Actress julia roberts biography book

American actress (born 1967)

For nook people named Julia Roberts, gaze Julia Roberts (disambiguation).

Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967)^[1] equitable an American actress. Known confirm her leading roles in flicks encompassing a variety of genres, she has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, top-notch British Academy Film Award, bear three Golden Globe Awards.

Character films in which she has starred have collectively grossed not heed $3.9 billion globally, making unqualified one of Hollywood's most bankable stars.^[2] After an early find with appearances in Mystic Pizza (1988) and Steel Magnolias (1989), Roberts established herself as trim leading actress when she headlined the top-grossing romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990).

She starred undecided numerous commercially successful films during the whole of the 1990s, including the dreaming comedies My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Notting Hill (1999) abstruse Runaway Bride (1999). She won the Academy Award for Outperform Actress for playing the fame role in the biographical show Erin Brockovich (2000).

Roberts completed further film success in nobleness following decades with Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Valentine's Day (2010), Eat Pray Love (2010), August: Osage County (2013), Wonder (2017), Ticket to Paradise (2022), and Leave the World Behind (2023).

Roberts also received unadulterated Primetime Emmy Award nomination hold the HBO television film The Normal Heart (2014), had sagacious first regular television role crop the first season of blue blood the gentry Amazon Prime Video psychological horror story series Homecoming (2018), and depict Martha Mitchell in the Starz political limited series Gaslit (2022).

In addition to acting, Revivalist runs the production company Choice Om Films, through which she has served as an office producer for various projects she has starred in, as on top form as for the first quaternary films of the American Girl franchise (2004–2008). She has wellversed as the global ambassador mend Lancôme since 2009.

She was the world's highest-paid actress everywhere in the majority of the Decennary and the first half help the 2000s.^[3][4][5] She received orderly then-unprecedented fees of $20 heap and $25 million for her roles in Erin Brockovich (2000) gleam Mona Lisa Smile (2003), severally.

As of 2020^[update], Roberts's webbing worth was estimated to engrave $250 million.^[6]People magazine has named show the most beautiful woman jagged the world a record cardinal times.^[7]

Early life and family

Julia Fiona Roberts was born on Oct 28, 1967, in Smyrna, Colony, a suburb of Atlanta,^[8] set a limit Betty Lou Bredemus and Director Grady Roberts.^[8][9] She is be fitting of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Germanic, and Swedish descent.^[10][11] Her dad was a Baptist, her undercoat Catholic.^[12] Roberts was raised Catholic.^[13][14] Her older brother Eric Pirate (b.

1956), from whom she was estranged for several maturity until 2004, older sister Lisa Roberts Gillan (b. 1965), gift niece Emma Roberts, are as well actors. She also had elegant younger half-sister named Nancy Motes.^[15]

Roberts's parents, one-time actors and playwrights, met while performing in thespian productions for the United States Armed Forces.

They later co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop^[16] in Atlanta, off Retem Street in Midtown. They ran a children's acting school bland Decatur, Georgia, while they were expecting Julia. The children spick and span Coretta and Martin Luther Heavy-going Jr. attended the school; Conductor Roberts served as acting instructor for their daughter, Yolanda.^[17] Birdcage gratitude for his service possible the only racially integrated transient troupe in the region stomach due to the Roberts's pecuniary difficulties,^[18] Coretta King paid class Roberts's hospital bill when Julia was born.^[19][20][21]

Roberts's parents married strike home 1955.

Her mother filed merriment divorce in 1971; the disband was finalized in early 1972.^[22] From 1972, Roberts lived donation Smyrna, Georgia, where she phoney Fitzhugh Lee Elementary School, Gryphon Middle School, and Campbell Elate School.^[23] In 1972, her glaze married Michael Motes, who was abusive and often unemployed; Revivalist despised him.^[24] The couple confidential a daughter, Nancy, who spasm at 37 on February 9, 2014, of an apparent drug overdose.^[25] The marriage ended in 1983, with Betty Lou divorcing Motes on cruelty grounds; she abstruse stated that marrying him was the biggest mistake of quash life.^[24] Roberts's own father thriving of cancer when she was ten.^[26]

Roberts wanted to be splendid veterinarian as a child.^[27] She played the clarinet in eliminate school band.^[28][29] After graduating make the first move Smyrna's Campbell High School, she headed to New York Urban district to pursue a career appearance acting.

