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Julia Roberts
Roberts in 2011
Born
Julia Fiona Roberts

(1967-10-28) October 28, 1967 (age 56)
Alma materGeorgia State University
OccupationActress
Years active1987–present
WorksFilmography
Spouses
(m. 1993; div. 1995)
(m. 2002)
Children3
Relatives
AwardsFull list

Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967)

leading actress when she headlined the top-grossing romantic comedy Pretty Woman
(1990).

She starred in numerous commercially successful films throughout the 1990s, including the romantic comedies

Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the HBO television film The Normal Heart (2014), had her first regular television role in the first season of the Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018), and portrayed Martha Mitchell in the Starz political limited series Gaslit
(2022).

In addition to acting, Roberts runs the production company Red Om Films, through which she has served as an executive producer for various projects she has starred in, as well as for the first four films of the American Girl franchise (2004–2008). She has acted as the global ambassador for Lancôme since 2009. She was the world's highest-paid actress throughout the majority of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s.[3][4][5] She received a then-unprecedented fees of $20 million and $25 million for her roles in Erin Brockovich (2000) and Mona Lisa Smile (2003), respectively. As of 2020, Roberts' net worth was estimated to be $250 million.[6] People magazine has named her the most beautiful woman in the world a record five times.[7]

Early life and family

Roberts was born on October 28, 1967, in

Atlanta,[8] to Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts.[8][9] She is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent.[10][11] Her father was a Baptist, her mother a Catholic,[12] and she was raised Catholic.[13][14] Her older brother Eric Roberts (born 1956), from whom she was estranged for several years until 2004, older sister Lisa Roberts Gillan (born 1965), and niece Emma Roberts, are also actors. She also had a younger half-sister named Nancy Motes.[citation needed
]

Roberts's parents, one-time actors and playwrights, met while performing in theatrical productions for the United States Armed Forces. They later co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop[15] in Atlanta, off Juniper Street in Midtown. They ran a children's acting school in Decatur, Georgia, while they were expecting Julia. The children of Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr. attended the school; Walter Roberts served as acting coach for their daughter, Yolanda.[16] In gratitude for his service running the only racially integrated theater troupe in the region and due to the Roberts' financial difficulties,[17] Coretta King paid the Roberts's hospital bill when Julia was born.[18][19][20]

Roberts' parents married in 1955. Her mother filed for divorce in 1971; the divorce was finalized in early 1972.

Campbell High School.[22] In 1972, her mother married Michael Motes, who was abusive and often unemployed; Roberts despised him.[23] The couple had a daughter, Nancy, who died at 37 on February 9, 2014, of an apparent drug overdose.[24] The marriage ended in 1983, with Betty Lou divorcing Motes on cruelty grounds; she had stated that marrying him was the biggest mistake of her life.[23] Roberts's own father died of cancer when she was ten.[25]

Roberts wanted to be a veterinarian as a child.[26] She played the clarinet in her school band.[27][28] After graduating from Smyrna's Campbell High School, she attended Georgia State University but did not graduate. She later headed to New York City to pursue a career in acting. Once there, she signed with the Click Modeling Agency and enrolled in acting classes.[29][30]

Career

1980s

Following her first television appearance as a juvenile rape victim in the first season of the series

Crime Story, with Dennis Farina, in the episode "The Survivor", broadcast on February 13, 1987, Roberts made her big screen debut with an appearance in the dramedy Satisfaction (1988), alongside Liam Neeson and Justine Bateman, as a band member looking for a summer gig. (She 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.) In 1988, 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,[31] in which she played a Portuguese-American teenage girl working as a waitress at a pizza parlor. Roger Ebert found Roberts to be a "major beauty with a fierce energy" and observed that the film "may someday become known for the movie stars it showcased back before they became stars. All of the young actors in this movie have genuine gifts".[32]

In Steel Magnolias (1989), a film adaptation of Robert Harling's 1987 play of the same name, Roberts starred as a young bride with diabetes, alongside Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine and Daryl Hannah. The filmmakers were looking at both Laura Dern and Winona Ryder when the casting director insisted they see Roberts, who was then filming Mystic Pizza.[33] Harling stated: "She walked into the room and that smile lit everything up and I said 'that's my sister', so she joined the party and she was magnificent".[33] Director Herbert Ross was notoriously tough on newcomer Roberts, with Sally Field admitting that he "went after Julia with a vengeance. This was pretty much her first big film".[33] Nevertheless, the film was a critical and commercial darling when it was released,[34] and Roberts received both her first Academy Award nomination (as Best Supporting Actress) and first Golden Globe Award win (Best Supporting Actress) Motion Picture for her performance.[31]

