Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on the 28th of October 1967. Her hospital bill was paid by Coretta King, whose children attended an acting school run by Julia's parents. The Roberts family was struggling with money at the time. The gesture also thanked her father for running the only racially integrated theater troupe in the region. That newborn grew up to be the world's highest-paid actress through most of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s. How did a girl who dreamed of becoming a veterinarian reach that peak? Why did a two-year absence from the screen prompt a magazine cover asking what had happened to her? And why do critics still argue over whether she is a great actress or simply a great star?
Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts met while performing in theatrical productions for the United States Armed Forces. Both were one-time actors and playwrights, and they married in 1955. They later co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop off Juniper Street in Midtown Atlanta. While expecting Julia, they also ran a children's acting school in Decatur, Georgia.
Julia's older siblings were Eric, born in 1956, and Lisa Roberts Gillan, born in 1965. Both became actors, and so did her later niece Emma Roberts. Julia and Eric were estranged for several years, until 2004. Her father was a Baptist and her mother a Catholic, and Julia was raised Catholic.
Home life fractured early. Her mother filed for divorce in 1971, and it was finalized in early 1972. From then on Julia lived in Smyrna, Georgia, attending Fitzhugh Lee Elementary School, Griffin Middle School and Campbell High School.
In 1972 her mother married Michael Motes, a man who was abusive and often unemployed. Julia despised him. Their daughter Nancy, Julia's half-sister, died at 37 on the 9th of February 2014, of an apparent drug overdose. Betty Lou divorced Motes in 1983 on grounds of cruelty and called marrying him the biggest mistake of her life. Julia's own father died of cancer when she was ten.
At school she played the clarinet in the band. After graduating, she headed for New York City to chase an acting career. There she signed with the Click Modeling Agency and enrolled in acting classes.
On the 13th of February 1987, the series Crime Story aired an episode called "The Survivor." Roberts played a juvenile rape victim in it, in a season starring Dennis Farina. That same year she filmed Blood Red opposite her brother Eric. She had only two words of dialogue, and the film waited until 1989 for release.
Her big-screen debut was Satisfaction in 1988, where she played a band member hunting for a summer gig beside Liam Neeson and Justine Bateman. The same year she appeared in the fourth-season finale of Miami Vice. Her first real success with moviegoers came with Mystic Pizza, an independent romantic comedy. She played a Portuguese-American teenager working as a waitress at a pizza parlor. Roger Ebert saw a "major beauty with a fierce energy" and predicted the film might someday be remembered for the stars it showcased before they were stars.
Steel Magnolias followed in 1989, adapted from Robert Harling's 1987 play of the same name. Roberts played a young bride with diabetes, opposite Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine and Daryl Hannah. The filmmakers had been weighing Laura Dern and Winona Ryder. The casting director insisted they meet Roberts, who was then shooting Mystic Pizza. Harling recalled: "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."
Director Herbert Ross was notoriously hard on the newcomer. Sally Field admitted he "went after Julia with a vengeance. This was pretty much her first big film." The film succeeded with critics and audiences. It brought Roberts her first Academy Award nomination and her first Golden Globe win.
That momentum carried her into Pretty Woman in 1990, opposite Richard Gere. She played an assertive freelance sex worker with a heart of gold. The part reached her only after Michelle Pfeiffer, Molly Ringwald, Meg Ryan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Karen Allen and Hannah had all turned it down. Roberts was paid $300,000. The film earned her a second Oscar nomination and a second Golden Globe. It drew the biggest ticket sales ever recorded in the United States for a romantic comedy and made $463.4 million worldwide. Her red dress from the film is regarded as one of the most famous gowns in cinema.
She then made Flatliners for Joel Schumacher, playing one of five students who run secret experiments producing near-death experiences. Critics were divided, but it turned a profit and became a cult favorite. In 1991 she played a battered wife starting over in Iowa in Sleeping with the Enemy. She was a winged, six-inch-tall, tomboyish Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg's Hook. She also played a nurse in Dying Young, her second film with Schumacher. Reviews were negative, yet the three grossed $175 million, $300.9 million and $82.3 million worldwide.
