Life, career, best movies, beautiful actresses.. Julia Roberts
Actress Julia Roberts made her screen debut in the late 1980s television series Crime Story. She starred in Steel Magnolias in 1989, earning an Academy Award nomination for her performance. One of her most iconic roles was in Pretty Woman (1990), with Richard Gere. Roberts eventually went on to win an Oscar for her lead role in Erin Brockovich (2001). She is known for being one of the highest-paid actors and biggest box-office earners in Hollywood.
Early Life
Julia Fiona Roberts was born on October 28, 1967, in Smyrna, Georgia, the youngest of three children and surrounded by creative individuals. Her parents were both actors who ran a workshop for aspiring writers and performers until their divorce in 1971. Initially, Roberts wanted to become a veterinarian, but she abandoned this dream when she realized that she had “an inability to deal with science on a brainiac kind of level.” After graduating from high school in 1985, Roberts moved to New York City to live with her sister, Lisa, who, along with Roberts’s brother, Eric, was pursuing an acting career.
In New York, Roberts also joined the family business, landing a guest appearance on the television series Crime Story in 1987. She really caught the public’s eye, however, as the wild but vulnerable Daisy in Mystic Pizza (1988). The following year, Roberts cemented her status as a rising star in Steel Magnolias (1989), appearing alongside such acting legends as Shirley MacLaine and Sally Field, and earning an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress.
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After that, Roberts’s career took off. She played a hooker who falls in love with a client (Richard Gere) in the box-office hit Pretty Woman (1990). For her convincing performance, Roberts received an Academy Award nomination for best actress. She followed up that role with a few career missteps: Dying Young (1991) received mixed reviews, as did Hook (1991), which revisited the story of Peter Pan. Both films also proved to be disappointments at the box office. Around this same time, Roberts called off her wedding to actor Kiefer Sutherland, her co-star in 1990’s Flatliners, just days before the ceremony was scheduled to take place..
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Mary Reilly (1996) starred Roberts in a decidedly unglamorous role, playing a maid who works for Dr. Jekyll. Audiences were less than enthusiastic about the film. Returning to her image as America’s sweetheart, Roberts dominated the box office with such romantic comedies as My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) with Dermot Mulroney and Notting Hill (1999) with Hugh Grant. Her star appeal even helped draw audiences to the critically panned Runaway Bride, in which Roberts again joined up with her Pretty Woman co-star Gere. In 1997, she starred alongside Mel Gibson and Patrick Stewart in the thriller Conspiracy Theory.
Roberts made a dramatic breakthrough in 2000, delivering a powerful performance as a gutsy, struggling single mom serving as the title character in Erin Brockovich. In the film, which is based on a true story, Erin Brockovich helps lead a fight against a California power company that allegedly poisoned a small town’s water supply. Roberts won several awards for her performance in the project, including her first Oscar. Her $20 million salary for the film was also a Hollywood milestone, making her first woman to receive such a hefty sum.
The following year, Roberts starred in the independent film The Mexican with Brad Pitt and James Gandolfini. While making the movie, she met cameraman Danny Moder. He was married at the time, and Roberts was dating actor Benjamin Bratt. Roberts and Moder became good friends and later embarked upon a romantic relationship after they had split from their respective partners.
Career Success
After Erin Brockovich, Roberts took on some lighthearted roles, appearing in Ocean’s Eleven (2001) and Ocean’s Twelve (2004) alongside Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon and Andy Garcia.
Return to Film
Returning to American cinemas in 2009 with Duplicity, Roberts reunited with her Closer co-star Owen. She explained her two-year absence from the American movie scene to People magazine, saying, “I don’t have the bug to work. I have the bug to make good movies, and those don’t come along very often.” While the film was not a huge hit, critics heralded Roberts’s return. “It is an undeniable thrill to see her again,” wrote Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly.
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In addition to acting, Roberts has worked behind the scenes. She served as an executive producer on the short-lived TV series Queens Supreme (2003) and on TV adaptations of the American Girl stories, including 2008’s Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, starring Abigail Breslin as the title character.
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BEST 10 MOVIES BY ACTRESSES
Runaway Bride
Julia Roberts, Richard Gere
Released: 1999
Directed by: Garry Marshall
The Pelican Brief
Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington
Released: 1993
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Dying Young
Julia Roberts, Ellen Burstyn
Released: 1991
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
My Best Friend’s Wedding
Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney
Released: 1997
Directed by: P. J. Hogan
Sleeping with the Enemy
Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin
Released: 1991
Directed by: Joseph Ruben
Stepmom
Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon
Released: 1998
Directed by: Chris Columbus
Steel Magnolias
Sally Field, Dolly Parton
Released: 1989
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Notting Hill
Julia Roberts, Alec Baldwin
Released: 1999
Directed by: Roger Michell
Erin Brockovich
Julia Roberts, Marg Helgenberger
Released: 2000
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Ocean’s Eleven
Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts
Released: 2001
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
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