Every Julianne Hough movie and TV show, ranked

The best Julianne Hough Movies and TV shows mostly offer successful musical and dance performances and some comedies and thrillers that don’t quite match up. Hough and her brother Derek Hough got big breaks thanks to their dancing skills. They grew up with dancing in their family as all four of their grandparents were dancers, and the duo achieved worldwide acclaim when they took their dancing to the hugely popular ABC competition series Dancing with the stars.

Derek Hough won the Mirror Ball Trophy on Dancing with the stars Six times, while Julian won it twice and they both remain on the show as a judge and host respectively. But, unlike dirt, Hough decided to try her hand at acting outside of the world of dance. But, as expected, many of her choices ended up in musical movies like Footloose Or movies surrounding dance like Burlesque. She has limited film and television experience in the last few years but has a nice catalog of work to her name.

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curve (2015)

Julianne Hough played Mallory Rutledge

One of Julianne Hough’s lesser known movies is the horror thriller Curve. The film is from Blumhouse, although it never touched the level of the studio’s other films like Evil, the cleaningAnd Insidious. Directed by Iain Softley (The Skeleton Key), Julianne Hough stars as Mallory Rutledge, a bride-to-be who is on her way to her wedding rehearsal when her car breaks down. A hitchhiker helps her fix it, and then when she gives him a ride out of gratitude, the unimaginable happens..

The man threatens her, and she crashes her car to try to kill him to escape, but she ends up trapped in the car while he is still alive and begins torturing her as she is trapped and injured. Despite Blumhouse’s success with horror movies, this one never made it to theaters. After debuting at Fright Fest 2015, Universal released it via VOD. It is one of the rare Hough movies with no critical score on Rotten Tomatoes, although it has one positive and one negative review. It has a 27% audience score.

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Dirty Grandpa (2016)

Julianne Hough played Meredith Goldstein

Julianne Hough stars in the movie Dirty GrandpaA 2016 comedy directed by Sacha Baron Cohen’s long-time writing partner, Dan Mazer. The main stars of the film are Robert De Niro and Zac Efron, as an American military veteran and his grandson, a corporate lawyer, and a road they take from Atlanta to Florida. The film is a buddy comedy with the grandfather as the wild man who always wants to party and the grandson is hungry while engaged to a domineering woman at home.

Julianne Hough plays Meredith, the fiance at homewho has his own secrets and is not as good a person as she likes. The movie ended up being a box office success, making $105.1 million on an $11.5 million budget (via Box Office Mojo). It was also a film that had a big discrepancy between the critics and the audience. Hough’s role is relatively small but she does a strong job of playing the unlikeable girlfriend.

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Paradise (2013)

Julianne Hough played Lamb Mannerhelm

In 2013, Julianne Hough teamed up with Diablo Cody for the movie heavenWhich is also known as Lamb of God. Cody made her name as a screenwriter in movies like Juno And Jennifer’s bodyHowever heaven was her directorial debut. Paradise, Nevada, is an unincorporated city that is where the Las Vegas Strip is located. In the movie, a young woman named Lam Mannerhelm goes to speak at her family’s church in Montana after surviving a plane crash and denounces God to the church.

Julianne Hough plays Lam Mannerhelm, the young woman who then leaves Montana and her family and moves to Las Vegas to live a life of sin that her strict upbringing once objected to. While there, she meets a bartender (Russell Brand) and a singer (Octavia Spencer) and begins to figure out her next step in the world. Even if the reviews aren’t glowing, it’s a good chance to see Hough in a leading role.

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Safe Haven (2013)

Julianne Hough played Katie Feldman/Erin Tierney

In 2013, Julianne Hough took on a role in a Nicholas Sparks adaptation. Anyone familiar with Sparks knows what to expect, as his stories are all romantic dramas and almost all of them have depressing moments, or satisfying endings despite being mired in tragedy. The movie stars Julianne Hough as a woman who runs from the police while covered in blood And then referred to in another city, using a different name. She meets a man (Josh Duhamel) and the two end up falling in love.

However, wanted posters begin to go up and claim that the Boston police are looking for her in connection with a murder, and things begin to become dangerous for the man she fell in love with his children. The movie has fantastic elements, and it is unlike many other Sparks movies because the tragedies all happen before the film starts, and this allows it to remain only a love story. Critics hated it, with a lousy score of 13%, but the audience score was much higher at 67%, not unusual for Nicholas Sparks films.

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Burlesque (2010)

Julianne Hough played Georgia

when Burlesque Released in 2010, there were high hopes for this movie. The musical film was sold on the backs of its two stars, Cher and Christina Aguilera. Cher is Tess, a burlesque club owner, and Ellie is a young woman new to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a star. The film is mostly about Tess trying to save her club and Ali navigating life in the big city, both with her work at the club and her romantic life. As with many of her movies, Julianne Hough is a dancer.