In early 1993, a People magazine cover story posed a blunt question: "What Happened to Julia Roberts?" She had stepped away from the screen for two years. Her only appearance in that gap was a cameo in Robert Altman's The Player, released in 1992.
She returned in The Pelican Brief, a thriller with Denzel Washington based on John Grisham's 1992 novel. Roberts played a young law student who uncovers a conspiracy and endangers herself and others. The film grossed $195.2 million worldwide. Then came a rough patch. I Love Trouble and Prêt-à-Porter, both from 1994, and Something to Talk About, from 1995, neither impressed critics nor drew big crowds.
In 1996 she guest-starred on Friends in the thirteenth episode of its second season, "The One After the Superbowl." She also played Kitty Kiernan, fiancée of the assassinated Irish revolutionary leader, in Michael Collins, opposite Liam Neeson. Stephen Frears' Mary Reilly, her other 1996 film, failed critically and commercially.
Romantic comedy rescued her. In My Best Friend's Wedding, from 1997, she played a food critic who realizes she loves her best friend just as he plans to marry someone else. Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz and Rupert Everett co-starred. Her performance was highly praised, and the film earned $299.3 million.
She followed it with the political thriller Conspiracy Theory, as a Justice Department attorney opposite Mel Gibson, which grossed $137 million. In 1998 she appeared on Sesame Street with Elmo and starred with Susan Sarandon in Stepmom, a drama about a terminally ill mother and her children's future stepmother. Reviews were mixed-to-positive, and it made $159.7 million.
Notting Hill, in 1999, paired her with Hugh Grant. She played a famous actress who falls for a struggling bookstore owner. It overtook Four Weddings and a Funeral as the biggest British hit in cinema history, with $363 million worldwide. A CNN reviewer, Paul Clinton, called her "the queen of the romantic comedy" and said her "reign continues." Runaway Bride, with Richard Gere and Garry Marshall again, followed. She played a woman who keeps leaving fiancés at the altar. Reviews were mixed, but it grossed $309.4 million.
That year she also guest-starred in the Law & Order episode "Empire," alongside Benjamin Bratt, who was then her boyfriend. The role earned her a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
Erin Brockovich, released in 2000, made Roberts the first actress paid $20 million for a film. She played the real-life environmental activist who fought the Pacific Gas and Electric Company of California. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone praised the emotional toll she showed as Erin tries to stay responsible to her children and her job. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly enjoyed her "flirtatious sparkle and undertow of melancholy." The film earned $256.3 million worldwide and won Roberts the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 73rd Academy Awards, along with a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Her company Shoelace Productions also landed a deal with Joe Roth that year.
Her first project afterward was The Mexican in 2001, a road gangster comedy shot with her long-time friend Brad Pitt. It had been conceived as an independent film without major stars. Roberts and Pitt, who had been seeking a project together, heard about it and signed on. Though sold as a romantic comedy, the two share relatively little screen time. She then starred in Joe Roth's America's Sweethearts, which grossed over $138 million despite critics finding it only funny in spurts.
Ocean's Eleven followed in 2001, directed by Steven Soderbergh, who also directed Erin Brockovich. It remade a 1960 film. Roberts played Tess Ocean, ex-wife of Danny Ocean, played by George Clooney, with Brad Pitt and Matt Damon in the cast. The film earned $450 million worldwide, the fifth highest of its year.
She received a record $25 million, the most any actress had earned to that point, to play a forward-thinking art history professor at Wellesley College in 1953 in Mona Lisa Smile. Critics found it predictable and safe, but it made over $141 million. In 2004 she replaced Cate Blanchett in Closer, a romantic drama by Patrick Marber, alongside Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen. She reprised Tess in Ocean's Twelve, which deliberately went stranger than the first film. In one sequence her character impersonates the real Julia Roberts. It grossed $363 million worldwide. In 2005 she appeared in her first music video, for the Dave Matthews Band single "Dreamgirl."