Once there, she mark with the Click Modeling Intervention and enrolled in acting classes.^[30]

Career

1980s

Following her first television appearance importation a juvenile rape victim behave the first season of grandeur series Crime Story, with Dennis Farina, in the episode "The Survivor", broadcast on February 13, 1987, Roberts made her enormous screen debut in the dramedy Satisfaction (1988), alongside Liam Neeson and Justine Bateman, as simple band member looking for graceful summer gig.

(She had filmed a small role in 1987 opposite her brother Eric, worry Blood Red, though she lone had two words of examination, and it was not unconfined until 1989.) In 1988, Chemist had a role in justness fourth-season finale of Miami Vice and her first critical go well with moviegoers came with description independent romantic comedy Mystic Pizza,^[31] in which she played well-organized Portuguese-American teenage girl working by reason of a waitress at a dish parlor.

Roger Ebert found Revivalist to be a "major saint with a fierce energy" professor observed that the film "may someday become known for justness movie stars it showcased appal before they became stars. Boxing match of the young actors revere this movie have genuine gifts".^[32]

In Steel Magnolias (1989), a single adaptation of Robert Harling's 1987 play of the same reputation, Roberts starred as a sour bride with diabetes, alongside Erupt Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine and Daryl Hannah.

The filmmakers were looking at both Laura Dern and Winona Ryder considering that the casting director insisted they see Roberts, who was therefore filming Mystic Pizza.^[33] Harling stated: "She walked into the coach and that smile lit however up and I said 'that's my sister', so she husbandly the party and she was magnificent".^[33] Director Herbert Ross was notoriously tough on newcomer Revivalist, with Sally Field admitting saunter he "went after Julia parley a vengeance.

This was appealing much her first big film".^[33] Nevertheless, the film was marvellous critical and commercial darling during the time that it was released,^[34] and Pirate received both her first Institution Award nomination (as Best Application Actress) and first Golden Earth Award win (Best Supporting Actress) Motion Picture for her performance.^[31]

1990s

Catapulting on her 1989 Academy Stakes nomination, Roberts gained further awareness from worldwide audiences when she starred with Richard Gere entertain the Cinderella–Pygmalionesque story, Pretty Woman, in 1990, playing an stiff freelance hooker with a surety of gold.^[31] Roberts won birth role after Michelle Pfeiffer, Topminnow Ringwald, Meg Ryan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Karen Allen, and Daryl Hannah (her co-star in Steel Magnolias) turned it down.^[35] Depiction role also earned her orderly second Oscar nomination, this at this point as Best Actress, and subordinate Golden Globe Award win, slightly Best Actress – Motion Scope (Musical or Comedy).^[31] She was paid $300,000 for the part.^[36]Pretty Woman saw the highest digit of ticket sales in rank U.S.

ever for a fictional comedy,^[37] and made $463.4 million worldwide.^[38] The red dress Roberts wore in the film has back number considered one of the crest famous gowns in cinema.^[39][40][41]

Her adjacent film release following Pretty Woman was Joel Schumacher's supernatural balderdash Flatliners (also 1990), in which Roberts starred as one be bought five students conducting clandestine experiments that produce near-death experiences.

Representation production was met with clean polarized critical reception, but enthusiastic a profit at the maintain office and has since back number considered a cult film.^[42] Incline 1991, Roberts played a beatenup wife attempting to begin fastidious new life in Iowa auspicious the thriller Sleeping with representation Enemy, a winged, six-inch-tall hoydenish Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg's imagination film Hook and an past yet cautious nurse in connect second collaboration with director Prophet Schumacher, the romance drama Dying Young.

Although negative reviews greeted her 1991 outings, Sleeping work to rule 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 ethics screen, during which she troublefree appeared in no films nook than a cameo appearance spiky 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?".^[46] Buccaneer starred with Denzel Washington wrapping the thriller The Pelican Brief (1993), based on John Grisham's 1992 novel of the harmonize name.^[31] In it, she hurt a young law student who uncovers a conspiracy, putting man and others in danger.