Hough plays Georgia, one of the main burlesque dancers at Tess’s club. However, her character becomes pregnant and ends up having to step down, which is what leads to Ellie getting her spot on the team. The music of the movie was almost more successful than the film itself. Burlesque Ended up with a small profit but its soundtrack ended up being certified gold. The film received poor reviews, but still won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.

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Rock Of Ages (2012)

Julianne Hough played Sherry Christian

Stone of ages is an interesting movie. It is based on the Rock Jukebox Broadway musical by Chris D’Arienzo and features music by some of the biggest hair bands of the 1980s. While the musical was a massive success, sold primarily on the back of the familiar songs, the movie based on it ended up being a bit polarizing. It has the same idea, taking all the great hair metal songs and putting them in a story about A small town girl who moves to Los Angeles from Oklahoma in 1987 with dreams of becoming a star.

Julianne Hough takes on the lead role of the small-town girl named Sherrie Christian. When her suitcase is stolen as soon as she arrives, she gets a job as a waitress at the Bourbon Room and tries to achieve her musical dreams. The cast was great, with Tom Cruise, Alex Baldwin, Mary J. Blige, Paul Giamatti, and more. The songs were from Poison, Night Ramger, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, and more. Stone of ages was a box office flop with a 42% Rotten Tomatoes score, but fans awarded it a 55% fresh rating.

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Dancing with the Stars (2007-)

Julianne Hough played herself

Easily, the most notable role that Julianne Hough ever portrayed on television was as herself on the reality competition series Dancing with the stars. The ABC series brings in celebrities from movies, TV shows, reality TV, the sports world, and more and they learn how to do different dances where they compete for the audience to vote the winners. Hough worked as a pro on the show for five seasons and is now one of the hostsAlong with Alfonso Ribeiro.

In her first two seasons as a Dancing with the stars Pro, she won the Mirror Ball Trophy, the first time with Olympian Apolo Ohno and the second with race car driver Helio Castroneves. In her next three seasons, she finished in 9th, 4th and 6th place. Since then, she has served as a guest judge for several seasons before taking on the role of co-host. She also won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography, an award she shares with her brother Derek Hough and Tessandra Chavez.

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Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings (2019)

Julianne Hough played Jolene

Heartstrings is an anthology series that tells the stories behind many of Dolly Parton’s most iconic songs. Each episode tells a different story, with a new cast, and they all focus individually on both favorite songs and some that are not so famous. The episodes include The Old Bones, JJ Sneed, Sugar Hill, Down from Dover, Cracker Jack, If I Had Wings, Two Doors DownAnd Jolin. Easily the most famous song on the list is JolinAnd this is the episode in Julianne Hough.

“Jolene” is the first episode of the anthology series and Julianne Hough plays the title character, an attractive young bartender/singer-songwriter who befriends a woman named Emily (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), but when she sets her eyes on Emily’s husband, Aaron (Dallas Roberts), Emily starts to become insecure. The Rotten Tomatoes score is only an average of 54%, but this is a show that the fans loved, with an extremely high 94% Fresh Popcornmeter score.

Julianne Hough played Ariel Moore

The most notable movie appearance for Julianne Hough is likely the 2011 remake of Footloose. The original movie stars Kevin Bacon as a young man who moves to a new town that prohibits dancing for religious reasons. However, soon he sweeps the high school community off his charge with his moves and when a preacher’s daughter falls for him, things spiral out of control. The remake stars Kenny Wornald in the Bacon role, with Hough starring as the preacher’s daughter.

The film has some deeper issues, like the city’s draconian laws were created when the preacher’s son died in an accident after a night of partying, so he wanted to protect his daughter and her classmates. However, the draw of the movie is still the dance scenes, which made Hough a great choice for the female lead. The film had a 68% Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score and ended up being a minor financial success.

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Long live! (2016)

Julianne Hough played Sandy

In 2016, NBC put on a huge special called Long live! It was a remake of the classic 1978 musical movie that became a Broadway play. What made it special was that the cast performed the play live on television, directed by Tony-winning stage play director Thomas Kail. Julianne Hough took on the role made famous by Olivia Newton-John in the original movie, the female lead Sandy Young. Sandy is a conservative young woman who meets the greaser Danny Zuko and changes over the course of the story.

Aaron Tveit (who later won a Tony for the Broadway version of Mulin bug!) stars as Danny while some familiar faces also appear, including Vanessa Hudgens as Rizzo, Carly Rae Jepsen as Frenchy, and Keke Palmer as Marty. Boyz II Men, DNCE and Jessie J also appear as musical guests. Critics praised the TV special, awarding it a 92% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Long live! Also earned nine Emmy nominations, winning for Outstanding Special Class Program.