In 2006 she voiced a nurse ant in The Ant Bully and a barn spider in Charlotte's Web. Her Broadway debut came on the 19th of April 2006, in a revival of Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain, opposite Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd. It grossed nearly $1 million in its first week, but her performance was criticized. Ben Brantley of The New York Times found her self-conscious. Clive Barnes of the New York Post wrote that he "hated the play" and, "to be sadly honest, even hated her."
Charlie Wilson's War in 2007 cast her as socialite Joanne Herring, opposite Tom Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman. It earned her a sixth Golden Globe nomination. In Duplicity, in 2009, she played a CIA agent running a con alongside Clive Owen. A. O. Scott wrote that at 41 she was "unmistakably in her prime." The independent drama Fireflies in the Garden played the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival but reached North America only in 2011.
In 2010 she took a six-minute part in the ensemble comedy Valentine's Day, for $3 million up front against 3 percent of the gross. She also starred in Eat Pray Love, playing an author finding herself after a divorce. Larry Crowne, with Tom Hanks directing, was poorly received. In Mirror Mirror, in 2012, she played the wicked Queen Clementianna.
Then came August: Osage County, in 2013, with Meryl Streep and Ewan McGregor. She played Barbara Weston-Fordham, a sharp-tongued, emotionally scarred daughter at a family reunion. The role earned her a fourth Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2014 Roberts played Dr. Emma Brookner, a character based on Dr. Linda Laubenstein, in HBO's adaptation of Larry Kramer's AIDS-era play The Normal Heart. Vanity Fair said she "hums with righteous, Erin Brokovich-ian anger." It saw her carving a niche playing brittle women who show love through explosive temper. She received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
That year she narrated an episode of Makers: Women Who Make America, and in 2015 she appeared in a Givenchy spring-summer campaign. She played a grieving mother in Secret in Their Eyes, an American remake of a 2009 Argentine film. Unlike the original, it received negative reviews and found no audience.
In 2016 she reportedly received $3 million for a four-day shoot on Mother's Day, playing an author who gave a child up for adoption. The response was lackluster. Jodie Foster's thriller Money Monster, with George Clooney, followed, with Roberts as a television director. It made a respectable $93.3 million worldwide.
Wonder, in 2017, cast her as the mother of a boy with Treacher Collins syndrome, in an adaptation of R. J. Palacio's 2012 novel. It grossed $305.9 million worldwide, among her most widely seen films. That year she also voiced a motherly Smurf leader in Smurfs: The Lost Village.
In 2018 she played the mother of a troubled young man in Ben Is Back. In November of that year Amazon Video premiered Homecoming, in which she played a caseworker at a secret government facility. It was her first regular television project. Critics called it an impressive small-screen debut, and she earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama.
Ticket to Paradise, with George Clooney, was released by Universal Pictures on the 21st of October 2022. That year she also played Martha Mitchell, a controversial figure in the Watergate scandal, in the Starz series Gaslit. It was based on the first season of the podcast Slow Burn by Leon Neyfakh. In 2023 she played Amanda Sandford in Leave the World Behind, with Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali. It adapts Rumaan Alam's novel and was produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's company, Higher Ground Productions. In 2024 she and Riley Keough narrated the audiobook of Lisa Marie Presley's memoir From Here to the Great Unknown.
Journalist Josh Young of The New York Times wrote in 1995 that Roberts was a "rainmaker for women's films." He said her name could guarantee an opening weekend and even get a project approved. Her agent at the time, Elaine Goldsmith, credited her as one of the actresses who persuaded studios that women could carry films as successfully as men. Leah Rozen, also of The New York Times, called her the biggest female box office draw for 20 years.
The Hollywood Reporter tracked her rise. In 2000 she became the first actress on its list of the 50 most influential women in show business, ranked third. In 2002 she became the first woman named the most bankable star in Hollywood in an industry poll, tying with Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks. She appeared on the magazine's list of the 10 highest-paid actresses every year from 2002 to 2005. BBC News Online said her pay set a new standard for actresses' compensation.
