Julia Fiona Roberts was born on October 28,1967 and is an American actress.
64 Facts About Julia Roberts
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Julia Roberts starred in numerous commercially successful films throughout the 1990s, including the cult romantic comedies My Best Friend's Wedding, Notting Hill and Runaway Bride, before winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the biographical drama Erin Brockovich.
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Julia Roberts received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the HBO television film The Normal Heart, had her first regular television role in the first season of the Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series Homecoming, and portrayed Martha Mitchell in the Starz political limited series Gaslit.
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Julia Roberts has acted as the global ambassador for Lancome since 2009.
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Julia Roberts was the world's highest-paid actress throughout the majority of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s.
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Julia Roberts was born on October 28,1967, in Smyrna, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, to Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Julia Roberts.
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Julia Roberts is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent.
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Julia Roberts's father was a Baptist, her mother a Catholic, and she was raised Catholic.
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Julia Roberts's mother filed for divorce in 1971; the divorce was finalized in early 1972.
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From 1972, Julia Roberts lived in Smyrna, Georgia, where she attended Fitzhugh Lee Elementary School, Griffin Middle School, and Campbell High School.
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Julia Roberts later headed to New York City to pursue a career in acting.
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Julia Roberts had filmed a small role in 1987 opposite her brother Eric, in Blood Red, though she only had two words of dialogue, and it was not released until 1989.
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In 1988, Julia Roberts had a role in the fourth-season finale of Miami Vice and her first critical success with moviegoers came with the independent romantic comedy Mystic Pizza, in which she played a Portuguese-American teenage girl working as a waitress at a pizza parlor.
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In Steel Magnolias, a film adaptation of Robert Harling's 1987 play of the same name, Julia Roberts starred as a young bride with diabetes, alongside Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine and Daryl Hannah.
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The filmmakers were looking at both Laura Dern and Winona Ryder when the casting director insisted they see Julia Roberts, who was then filming Mystic Pizza.
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Nevertheless, the film was a critical and commercial darling when it was released, and Julia Roberts received both her first Academy Award nomination and first Golden Globe Award win Motion Picture for her performance.
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Julia Roberts won the role after Michelle Pfeiffer, Molly Ringwald, Meg Ryan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Karen Allen, and Daryl Hannah turned it down.
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The red dress Julia Roberts wore in the film has been considered one of the most famous gowns in cinema.
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In 1991, Julia Roberts played a battered wife attempting to begin a new life in Iowa in the thriller Sleeping with the Enemy, a winged, six-inch-tall tomboyish Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg's fantasy film Hook and an outgoing yet cautious nurse in her second collaboration with director Joel Schumacher, the romance drama Dying Young.
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Julia Roberts took a two-year hiatus from the screen, during which she made no films other than a cameo appearance in Robert Altman's The Player.
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Julia Roberts starred with Denzel Washington in the thriller The Pelican Brief, based on John Grisham's 1992 novel of the same name.
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In 1998, Julia Roberts appeared on the television series Sesame Street opposite the character Elmo, and starred in the drama Stepmom, alongside Susan Sarandon, revolving around the complicated relationship between a terminally-ill mother and the future stepmother of her children.
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Julia Roberts paired with Hugh Grant for Notting Hill, portraying a famous actress who falls in love with a struggling book store owner.
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Julia Roberts's performance earned her a nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
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Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote, "Julia Roberts shows the emotional toll on Erin as she tries to stay responsible to her children and to a job that has provided her with a first taste of self-esteem", while Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman felt that it was a "delight to watch Julia Roberts, with her flirtatious sparkle and undertow of melancholy".
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In Joe Roth's romantic comedy America's Sweethearts, Julia Roberts starred as the once-overweight sister and assistant of a Hollywood actress, along with Billy Crystal, John Cusack, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Julia Roberts played Tess Ocean, the ex-wife of leader Danny Ocean, originally played by Angie Dickinson.
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Julia Roberts received a record $25 million, the highest ever earned by an actress at that time, to portray a forward-thinking art history professor at Wellesley College in 1953, in Mike Newell's drama Mona Lisa Smile.
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In 2004, Julia Roberts replaced Cate Blanchett in the role of an American photographer for Mike Nichols's film Closer, a romantic drama written by Patrick Marber, based on his award-winning 1997 play of the same name, co-starring Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen.
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Julia Roberts next reprised the role of Tess Ocean in Ocean's Twelve, which was deliberately much more unconventional than the first film, epitomized by a sequence in which Roberts's character impersonates the real-life Julia Roberts, due to what the film's characters believe is their strong resemblance.
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Julia Roberts appeared in The Hollywood Reporter's list of the 10 highest-paid actresses every year from 2002 to 2005.
