Director Todd Haynes gave Moore her first opportunity to take on a lead role in Safe, where she plays a housewife who develops an inexplicable allergic reaction to her existence.

As Hugh Grant's pregnant girlfriend in Nine Months, Moore finds her way into romantic comedy while also starring with Robin Williams--the couple's sweet, but incompetant Russian doctor.

Following films included Assassins where she played an electronics security expert and Surviving Picasso (1996) where she played Dora Maar.

Such was Moore's acting career--a slow but rising career nonetheless. Her career had not sky-rocketed nor suffered from her many pivotal but minor roles in off-beat independent films. However, all would change in 1997.

While her name in Hollywood was well-known, she didn't gain named audience recognition until...