Celebrity Christmas cards designed by Julianne Moore to help raise funds for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

What’s not to love about Julianne Moore? She’s active in a number of charitable organizations including the AmberWatch Foundation, Save the Children, Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance, and Hope for the Holidays, a charity created by Yahoo! and Old Navy to raise funds for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. One of the creative ways this charity raises funds is through a campaign that offers Christmas cards designed by celebrities for sale to the public. Julianne Moore designed Christmas cards for Hope for the Holidays; her design featured several randomly placed star-topped evergreen trees with a red cursive “Merry Christmas” sentiment. From the looks of her celebrity Christmas card, Moore is no artist, but I always find it inspiring when celebrities donate their time, money, and talent to charitable causes. Moore is certainly one of these celebrities whose heart is as big as her talent.

Julianne Moore was born on December 3, 1960 in Fayetteville, North Carolina at Fort Bragg. Her mother was a psychiatric social worker from Scotland while her father was a colonel in the U.S. Army. Growing up in a military family, she along with her younger sister and brother, lived in several places across the United States and Germany. Moore graduated from Frankfurt American High School in Frankfurt, Germany in 1979. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Boston University in 1983. In 1984 she made a brief appearance on the daytime soap opera, The Edge of Night, and the following year began a three year stint on As the World Turns.

I remember the first time I took notice of Julianne Moore was in the 1995 romantic comedy, Nine Months, with British actor Hugh Grant. I thought what a strikingly attractive woman she is with her red hair and fair complexion. To me she is a classic beauty…and talented to boot. I’ve been a fan of hers since and have seen a few of her feature films, none of which have been a disappointment.

Charity Christmas card designed by Patricia Arquette for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

Perhaps she saw it in a dream? Patricia Arquette, now a household name due to her fame on the hit TV show Medium, took some time out from her busy schedule to design this Christmas card that joined a long list of other hand-illustrated celebrity Christmas cards for a special Hope for the Holidays campaign created by Yahoo and Old Navy. This brightly colored Christmas card features a collage of ordinary snowflake cutouts with the greeting Eid Mubarak, which is a Muslim phrase that is used to congratulate one another during their festivals.

Patricia Arquette was born in the Windy City but raised in Virginia and California. Arquette’s mother was Jewish and her father was a convert to Islam. Her entire family is steeped in talent. All of her siblings – David (and sister in-law Courteney Cox), Rosanna, Richmond and Alexis – have pursued acting careers. Patricia got her start in the biz at the age of 18 and has had a long run of steady work including such hit movies as Ed Wood, Stigmata, Flirting with Disaster and Wildflower. She is currently going into her fifth season in her star role as Allison DuBois on Medium for which she won the Emmy Award in 2005 for Outstanding Lead Actress.

Patricia has not been as lucky in love having gone through divorces with both Nicolas Cage and Thomas Jane. She had a daughter with Thomas Jane and also has a son from a previous relationship with musician Paul Rossi.

The Christmas card that Patricia designed helped to raise funds and awareness for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. This foundation was born of one of the most powerful forces, a mother’s love. Elizabeth contracted AIDS when receiving a blood transfusion during the birth of her daughter. Both her daughter and her son also contracted the virus through her. The foundation has one mission: to bring hope to children with AIDS.