Name: Julia Roberts

Birth Name: Julie Fiona Roberts

Birthdate: Oct. 28, 1967

Birthplace: Smyrna, Ga.

Roberts first hit the big time as the streetwalking Cinderella who wins the heart of millionaire Richard Gere in 1990's Pretty Woman. Two big hits followed: the death-fetish flick Flatliners and the battered-wife thriller Sleeping With the Enemy. After a few years of misses, Roberts reclaimed her former box-office glory in 1997: The summer release My Best Friend's Wedding opened to the highest-ever single weekend ticket sales for a romantic comedy and earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Two years later, she starred in two successful romantic comedies (Notting Hill, Runaway Bride). Numerous critics judged her performance as a working single mom in Steven Soderbergh's Erin Brockovich (2000) to be her finest performance to date, and it surprised few when she was awarded the Best Actress Golden Globe in January 2001, and then the Best Actress Oscar the following March. Since her big Oscar win, she's been involved in an Oscar-winning drama (2004's Closer) and co-starred in both Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve.


1. She wanted to be a veterinarian as a child.
2. Roberts was the first actress to receive a $20 million-dollar paycheck, a feat eventually matched by Cameron Diaz and Angelina Jolie.
3. She was engaged to Kiefer Sutherland in 1991, but ended things shortly before the wedding.
4. She had twins in 2004.
5. She has been selected by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world a record-breaking eight times.


On fame: "The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, 'Girl in stall No. 1, were you in Mystic Pizza? I paused and I said, 'Yeah, that was me.'"
— People, Aug. 22, 1999


Husband: Lyle Lovett, musician, born 1957, married June 25, 1993, divorced March 22, 1995
Husband: Daniel Moder, cameraman, born January 31, 1969, married July 4, 2002
Daughter: Hazel Patricia, born Nov. 28, 2004
Son: Phinnaeus Walter, born Nov. 28, 2004
Son: Henry Daniel, June 18, 2007

2001: Academy Award: Best Actress, Erin Brockovich; Golden Globe: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), Erin Brockovich

2000: Golden Globe nomination: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Notting Hill

1998: Golden Globe nomination: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), My Best Friend's Wedding

1991: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress, Pretty Woman; Golden Globe: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Pretty Woman

1990: Academy Award nomination: Best Supporting Actress, Steel Magnolias; Golden Globe: Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), Steel Magnolias

 

FILMS

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl - (2008) - Executive Producer
Charlie Wilson's War - (2007) - Actor
Ant Bully - (2006) - Voice
Charlotte's Web - (2006) - Voice
Tell Them Who You Are - (2005) - Featured
Mona Lisa Smile/America's Sweethearts - (2005) - Actor
Closer - (2004) - Actor
Ocean's Twelve - (2004) - Actor
Mona Lisa Smile - (2003) - Actor
Grand Champion - (2003) - Actor
Full Frontal - (2002) - Actor
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - (2002) - Actor
America's Sweethearts - (2001) - Actor
Ocean's Eleven - (2001) - Actor
The Mexican - (2001) - Actor
Erin Brockovich - (2000) - Actor
Notting Hill - (1999) - Actor
Runaway Bride - (1999) - Actor
Stepmom - (1998) - Actor
Everyone Says I Love You - (1997) - Actor
Conspiracy Theory - (1997) - Actor
My Best Friend's Wedding - (1997) - Actor
Michael Collins - (1996) - Actor
Mary Reilly - (1996) - Actor
Something to Talk About - (1995) - Actor
Ready to Wear - (1994) - Actor
I Love Trouble - (1994) - Actor
The Pelican Brief - (1993) - Actor
The Player - (1992) - Actor
Sleeping With the Enemy - (1991) - Actor
Dying Young - (1991) - Actor
Hook - (1991) - Actor
Pretty Woman - (1990) - Actor
Flatliners - (1990) - Actor
Pretty Woman (10th Anniversary Edition)/ Green Card - (1990) - Actor
Steel Magnolias - (1989) - Actor
Baja Oklahoma - (1988) - Actor
Blood Red - (1988) - Actor
Satisfaction - (1988) - Actor
Mystic Pizza - (1988) - Actor