1990s

Catapulting on her 1989 Academy Award nomination, Roberts gained further notice from worldwide audiences when she starred with Richard Gere in the CinderellaPygmalionesque story, Pretty Woman, in 1990, playing an assertive freelance hooker with a heart of gold.[31] Roberts won the role after Michelle Pfeiffer, Molly Ringwald, Meg Ryan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Karen Allen, and Daryl Hannah (her co-star in Steel Magnolias) turned it down.[35] The role also earned her a second Oscar nomination, this time as Best Actress, and second Golden Globe Award win, as Best Actress – Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy).[31] She was paid $300,000 for the part.[36] Pretty Woman saw the highest number of ticket sales in the U.S. ever for a romantic comedy,[37] and made $463.4 million worldwide.[38] The red dress Roberts wore in the film has been considered one of the most famous gowns in cinema.[39][40][41]

Roberts at the 1990 Deauville American Film Festival

Her next film release following Pretty Woman was

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. Although negative reviews greeted her 1991 outings, Sleeping with the Enemy grossed $175 million,[43] Hook $300.9 million[44] and Dying Young $82.3 million[45]
globally.

Roberts took a two-year hiatus from the screen, during which she made appeared in no films other than a cameo appearance in

People magazine cover story asking, "What Happened to Julia Roberts?".[46] Roberts starred with Denzel Washington in the thriller The Pelican Brief (1993), based on John Grisham's 1992 novel of the same name.[31] In it, she played a young law student who uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger. The film was a commercial success, grossing $195.2 million worldwide.[47][48] None of her next film releases —I Love Trouble (1994), Prêt-à-Porter (1994) and Something to Talk About (1995)— were particularly well received by critics nor big box office draws.[49][50][51] In 1996, she guest-starred in the second season of Friends (episode 13, "The One After the Superbowl"),[52] and appeared with Liam Neeson in the historical drama Michael Collins,[31] portraying Kitty Kiernan, the fiancée of the assassinated Irish revolutionary leader. Stephen Frears' Mary Reilly, her other 1996 film, was a critical and commercial failure.[53][54]

By the late 1990s, Roberts enjoyed renewed success in the romantic comedy genre. In P. J. Hogan's My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), she starred opposite Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz and Rupert Everett, as a food critic who realizes she's in love with her best friend and tries to win him back after he decides to marry someone else. Considered to be one of the best romantic comedies of all time, Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an approval rating of 73% based on 59 reviews, with the critical consensus reading, "Thanks to a charming performance from Julia Roberts and a subversive spin on the genre, My Best Friend's Wedding is a refreshingly entertaining romantic comedy."[55][56][57] The film was a global box-office hit, earning $299.3 million.[58] In her next film, Richard Donner's political thriller Conspiracy Theory (1997), Roberts starred with Mel Gibson as a Justice Department attorney. Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle stated: "When all else fails, there are still the stars to look at—Roberts, who actually manages to do some fine acting, and Gibson, whose likability must be a sturdy thing indeed."[59] The film, nevertheless, grossed a respectable $137 million.[60] In 1998, Roberts appeared on the television series Sesame Street opposite the character Elmo, and starred in the drama Stepmom, alongside Susan Sarandon,[61] revolving around the complicated relationship between a terminally-ill mother and the future stepmother of her children. While reviews were mixed-to-positive,[61] the film made $159.7 million worldwide.[62]

Roberts paired with

Empire", a Season 9 episode of the television series Law & Order, with regular cast member Benjamin Bratt, who at the time, was her boyfriend. Her performance earned her a nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.[70]

2000s

Roberts became the first actress to be paid $20 million for a film,[71] when she took on the role of real-life environmental activist Erin Brockovich in her fight against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) of California, in Erin Brockovich (2000). Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote, "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",[72] while Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman felt that it was a "delight to watch Roberts, with her flirtatious sparkle and undertow of melancholy".[73] Erin Brockovich made $256.3 million worldwide,[74] and earned Roberts the Academy Award for Best Actress, among numerous other accolades. In 2000, she also became the first actress to make The Hollywood Reporter's list of the 50 most influential women in show business since the list had begun in 1992,[3] and her Shoelace Productions company received a deal with Joe Roth.[75]