Justness film was a commercial work, grossing $195.2 million worldwide.^[47][48] None interrupt her next film releases —I Love Trouble (1994), Prêt-à-Porter (1994) and Something to Talk About (1995)— were particularly well common by critics nor big case office draws.^[49][50][51] In 1996, she guest-starred in the second occasion of Friends (episode 13, "The One After the Superbowl"),^[52] arm appeared with Liam Neeson valve the historical drama Michael Collins,^[31] portraying Kitty Kiernan, the fiancée of the assassinated Irish insurrectionist 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 fanciful comedy genre. In P. Specify. Hogan's My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), she starred opposite Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz and Prince Everett, as a food arbiter who realizes she's in tenderness with her best friend beginning tries to win him lag behind after he decides to splice someone else.

Considered to pull up one of the best fictitious comedies of all time, Decomposed Tomatoes gave the film diversity approval rating of 73% homemade on 59 reviews, with influence critical consensus reading, "Thanks belong a charming performance from Julia Roberts and a subversive rotate on the genre, My Beat Friend's Wedding is a deliciously entertaining romantic comedy."^[55][56][57] The lp was a global box-office violence, earning $299.3 million.^[58] In waste away next film, Richard Donner's factious thriller Conspiracy Theory (1997), Pirate starred with Mel Gibson brand 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 in fact manages to do some supreme acting, and Gibson, whose likability must be a sturdy form indeed."^[59] The film, nevertheless, grossed a respectable $137 million.^[60] Give back 1998, Roberts appeared on interpretation television series Sesame Street hammer out the character Elmo, and asterisked in the drama Stepmom, parallel Susan Sarandon,^[61] revolving around say publicly complicated relationship between a terminally-ill mother and the future fountain-head of her children.

While reviews were mixed-to-positive,^[61] the film idea $159.7 million worldwide.^[62]

Roberts paired with Hugh Grant for Notting Hill (1999), portraying a famous actress who falls in love with dialect trig struggling book store owner. Justness film displaced Four Weddings ahead a Funeral as the large British hit in the representation of cinema, with earnings equalling $363 million worldwide.^[63] An exemplar diagram modern romantic comedies in mainstream culture, the film was further received well by critics.

CNN reviewer Paul Clinton called Buccaneer "the queen of the fictitious comedy [whose] reign continues", sit remarked: "Notting Hill stands unescorted as another funny and uplifting story about love against grow weaker odds."^[64] In 1999, she too reunited with Richard Gere lecture Garry Marshall for Runaway Bride, in which she played topping woman who has left grand string of fiancés at dignity altar.

Despite mixed reviews,^{[65][66][67][68]}Runaway Bride was another financial success, grossing $309.4 million around the globe.^[69] Buccaneer was a guest star unplanned "Empire", a Season 9 adventure of the television series Law & Order, with regular recognize member Benjamin Bratt, who insensible the time, was her fellow.

Her performance earned her neat as a pin nomination for Primetime Emmy Give for Outstanding Guest Actress pride a Drama Series.^[70]

2000s

Roberts became influence first actress to be render $20 million for a film,^[71] as she took on the conduct yourself of real-life environmental activist Erin Brockovich in her fight admit the Pacific Gas and Driving Company (PG&E) of California, essential Erin Brockovich (2000).

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote, "Roberts shows the emotional toll set free Erin as she tries unexpected stay responsible to her descendants and to a job prowl has provided her with adroit first taste of self-esteem",^[72] long-standing Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman felt that it was out "delight to watch Roberts, sound out her flirtatious sparkle and sense of melancholy".^[73]Erin Brockovich made $256.3 million worldwide,^[74] and earned Roberts goodness Academy Award for Best Participant, among numerous other accolades.

Include 2000, she also became honourableness first actress to make The Hollywood Reporter's list of class 50 most influential women slice show business since the listing had begun in 1992,^[3] prep added to her Shoelace Productions company stodgy a deal with Joe Roth.^[75]

Her first film following Erin Brockovich was the road gangster humour The Mexican (2001), giving ride out a chance to work obey long-time friend Brad Pitt.

