Julia Roberts is a famous actress born in Smyrna, Georgia in 1967. She moved to New York to pursue a career in modeling and acting. Her breakthrough role was in Pretty Woman in 1990. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for Erin Brokovich in 2001. She has also had personal relationships with famous men and is married to cinematographer Danny Moder with whom she has three children.
Julia Roberts is one of the highest paid and best known actresses in the world. She was born in the small town of Smyrna, Georgia in 1967; Her older brother is fellow actor Eric Roberts, who recently appeared on the TV show Heroes. After attending college at the University of Georgia, Julia Roberts moved to New York to pursue a career in modeling and acting. Her first major film role was as a sick Southern young woman in Steel Magnolias, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 1990, Julia Roberts played the part of a beautiful prostitute who falls in love with a client, played by Richard Gere, in the hit film Pretty Woman. The role made Julia Roberts a household name and earned her another Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress. She played roles in many blockbuster films throughout the remainder of the 1990s, including My Best Friend’s Wedding, Notting Hill, and Runaway Bride. Julia Roberts also experimented with roles in more serious films, but they weren’t as successful. For better or for worse, Julia Roberts was more loved by audiences as a female romantic lead.
In 2001, Julia Roberts stepped away from the romantic lead she was associated with to play a paralegal who helped bring down a major energy company in Erin Brokovich, for which she won a Best Actress Academy Award. In the years since, she has played a more diverse selection of roles in films such as Closer and Ocean’s Eleven. In 2006, Julia Roberts made her Broadway debut in a play called Three Days of Rain, but her performance was heavily criticized.
Julia Roberts is as famous for her personal life as she is for her film performances. Over the years, she dated a variety of famous men, including actors Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Liam Neeson and Benjamin Bratt, and country singer Lyle Lovett, to whom she was briefly married. In 2002, Julia Roberts married cinematographer Danny Moder, whom she met on the set of her film, The Mexican. In 2004 she gave birth to twins Hazel and Phinnaeus Moder; their third child is expected in July 2007.
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