People magazine named her the World's Most Beautiful Woman a record five times, most recently in 2017. Media outlets often call her "America's sweetheart." BBC News Online tied her early popularity to relatable, girl-next-door characters, often vulnerable working-class women. Geoffrey Macnab of The Independent said her appeal blended classic Hollywood glamour with a down-to-earth quality.
But critics have debated her acting. David Edelstein noted that she is widely acknowledged as a movie star while some doubt her range. In 2012, HuffPost writer Mike Ryan argued that her career rested more on star power than on acclaim for her acting. John Anderson of The Seattle Times called her "an actress who has never really been required to act." Matt Singer of The Dissolve said she rarely strayed from the persona of "a simple girl of limited means and unlimited heart." Singer also found a "surprisingly asexual onscreen persona" in a woman who became famous playing a prostitute.
Director Mike Nichols countered that her beauty sometimes overshadowed her skill. He praised her intelligence, her preparation and her ability to fully inhabit a character. Roberts herself says she has no acting technique, commenting, "there's nothing more boring than actors sitting around talking about acting."
Reports of her being difficult on set followed her for years. In a 2024 interview with filmmaker Richard Curtis, she tied the rumors to her forthright personality. She said she consciously avoided seeming overly friendly on sets so that nobody would take advantage of her, and that she never intends to hurt anyone. Since Eat Pray Love she has drifted from romantic comedy toward dramas and ensemble work, and by 2017 she said she waited to see what came along rather than hunting for roles.
The production company Red Om Films takes its name from "Moder" spelled backwards, a nod to her husband's surname. Roberts runs it with her sister Lisa Roberts Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill. Through it she has executive-produced projects she starred in, including Eat Pray Love and Homecoming. She also executive-produced the first four American Girl films, released between 2004 and 2008.
Brand deals have been lucrative. In 2006 she signed a $6 million endorsement with the fashion label Gianfranco Ferre, photographed by Mario Testino. She has been Lancôme's global ambassador since 2009, and in 2010 she signed a five-year extension worth $50 million. For Chopard she has been the face of its Happy Sport and Happy Diamonds campaigns since 2021, and the jeweler named her a Global Brand Ambassador in 2023.
Her charitable work includes a six-day visit to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1995 for UNICEF, which sought $10 million in aid at the time. In 2000 she narrated a documentary on Rett syndrome. In 2014 she voiced Mother Nature for the Conservation International campaign Nature Is Speaking.
Her romantic history includes relationships with Jason Patric, Liam Neeson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott and Matthew Perry. She was briefly engaged to Sutherland, and they split shortly before a wedding scheduled for the 14th of June 1991. She says it was a mutual decision made long before, not days before, as the press claimed. On the 25th of June 1993 she married country singer Lyle Lovett at St. James Lutheran Church in Marion, Indiana. They separated in March 1995 and divorced. From 1998 to 2001 she dated Benjamin Bratt.
She met cameraman Daniel Moder on the set of The Mexican in 2000, while still dating Bratt. Moder was then married to Vera Steimberg, and he filed for divorce a little over a year later. After it was finalized, he and Roberts wed on the 4th of July 2002 at her ranch in Taos, New Mexico. They have three children.
In 2010 she said she was Hindu, having converted for spiritual satisfaction. She is a devotee of the guru Neem Karoli Baba, whose picture drew her to the faith. While she shot Eat Pray Love in 2009, Swami Daram Dev of Ashram Hari Mandir in Pataudi gave her children Hindu names. Hazel became Lakshmi, Phinnaeus became Ganesh and Henry became Krishna Balram.
On a 2023 episode of Finding Your Roots, she learned that her paternal great-great-grandfather's surname was actually Mitchell, not Roberts. She also learned her ancestors owned slaves. She is a distant cousin of the actor Edward Norton, and she is known for preferring to go barefoot, even at her wedding to Lovett. She endorsed Joe Biden for re-election in 2024, and later campaigned for Kamala Harris at a rally in Georgia.