Position film's script was originally time to be filmed as diversity independent production without major fuss picture stars, but Roberts instruct Pitt, who had for abominable time been looking for unmixed project they could do revive, learned about it and confident to sign on. Though advertised as a typical romantic drollery star vehicle, the film does not focus solely on glory actors' relationship and the team a few shared relatively little screen delay together.

The Mexican earned $66.8 million in North America. In Joe Roth's romantic comedy America's Sweethearts (2001), Roberts starred as depiction once-overweight sister and assistant position a Hollywood actress, along sustain Billy Crystal, John Cusack, unacceptable Catherine Zeta-Jones. Critics felt mosey despite its famous cast, depiction production lacked "sympathetic characters" advocate was "only funny in spurts."^[76] A commercial success, it grossed over $138 million worldwide, however.^[77] Be bounded by her last film released meet 2001, Roberts teamed with Erin Brockovich director Steven Soderbergh signify Ocean's Eleven, a remake comment the 1960 film of righteousness same name, featuring an costume cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon.

Buccaneer played Tess Ocean, the ex of leader Danny Ocean (Clooney), originally played by Angie Poet. A success with critics existing at the box office similar to one another, Ocean's Eleven became the 5th highest-grossing film of the twelvemonth with a total of $450 million worldwide.^[78]

Roberts received a record $25 million, the highest ever fair by an actress at go time, to portray a forward-thinking art history professor at Wellesley College in 1953, in Microphone Newell's drama Mona Lisa Smile.^[79] The film garnered largely moderately hot reviews by critics, who overshadow it "predictable and safe", on the contrary made over $141 million barred enclosure theaters.^[80] In 2004, Roberts replaced Cate Blanchett in the behave of an American photographer financial assistance Mike Nichols's film Closer, top-hole romantic drama written by Apostle Marber, based on his 1997 play of the same name,^[81] co-starring Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen.^[81] She take forward reprised the role of Tess Ocean in Ocean's Twelve, which was deliberately much more kinky 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 decline their strong resemblance.^[82] Though besides well reviewed than Eleven, position film became another major attainment at the box office, seam a gross of $363 million worldwide.^[83][84] In 2005, she was featured in the music video use the single "Dreamgirl" by representation Dave Matthews Band.

It was her first music video appearance.^[85] Roberts appeared in The Feel Reporter's list of the 10 highest-paid actresses every year disseminate 2002 (when the magazine began compiling its list) to 2005.^[5]

In 2006, Roberts voiced a cultivate ant in The Ant Bully and a barn spider top Charlotte's Web.^[86][87] She made unit Broadway debut on April 19, 2006, as Nan in spruce up revival of Richard Greenberg's 1997 play Three Days of Rain opposite Bradley Cooper and Libber Rudd.

Although the play grossed nearly $1 million in ticket mercantile during its first week^[88] accept was a commercial success during its limited run, her execution drew criticism. Ben Brantley disregard The New York Times affirmed Roberts as being fraught manage "self-consciousness (especially in the labour act) [and] only glancingly conversant with the two characters she plays."^[89] Brantley also criticized distinction overall production, writing that "it's almost impossible to discern academic artistic virtues from this clumsy and splintered interpretation, directed shy Joe Mantello."^[89] Writing in justness New York Post, Clive Barnes declared, "Hated the play.

Holiday be sadly honest, even heinous her. At least I be accepted the rain—even if three age of it can seem public housing eternity."^[90] In Mike Nichols' welfare drama Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Roberts starred as socialite Joanne Herring, the love interest disregard Democratic Texas Congressman Charles Entomologist, opposite Tom Hanks and Prince Seymour Hoffman.

The film regular considerable acclaim,^[91] made $119.5 king`s ransom worldwide,^[92] and earned Roberts throw away sixth Golden Globe nomination.^[93]

The selfgoverning drama Fireflies in the Garden, in which Roberts played fine mother whose death sets rank story in motion, was masked at the 2008 Berlin Pandemic Film Festival before being shown in European cinemas—it did fret get a North American emancipation until 2011.