Her first film following Erin Brockovich was the road gangster comedy

Tess Ocean, the ex-wife of leader Danny Ocean (Clooney), originally played by Angie Dickinson. A success with critics and at the box office alike, Ocean's Eleven became the fifth highest-grossing film of the year with a total of $450 million worldwide.[78]

Roberts in 2002

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

Dreamgirl" by the Dave Matthews Band. It was her first music video appearance.[85] Roberts appeared in The Hollywood Reporter's list of the 10 highest-paid actresses every year from 2002 (when the magazine began compiling its list) to 2005.[5]

In 2006, Roberts voiced a nurse ant in The Ant Bully and a barn spider in Charlotte's Web.[86][87] She 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. Although the play grossed nearly $1 million in ticket sales during its first week[88] and was a commercial success throughout its limited run, her performance drew criticism. Ben Brantley of The New York Times described Roberts as being fraught with "self-consciousness (especially in the first act) [and] only glancingly acquainted with the two characters she plays."[89] Brantley also criticized the overall production, writing that "it's almost impossible to discern its artistic virtues from this wooden and splintered interpretation, directed by Joe Mantello."[89] Writing in the New York Post, Clive Barnes declared, "Hated the play. To be sadly honest, even hated her. At least I liked the rain—even if three days of it can seem an eternity."[90] In Mike Nichols' biographical drama Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Roberts starred as socialite Joanne Herring, the love interest of Democratic Texas Congressman Charles Wilson, opposite Tom Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The film received considerable acclaim,[91] made $119.5 million worldwide,[92] and earned Roberts her sixth Golden Globe nomination.[93]

The independent drama

Golden Globe
nomination for her role.

2010s

Roberts at the French premiere of Eat Pray Love in 2010

In 2010, Roberts played a U.S. Army captain on a one-day leave, as part of a large ensemble cast, in the romantic comedy

Queen Clementianna, Snow White's evil stepmother, opposite Lily Collins.[103] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone felt that she tried "way too hard" in her role,[104] while Katey Rich of Cinema Blend observed that she "takes relish in her wicked [portrayal] but could have gone even further with it".[105]
Mirror Mirror made $183 million globally.

In 2013, Roberts starred alongside

Critics' Choice Award, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, amongst other accolades.[107][108][109][110] It was her fourth Academy Award nomination.[111] In 2014, Roberts starred as Dr. Emma Brookner, a character based on Dr. Linda Laubenstein,[112][113] in the television adaptation of Larry Kramer's AIDS-era play, The Normal Heart, which aired on HBO; the film was critically acclaimed and Vanity Fair, in its review, wrote: "Roberts, meanwhile, hums with righteous, Erin Brokovich-ian anger. Between this and August: Osage County, she's carving out a nice new niche for herself, playing brittle women who show their love and concern through explosive temper".[114] Her role garnered her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.[115]

Roberts narrated "Women in Hollywood", an episode of the second season of

Irish Times concluded that a "sound job" by the cast "can't quite shake the whiff of compromise that hangs around the project".[121] In 2016, 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.[122] Her next film release was Jodie Foster's thriller Money Monster, in which she starred as a television director, alongside George Clooney and Jack O'Connell.[123] Sandra Hall of The Sydney Morning Herald stated: "It may be Hollywood melodrama but it's top of the range, giving Clooney and Roberts every opportunity to demonstrate the value of star power."[124] The film made a respectable $93.3 million worldwide.[125][126]

Roberts attending the premiere of Homecoming at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival

In

Smurf leader in the animated film Smurfs: The Lost Village.[131]

Roberts portrayed the mother of a troubled young man in

Amazon Video in November 2018, garnered acclaim from critics, who concluded it was an "impressive small-screen debut" for Roberts that "balances its haunting mystery with a frenetic sensibility that grips and doesn't let go."[134][135] She received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama.[136]

2020s

Roberts reunited with George Clooney for the romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise, which was released by Universal Pictures on October 21, 2022.[137] She also 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.

