DHAKA: Julianne Moore won the best actress prize at the 67th Cannes Film Festival Saturday for her role as a shallow starlet in Canadian director David Cronenberg’s biting Hollywood satire ‘Maps to the Stars’.

In the film, the 53-year-old redhead plays an ageing actress feeling increasingly sidelined by an industry obsessed with youth.

When the young son of a rival for new film role is killed in a freak drowning accident, Moore does a dance of joy that remained one of the enduring shocks of this year’s festival.

‘Vive Los Angeles, Vive David Cronenberg, vive Julie Moore et vive la France,’ the film's screenwriter, Bruce Wagner, said as he picked up the trophy for Moore, who was not in Cannes.

Moore has played everything from a porn star to an FBI agent over a two-decade big screen career that has already brought four Oscar nominations, two Golden Globes and a Primetime Emmy to her name.

Her best-known films include 1998’s ‘The Big Lebowski’, ‘Crazy Stupid Love’ (2011) as well as ‘The Hours’ and ‘Far From Heaven’, both from 2002.

Those last two helped her join the elite club of actors to score two Oscar nominations for different films in the same year. She also scored Academy Award nods for ‘Boogie Nights’ (1997) and ‘The End of the Affair’ (1999).

Moore won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for portraying Sarah Palin in 2012's ‘Game Change’, about Republican John McCain’s doomed 2008 White House run with the former Alaska governor as his gaffe-prone running mate, reports breitbart.com.

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