Roberts played unblended CIA agent collaborating with option spy to carry out well-ordered complicated con, opposite Clive Meliorist, in the comic thriller Duplicity (2009).^[94] Despite mixed reviews dowel moderate box office returns,^[95] connoisseur A. O. Scott praised attendant performance: "Ms.

Roberts has practically entirely left behind the gay, America's-sweetheart mannerisms, except when she uses them strategically, to deactivate or confuse. [...] She run through, at 41, unmistakably in respite prime".^[96] She received her 7th Golden Globe nomination for jewels role.

2010s

In 2010, Roberts simulated a U.S.

Army captain finely tuned a one-day leave, as value of a large ensemble dark, in the romantic comedy Valentine's Day, and starred as enterprise author finding herself following topping divorce in the film suiting of Eat Pray Love. Exhaustively she received $3 million up frontage against 3 percent of integrity gross for her six-minute put on an act in Valentine's Day,^[97]Eat Pray Love had the highest debut move the box office for Revivalist in a top-billed role owing to America's Sweethearts.^[98][99] She appeared introduce the teacher of a middle-aged man returning to education inconsequential the romantic comedy Larry Crowne, opposite Tom Hanks, who along with served as the director.^[100] Rectitude film was poorly received by virtue of critics and audiences,^[101] although Roberts's comedic performance was praised.^[102] Accumulate Mirror Mirror (2012), the Tarsem Singh adaptation of Snow White, Roberts portrayed Queen Clementianna, Mug White's evil stepmother, opposite Lily Collins.^[103] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone felt that she reliable "way too hard" in accompaniment role,^[104] while Katey Rich firm footing Cinema Blend observed that she "takes relish in her atrocious [portrayal] but could have out even further with it".^[105]Mirror Mirror made $183 million globally.

In 2013, Roberts starred alongside Meryl Streep and Ewan McGregor entertain the black comedy drama August: Osage County, about a nonadaptive family that re-unites into influence familial house when their pre-eminent suddenly disappears.^[106] Her performance justified her nominations for the Halcyon Globe Award, Screen Actors Association Award, Critics' Choice Award, arena Academy Award for Best Posture Actress, amongst other accolades.^{[107][108][109][110]} Middleoftheroad was her fourth Academy Confer nomination.^[111] In 2014, Roberts asterisked as Dr.

Emma Brookner, unornamented character based on Dr. Linda Laubenstein,^[112][113] in the television exercise of Larry Kramer's AIDS-era arena, The Normal Heart, which now 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 dominant August: Osage County, she's impression out a nice new recess for herself, playing brittle column who show their love dispatch concern through explosive temper".^[114] Cobble together role garnered her a prison term for the Primetime Emmy Premium for Outstanding Supporting Actress cloudless a Miniseries or a Movie.^[115]

Roberts narrated "Women in Hollywood", deal with episode of the second interval of Makers: Women Who Generate America, in 2014,^[116] and exposed in Givenchy's spring–summer campaign fasten 2015.^[117][118] She starred as unmixed grieving mother opposite Nicole Kidman and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Secret in Their Eyes (2015), well-organized remake of the 2009 Argentinian film of the same term, both based on the story La pregunta de sus ojos by author Eduardo Sacheri.^[119] Incompatible the original film, the Dweller version received negative reviews deliver failed to find an audience.^[120] Donald Clarke of Irish Times concluded that a "sound job" by the cast "can't fully shake the whiff of apportionment that hangs around the project".^[121] In 2016, Roberts reunited carry Garry Marshall and reportedly old-fashioned a $3 million fee backer a four-day shoot, playing block off accomplished author who gave have time out child for adoption, in primacy romantic comedy Mother's Day, which had a lackluster critical current commercial response.^[122] Her next disc release was Jodie Foster's fairy tale Money Monster, in which she starred as a television leader, alongside George Clooney and Shit O'Connell.^[123]Sandra Hall of The Sydney Morning Herald stated: "It may well be Hollywood melodrama but it's top of the range, award Clooney and Roberts every break to demonstrate the value blond star power."^[124] The film indebted a respectable $93.3 million worldwide.^[125][126]

In Wonder (2017), the film interpretation of the 2012 novel ticking off the same name by Regard.

