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Julia
Roberts
Julia Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress.
She was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing the
title role in the movie Erin Brockovich.
Born Julie Fiona Roberts in Smyrna, Georgia, Roberts first caught
the attention of moviegoers with her performance in the film Mystic
Pizza in 1988. The following year she was featured in Steel Magnolias
as a young bride battling diabetes, garnering her first Oscar nomination
(as Best Supporting Actress) for her performance. She catapulted to
worldwide fame co-starring with Richard Gere in the Cinderella-story
Pretty Woman in 1990, which also earned her a second Oscar nod, this
time as Best Actress.
Her next huge box-office success was the thriller Sleeping With the
Enemy, in which she portrayed a battered wife who escapes from her
husband and starts a new life. She played Tinkerbelle in Steven Spielberg's
Hook in 1991, which was followed by a two- year period in which she
had no acting roles other than a cameo appearance in Robert Altman's
The Player (1992). In early 1993, she was the subject of a People
magazine cover story asking, "What Happened to Julia Roberts?" |
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Later that year, she co-starred with Denzel Washington in the highly
successful The Pelican Brief, based on the John Grisham novel. Grisham
wrote the lead female character, Darby Shaw, specifically for Roberts
to play. For the next few years, she starred in a series of films
that were critical and commercial failures, primarily because she
was cast in off-beat roles that strayed too far from her persona.
She broke her losing streak with the hit comedy My Best Friend's
Wedding in (1997), and eventually earned a reputation as an actress
who could guarantee a huge box office draw. She won critical acclaim
and finally nabbed an Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of
Erin Brockovich - a woman who had helped wage a successful lawsuit
against energy giant Pacific Gas & Electric - in the 2001 movie
of the same name.
Roberts' personal life has often been in the spotlight, a fact that
served as the basis of her (1998) movie Notting Hill - a romantic
comedy about a famous actress falling for an "ordinary"
guy played by Hugh Grant. Her character, actress Anna Scott, was
said to be closely so modelled on Roberts herself that when asked
in one scene how much she was paid to appear in a movie, Scott replied
"fifteen million dollars" . . . precisely the amount Roberts
had received to appear in the film.
Roberts was engaged to actor Kiefer Sutherland in 1991 but ended
the relationship just days before the wedding. She later eloped
with country and western singer Lyle Lovett shortly after meeting
him; they divorced in 1995.
Roberts met her husband, cameraman Danny Moder, on the set of her
movie The Mexican in 2000. The couple were married July 4, 2002
in Taos, New Mexico, and welcomed twins - Hazel Patricia and Phinnaeus
Walter - to the family on November 28, 2004.
For years, Roberts has been estranged from her brother, actor Eric
Roberts.
Filmography
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Closer (2004)
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Full Frontal (2002)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
America's Sweethearts (2001)
The Mexican (2001)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Runaway Bride (1999)
Notting Hill (1999)
Stepmom (1998)
Conspiracy Theory (1997)
My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Michael Collins (1996)
Mary Reilly (1996)
Something to Talk About (1995)
Prêt-à-Porter aka Ready to Wear (1994)
I Love Trouble (1994)
The Pelican Brief (1993)
The Player (1992)
Hook (1991)
Dying Young (1991)
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Flatliners (1990)
Pretty Woman (1990)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Blood Red (1988)
Mystic Pizza (1988)
Satisfaction (aka Girls of Summer) (1988)
Firehouse (1987)
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