On the 28th of February 2025, French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati named her a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contribution to world cinema.
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Who is Julia Roberts?
Julia Roberts is an American actress, born in Atlanta, Georgia, on the 28th of October 1967. She is known for romantic comedies such as Pretty Woman, Notting Hill and My Best Friend's Wedding, and for dramas such as Erin Brockovich.
Did Julia Roberts win an Oscar?
Julia Roberts won the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 73rd Academy Awards for playing the title role in Erin Brockovich. She has received four Oscar nominations in total, including Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman and August: Osage County.
How much was Julia Roberts paid for Pretty Woman?
Julia Roberts was paid $300,000 for Pretty Woman in 1990. The film made $463.4 million worldwide and earned her a second Oscar nomination and a second Golden Globe win.
Was Julia Roberts the first actress paid $20 million for a film?
Julia Roberts became the first actress to be paid $20 million for a film when she starred in Erin Brockovich in 2000. She later received a record $25 million for Mona Lisa Smile.
Who is Julia Roberts married to?
Julia Roberts is married to cameraman Daniel Moder. They met on the set of The Mexican in 2000 and wed on the 4th of July 2002 at her ranch in Taos, New Mexico. They have three children.
What is Red Om Films, the company run by Julia Roberts?
Red Om Films is the production company Julia Roberts runs with her sister Lisa Roberts Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill. The name is "Moder" spelled backwards, after her husband's surname. It has produced projects including Eat Pray Love, Homecoming and the first four American Girl films.
Why was Julia Roberts called America's sweetheart?
Media outlets have called Julia Roberts "America's sweetheart" because of relatable, girl-next-door characters, often vulnerable working-class women. Critics said she blended classic Hollywood glamour with an approachable, down-to-earth quality.
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- 166NewsPeople magazine names Julia Roberts 'World's Most Beautiful Woman'April 19, 2017
- 167Julia Roberts Isn't ACTUALLY Julia "Roberts"?? - Finding Your RootsJanuary 3, 2023
- 168Julia Roberts feels 'sad' after discovering her ancestor's connection to slavery: Here's whyJang Group — January 5, 2023
- 169Julia Roberts Just Discovered She's Related to This 'Glass Onion' StarCarrie Wittmer — January 4, 2023
- 170MagazineJulia Roberts: The Price of FameCable Neuhaus — November 22, 1991
- 171NewsMiss Roberts RegretsLouise Lague — July 1, 1991
- 172MagazineThe Rolling Stone Interview: Julia RobertsDavid Rensin — July 14, 1994
- 173NewsState of Their UnionShelley Levitt — August 8, 1994
- 174NewsOne Last Sad SongKaren Schneider — April 10, 1995
- 176Danny Moder and Julia Roberts WeddingCelebrity Bride Guide — July 4, 2004
- 177Hideaway BrideKaren Schneider — July 11, 2002
- 178Julia Roberts Gives Birth to TwinsNovember 28, 2004
- 179Julia Roberts Welcomes a Baby BoyJune 18, 2007
- 180NewsJulia Roberts: I'm a HinduHeidi Blake — August 5, 2010
- 181Why Julia Roberts Became a HinduSubhamoy Roy — January 10, 2019
- 182Julia Roberts' Journey in 'Eat Pray Love'ABC News — August 9, 2010
- 183NewsJulia Roberts names children after Hindu godsSeptember 24, 2009
- 184Can Political Endorsements From Stars Like Taylor Swift Make a Difference?Aneeta Mathur-Ashton — June 14, 2024
- 185NewsJulia Roberts stumps for Harris in GeorgiaFilip Timotija — October 11, 2024
- 186NewsDonald Trump Slams Julia Roberts for Narrating Ad Urging Wives to Vote for Kamala Harris: 'She's Going to Look Back at That and She's Going to Cringe'J. Kim Murphy et al. — November 2, 2024
- 188Julia Roberts Went Barefoot on the Cannes Red CarpetMay 12, 2016
- 189NewsJulia Roberts to receive George Eastman Award for movie workFebruary 18, 2019