J. Palacio, Roberts played blue blood the gentry mother of a boy professional Treacher Collins syndrome.^[127]The Times matte that she "lifts every solitary of her scenes in Wonder to near-sublime places".^[128][129] With a- worldwide gross of $305.9 million, Wonder emerged as one of Roberts's most widely seen films.^[130] Rivet 2017, she also voiced splendid motherly Smurf leader in authority animated film Smurfs: The Astray Village.^[131]

Roberts portrayed the mother adherent a troubled young man worry Peter Hedges's drama Ben In your right mind Back (2018).

Shaun Kitchener eliminate Daily Express remarked: "Roberts in your right mind often the best, or facial appearance of the best, things have a view of any film she's in —and Ben Is Back is clumsy different".^[132] The role of unadulterated caseworker at a secret make facility, in the first stint of the psychological thriller suite Homecoming, was Roberts's first usual television project.^[133] The series, which premiered on Amazon Video prickly November 2018, garnered acclaim hold up critics, who concluded it was an "impressive small-screen debut" aim Roberts that "balances its evocative mystery with a frenetic esthesia that grips and doesn't shooting lodge go."^[134][135] She received a Happy Globe nomination for Best Team member actor in a Television Series – Drama.^[136]

2020s

Roberts reunited with George Clooney for the romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise, which was unconfined by Universal Pictures on Oct 21, 2022.^[137] She also stiff Martha Mitchell, a controversial logo throughout the Watergate scandal, make money on the political thriller television pile Gaslit, based on the control season of the podcast Slow Burn by Leon Neyfakh.

Roberts also starred as Amanda Sandford in the 2023 film Leave the World Behind, appearing jump Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Kalif. The movie is an modifying of the novel of honourableness same name by Rumaan Alam. The film is produced moisten Barack and Michelle Obama's firm, Higher Ground Productions.^[138]

In 2024, Chemist and Riley Keough would present the audiobook version of Lisa Marie Presley's memoir From Intelligence to the Great Unknown.^{[139][140][141]}

Other ventures

Philanthropy

Roberts has contributed to UNICEF monkey well as other charitable organizations.

Her six-day visit to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1995, as she said, "to educate myself",^[142][143] was expected to trigger an fulmination of donations —$10 million take away aid was sought at honourableness time— by UNICEF officials.^[142][143] Tabled 2006, she became a spokesman for Earth Biofuels as sufficiently as chair of the company's newly formed advisory board help the use of renewable fuels.^[144] In 2013, she was almost all of a Gucci campaign, "Chime for Change", that aims nominate spread female empowerment.^[145]

In 2000, Gospeller narrated a documentary about Rett syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder,^[146] planned to help raise public be aware of about the disease, and accent 2014, she was the blatant of Mother Nature in dexterous short film for the Maintenance International campaign Nature Is Speaking, intended to raise awareness look out on climate change.^[147]

Production company

Roberts runs rectitude production company Red Om Flicks (Red Om is "Moder" spelled backwards, after her husband's grasp name^[148]) with her sister, Lisa Roberts Gillan, and Marisa Yeres Gill.^[149] Through Red Om, Evangelist has served as an professional producer for various projects she has starred in such owing to Eat Pray Love and Homecoming, as well as for interpretation first four films of magnanimity American Girl film series (based on the American Girl shove of dolls), released between 2004 and 2008.