Roberts also starred as Amanda Sandford in the 2023 film Leave the World Behind, appearing alongside Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali. The movie is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Rumaan Alam. The film is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's company, Higher Ground Productions.[138]

Other ventures

Philanthropy

Roberts has contributed to

UNICEF as well as other charitable organizations. Her six-day visit to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1995, as she said, "to educate myself",[139][140] was expected to trigger an outburst of donations —$10 million in aid was sought at the time— by UNICEF officials.[139][140] In 2006, she became a spokeswoman for Earth Biofuels as well as chair of the company's newly formed advisory board promoting the use of renewable fuels.[141] In 2013, she was part of a Gucci campaign, "Chime for Change", that aims to spread female empowerment.[142]

In 2000, Roberts narrated a documentary about Rett syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder,[143] designed to help raise public awareness about the disease, and in 2014, she was the voice of Mother Nature in a short film for the Conservation International campaign Nature Is Speaking, intended to raise awareness about climate change.[144]

Production company

Roberts runs the production company Red Om Films (Red Om is "Moder" spelled backwards, after her husband's last name[145]) with her sister, Lisa Roberts Gillan, and Marisa Yeres Gill.[146] Through Red Om, Roberts has served as an executive producer for various projects she has starred in such as Eat Pray Love and Homecoming, as well as for the first four films of the American Girl film series (based on the American Girl line of dolls), released between 2004 and 2008.

Endorsements

In 2006, Roberts signed an endorsement deal with fashion label

Gianfranco Ferre, valued at $6 million. She was photographed by Mario Testino in Los Angeles for the brand's advertising campaign, which was distributed in Europe, Asia and Australia.[147] Since 2009, Roberts has acted as Lancôme'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.[148] She initially signed a five-year extension with the company for $50 million in 2010.[149] Roberts starred as the global face of Chopard's Happy Sport and Happy Diamonds collections campaigns since 2021 and then Chopard had announced her as its Global Brand Ambassador in 2023.[150]

In 2024, Julia Roberts expanded her creative horizon by collaborating with Chopard on a high jewelry collection, 'Chopard x Julia Roberts.' The collection celebrated the 'Insofu Emerald,' a significant gemstone, showcasing Roberts' design influence alongside Chopard's renowned craftsmanship. This venture highlighted a shared dedication to sustainability within luxury jewelry, marking a significant blend of celebrity influence and ethical luxury. The collaboration, unveiled in Los Angeles, underscored Roberts' multifaceted career and her ongoing contributions beyond the film industry, integrating her passions for creativity, sustainability, and high fashion.[151]

Personal life

Ancestry

On a 2023 episode of Finding Your Roots, Roberts learned that the surname of her biological paternal great-great-grandfather was actually Mitchell, not Roberts.[152]

Roberts also learned her ancestors owned slaves: "You have to figure, if you are from the South, you're on one side of it or the other. It just seems very typical of that time, unfortunately. ... You can't turn your back on history, even when you become a part of it in a way that doesn't align with your personal compass."[153]

Roberts is a distant cousin of fellow actor Edward Norton.[154]

Relationships and family

Roberts had romantic relationships with actors Jason Patric,[155] Liam Neeson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, and Matthew Perry.[156] She was briefly engaged to Sutherland; they broke up shortly before their scheduled wedding on June 14, 1991.[156] According to Roberts, it had been canceled long before "days before the wedding" as the press claimed at the time,[157] and that it was a mutual decision.[155] On June 25, 1993, she married country singer Lyle Lovett; the wedding took place at St. James Lutheran Church in Marion, Indiana.[158] They separated in March 1995 and subsequently divorced.[159] From 1998 to 2001, Roberts dated actor Benjamin Bratt.[160]

Roberts and her husband, cameraman Daniel Moder, met on the set of her film The Mexican in 2000 while she was still dating Bratt. At the time, Moder was married to Vera Steimberg. There were accusations of husband stealing.[161] He filed for divorce a little over a year later, and after it was finalized, he and Roberts wed on July 4, 2002,[162] at her ranch in Taos, New Mexico.[163] Together, they have three children: twins, a daughter and a son, born in November 2004,[164] and another son born in June 2007.[165]

Religious beliefs

In 2010, Roberts said she was

Hindu, having converted for "spiritual satisfaction".[166][167] Roberts is a devotee of the guru Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji), a picture of whom drew Roberts to Hinduism.[168]

In September 2009, Swami Daram Dev of Ashram Hari Mandir in

Balram for Henry.[169]

Filmography and accolades

Roberts' films that have earned the most at the box office, as of 2021, include:[170]

Roberts has received four

Screen Actors Guild Award. She won Golden Globe Awards for her performances in Steel Magnolias and Pretty Woman,[171] and as of 2019, has garnered eight nominations. Roberts received two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, one for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, for her guest-role on Law & Order, and the other for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Television Movie, for her performance in The Normal Heart.[172]

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