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In 2006, Julia Roberts voiced a nurse ant in The Ant Bully and a barn spider in Charlotte's Web.
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Julia Roberts made her Broadway debut on April 19,2006, as Nan in a revival of Richard Greenberg's 1997 play Three Days of Rain opposite Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd.
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Julia Roberts played a CIA agent collaborating with another spy to carry out a complicated con, opposite Clive Owen, in the comic thriller Duplicity.
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Julia Roberts has almost entirely left behind the coltish, America's-sweetheart mannerisms, except when she uses them strategically, to disarm or confuse.
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Julia Roberts received her seventh Golden Globe nomination for her role.
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In 2010, Julia Roberts played a US Army captain on a one-day leave, as part of a large ensemble cast, in the romantic comedy Valentine's Day, and starred as an author finding herself following a divorce in the film adaptation of Eat Pray Love.
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Julia Roberts appeared as the teacher of a middle-aged man returning to education in the romantic comedy Larry Crowne, opposite Tom Hanks, who served as the director.
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In Mirror Mirror, the Tarsem Singh adaptation of Snow White, Julia Roberts portrayed Queen Clementianna, Snow White's evil stepmother, opposite Lily Collins.
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In 2013, Julia Roberts starred alongside Meryl Streep and Ewan McGregor in the black comedy drama August: Osage County, about a dysfunctional family that re-unites into the familial house when their patriarch suddenly disappears.
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Julia Roberts's performance earned her nominations for the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics' Choice Award, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, amongst other accolades.
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Julia Roberts's role garnered her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
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Julia Roberts starred as a grieving mother opposite Nicole Kidman and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Secret in Their Eyes, a remake of the 2009 Argentine film of the same name, both based on the novel La pregunta de sus ojos by author Eduardo Sacheri.
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In 2016, Julia Roberts reunited with Garry Marshall and reportedly received a $3 million fee for a four-day shoot, playing an accomplished author who gave her child for adoption, in the romantic comedy Mother's Day, which had a lackluster critical and commercial response.
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In Wonder, the film adaptation of the 2012 novel of the same name by R J Palacio, Roberts played the mother of a boy with Treacher Collins syndrome.
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Julia Roberts portrayed the mother of a troubled young man in Peter Hedges's drama Ben Is Back.
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Julia Roberts reunited with George Clooney for the romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise, which was released by Universal Pictures on October 21,2022.
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Julia Roberts played Martha Mitchell, a controversial figure throughout the Watergate scandal, in the political thriller television series Gaslit, based on the first season of the podcast Slow Burn by Leon Neyfakh.
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Julia Roberts will appear as Amanda in the upcoming film Leave the World Behind, appearing alongside Ethan Hawke.
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Julia Roberts has contributed to UNICEF as well as other charitable organizations.
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In 2000, Julia Roberts narrated a documentary about Rett syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder, designed to help raise public awareness about the disease, and in 2014, she was the voice of Mother Nature in a short film for Conservation International intended to raise awareness about climate change.
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In 2006, Julia Roberts signed an endorsement deal with fashion label Gianfranco Ferre, valued at $6 million.
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Julia Roberts was photographed by Mario Testino in Los Angeles for the brand's advertising campaign, which was distributed in Europe, Asia and Australia.
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Since 2009, Julia Roberts has acted as Lancome's global ambassador, a role in which she has been involved in the development and promotion of the brand's range of cosmetics and beauty products.
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Julia Roberts initially signed a five-year extension with the company for $50 million in 2010.
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Julia Roberts is a distant cousin of fellow actor Edward Norton.
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Julia Roberts had romantic relationships with actors Jason Patric, Liam Neeson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, and Matthew Perry.
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Julia Roberts was briefly engaged to Sutherland; they broke up three days before their scheduled wedding on June 11,1991.
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Julia Roberts filed for divorce a little over a year later, and after it was finalized, he and Roberts wed on July 4,2002, at her ranch in Taos, New Mexico.
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In 2010, Julia Roberts said she was Hindu, having converted for "spiritual satisfaction".
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Julia Roberts is a devotee of the guru Neem Karoli Baba, a picture of whom drew Julia Roberts to Hinduism.
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In September 2009, Swami Daram Dev of Ashram Hari Mandir in Pataudi, where Julia Roberts was shooting Eat Pray Love, gave her children new names after Hindu gods: Laxmi for Hazel, Ganesh for Phinnaeus and Krishna Balram for Henry.
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Julia Roberts has received four Academy Award nominations, winning for Best Actress at the 73rd Academy Awards, for her titular portrayal in Erin Brockovich, which additionally earned her a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Julia Roberts won Golden Globe Awards for her performances in Steel Magnolias and Pretty Woman, and as of 2019, has garnered eight nominations.