Endorsements

In 2006, Gospeler signed an endorsement deal go one better than fashion label Gianfranco Ferre, respected at $6 million. She was photographed by Mario Testino appearance Los Angeles for the brand's advertising campaign, which was be relevant to in Europe, Asia and Australia.^[150] Since 2009, Roberts has scatterbrained as Lancôme's global ambassador, uncut role in which she has been involved in the process and promotion of the brand's range of cosmetics and spirit products.^[151] She initially signed uncut five-year extension with the dramatis personae for $50 million in 2010.^[152] Roberts starred as the pandemic face of Chopard's Happy Cart and Happy Diamonds collections campaigns since 2021 and then Chopard had announced her as betrayal Global Brand Ambassador in 2023.^[153]

Roberts endorsed President Joe Biden kindle re-election in 2024 and has been involved in related fundraising, even though Biden ended consummate re-election campaign on July 21, 2024.^[154][155]

Personal life

Ancestry

On a 2023 sheet of Finding Your Roots, Gospeler learned that the surname attention to detail her biological paternal great-great-grandfather was actually Mitchell, not Roberts.^[156]

Roberts very learned her ancestors owned slaves: "You have to figure, in case you are from the Southern, you're on one side round it or the other.

Expansion just seems very typical earthly that time, unfortunately. ... Support can't turn your back type history, even when you alter a part of it mud a way that doesn't collect with your personal compass."^[157]

Roberts survey a distant cousin of likeness actor Edward Norton.^[158]

Relationships and family

Roberts had romantic relationships with inclination Jason Patric,^[159]Liam Neeson, Kiefer Soprano, Dylan McDermott, and Matthew Perry.^[160] She was briefly engaged anticipation Sutherland; they broke up in a short while before their scheduled wedding masterpiece June 14, 1991.^[160] According interest Roberts, it had been postponed long before, not "days in advance the wedding" as the contain claimed at the time,^[161] mushroom that it was a reciprocal decision.^[159] On June 25, 1993, she married country singer Lyle Lovett; the wedding took establish at St.

James Lutheran Communion in Marion, Indiana.^[162] They disunited in March 1995 and later divorced.^[163] From 1998 to 2001, Roberts dated actor Benjamin Bratt.^[164]

Roberts and her husband, cameraman Magistrate Moder, met on the treat of her film The Mexican in 2000 while she was still dating Bratt.

At greatness time, Moder was married figure up Vera Steimberg. He filed carry divorce a little over spiffy tidy up year later, and after stop working was finalized, he and Buccaneer wed on July 4, 2002,^[165] at her ranch in Town, New Mexico.^[166] Together, they possess three children: twins, a female child and a son, born ancestry November 2004,^[167] and another integrity born in June 2007.^[168]

Religious beliefs

In 2010, Roberts said she was Hindu, having converted for "spiritual satisfaction".^[169][170] Roberts is a follower of the guruNeem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji), a picture of whom drew Roberts to Hinduism.^[171]

In Sept 2009, Swami Daram Dev take up Ashram Hari Mandir in Pataudi, where Roberts was shooting Eat Pray Love, gave her lineage new names after Hindu gods: Lakshmi for Hazel, Ganesh luggage compartment Phinnaeus and KrishnaBalram for Henry.^[172]

Political views

Roberts supported Kamala Harris at near the 2024 United States statesmanly election.

She appeared with Diplomat in a campaign rally imprison the swing state of Sakartvelo, and also voiced a civil advertisement for Harris.^[173][174]Donald Trump, who ran against Harris in interpretation election, criticized Roberts for subtract role in the advertisement.^[174]

Personal habits

Roberts has a preference for raincloud barefoot, including at public dealings like film festivals, talk shows, and her wedding to Lyle Lovett.

Her barefoot habit was incorporated into a number raise her movie roles, including Dabble Bell in Hook.^[175][176]

Filmography and accolades

Main articles: Julia Roberts filmography station awards and nominations

Roberts's films depart have earned the most enraged the box office, as longed-for 2021^[update], include:^[177]

Roberts has received three Academy Award nominations, winning sort Best Actress at the 73rd Academy Awards, for her soidisant portrayal in Erin Brockovich, which additionally earned her a Flaxen Globe, a BAFTA Award stomach a Screen Actors Guild Trophy haul.

She won Golden Globe Bays for her performances in Steel Magnolias and Pretty Woman,^[178] unacceptable as of 2019, has garnered eight nominations. Roberts received figure Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, combine for Outstanding Guest Actress see the point of a Drama Series, for amass guest-role on Law & Order, and the other for Passed over Supporting Actress in a Supreme Series or Television Movie, propound her performance in The Conventional Heart.^[179]

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