (the latter evil, natch) in the long-running CBS soap opera that ended in 2010. "I don't know if I would call myself a soap star, but I felt really lucky to have a job, to be a working actor. So it was a very big deal that I was able to go to work every day and I could support myself, and I worked with a lot of really terrific people. Marisa Tomei was on the show when I was there. We played best friends."

Moore divulged the most bonkers arc that her character(s) endured during her three-year run, and it was sufficiently soapy: "One of the plots that was so terrible, I remember the bad one slept with the good one's boyfriend and the boyfriend said that it was dark and he couldn't tell the difference. And I thought, that's terrible!"

Boogie Nights (1997)

Paul Thomas Anderson's beloved drama about the porn industry in 1970s Los Angeles featured an incredible ensemble cast that also included Mark Wahlberg, Heather Graham, John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle, William H. Macy and the late actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Burt Reynolds. "We were all pretty close," she said. "It was interesting working with Burt. Because here was this guy who had been the biggest box-office star in the world in the '70s, and we were making this little movie — then it was a little movie in the '90s, and we were all in honey wagons — and I watched how good-naturedly he handled the entire thing. That was pretty remarkable."

Julianne Moore in 'The Big Lebowski' More