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Julia Roberts One of the Most Beloved Actresses in Hollywood 1967-

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You can he true to the character all you want, hut you’ve got to go home with yourself.
—JULIA ROBERT;,

ad Julia Roberts followed up on her childhood dream, film enthusiasts might never have known such captivating characters as Darby Shaw (The Pelican Brief), Vivian Ward (Pretty Woman), or Shelby Eateiiton Latcherie (Steel Magnolias). Nor might such real-life characters as Erin Brockovich (in the film by the same name) be quite as memorable. Julia Roberta’s childhood dream was to be a veterinarian. To the delight of her fans, who have made Julia Roberts one of the most beloved actresses in Hollywood, her dream never came true.
Julie Fiona Roberts was born to Betty and Walter (”Rob”) Roberts on October 28, 1967, in Smyrna, Georgia. Betty was a church secretary, and Rob was a vacuum-cleaner salesman. Julie had two older siblings: Eric, born in 1956, and Lisa, born in 1965 (a half-sister, Nancy Motes, was born in 1976).
When Julie was four, Rob and Betty divorced. After Julie graduated from Campbell High School in 1985, she moved to New York City to live with her sister Lisa. She launched a modeling career and began getting small acting parts. In 1986 Julia (who had changed her first name from Julie because there was another actress by that name) made her film debut in Blood Red. Her brother, Eric, already an established actor, was starring in the movie.
Julia landed her first major film role in 1988, appearing with Liam Neeson in Satisfaction. She was next cast as one of a trio of restless, small-town pizza shop girls in Mystic Pizza (1988). Julia’s good looks and bright smile quickly drew attention, and she became part of the ensemble cast of Steel Magnolias (1989), costarring with Shirley MacLame, Sally Field, Dolly Parton, and Daryl Hannah. Roberts’s striking portrayal of a diabetic young mother earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
The character that vaulted Roberts to superstardom, however, was an unlikely one: in 1990 she played a Hollywood prostitute who falls in love with one of her clients, a millionaire business executive (Richard Gere), in Pretty Woman (1990). The highest-earning movie of 1990, Pretty Woman garnered more than $ 100 million, and it made Roberts an international star. She won a Golden Globe Award and obtained another Academy Award nomination.
Her next few films, however, were disappointments. In 1990 she costarred with Kiefer Sutherland in Flatlmers, and in 1991 she played a wife being stalked by a possessive husband in Sleeping with the Enemy (1991). Other unsuccessful movies followed: Steven Spielberg’s Hook (1991), with Dustin Hoffman; Dying Young (1991); and Robert Altman’s The Player (1992).
Roberts fared better in the 1993 film The Pelican Brief, based on the best-seller of the same name by John Grisham. The actress played Darby Shaw, a law student who teams with investigative reporter Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington) to untangle a htigc tobacco-industry conspiracy. Her next three films, Pret-a-Porter {Ready to Wear (1994)], Something to Talk About (1995), and Everyone Says I Love You (1996) were relatively successful, although some critics believed Roberta’s energetic style was squandered.
In 1996 Roberts tried her hand at historical films. She held the title role in the thriller Mary Reilly (opposite John Malkovich playing Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde) and played Kitty Kiernan in Michael Collins, a tale about the controversial Irish revolutionary (starring Liam Nceson). Mary Reilly pleased most audiences despite its grim atmosphere, but it collected mixed reviews.
Roberts regained her superstar status in 1997 when she appeared in the hit comedy My Best Friend’s Wedding. The film, in which she costarred with Cameron Diaz and Dermot Mulroney, returned Roberts to box-office gold by earning more than $100 million—the first of her movies to do so since Pretty Woman. She made two more movies. Conspiracy Theory (1997) and Stepmom (1998), before starring in two smash hits: the romantic comedies NottingHill and Runaway Bride (both 1999). In the latter Roberts reunited with Pretty Woman costar Richard Gere and director Garry Marshall—a combination that was even more successful than it had been the first time. Runaway Bride earned $300 million in the United States alone.
Julia Roberts was now not only one of the most popular actresses in America, but she was also one of the most bankable. In 2000 she received a record $20 million—the highest salary ever paid to a screen actress—to star in Erin Brockovich. The film, about a true-life legal secretary who discovers and exposes a major environmental scandal in a Califotnia power company, was hugely popular and received glowing critical reviews. For her performance in the title role, Roberts won the coveted Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as many other prestigious Best Actress honors, including a Golden Globe and a British Academy Award. She received her seventh People’s Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture Actress, as well as the London Film Critics Circle Award.
In 2001 Roberts returned to her most successful film vehicle, the romantic comedy. She starred with Brad Pitt in the crime caper The Mexican and with John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Billy Crystal in America’s Sweethearts. She also played Contessa “Tess” Ocean as part of an all-star cast that included George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, and Carl Reiner in Ocean’s Eleven. The film, which one critic called “a criminally stylish return to cool,” was a remake of the popular 1960 movie starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Angie Dickinson. The actress’s upcoming films include Full Frontal and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. She will also appear in Mona Lisa Smile, scheduled for release in 2003.
Roberts divides her free time between her ranch in Taos, New Mexico, and her home in New York City. Her continuing appeal is evident in the many noncritical awards she has garnered. She has won a string of People’s Choice Awards and has been named one of El’s “Top 20 Entertainers.” She was twice included in People magazine’s list of the “50 Most Beautiful People in the World.” Active in charity work, especially with the TJNICEF organization, Roberts has made a number of goodwill visits to countries such as Haiti and India.
Calling herself an “utterly average total geek,” she explains that despite the glamour and stardom, she is in many ways very much like her fans. “I sit on the [movie] set and knit,” she says. “I love to go to movies and I eat tons of popcorn. … I love my soap operas. . . . I’m the Hoover [vacuum] at the dinner table. . . . If there’s thirty people in a room, I’ll be one of the top-three kookiest. I have a tendency to just say anything and not edit myself!”

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